Board Thread:Help!/@comment-43874324-20200702151414/@comment-45692830-20200703174957

I'll note that I'm one of the people here who's perhaps more sympathetic to the "intent" line of argument than anyone else - I just don't think you can be willfully ignorant of consequences and must consider them as well in order to properly characterize the statement you're making. So it's actually defensible, just, being deployed far overzealously.

The thing is, even if it's defensible in general, I think it's clear that "intent" for usage of a slur cannot be the metric seized upon by this wiki. Simply because authorial intent is used as a last resort of sorts here and we'll have a contradiction on how to handle intent. Or, alternatively, T:NPA (obviously my favorite policy on this wiki) says that we should "Maintain a civil atmosphere towards fellow users at all times". Perhaps the "towards users" clause won't follow, but it doesn't matter about intent as to whether or not this is met if a user scrolling through this site is hit with a slur, they'll still feel like it's an uncivil atmosphere.

(Just as an aside, I noticed T:NPA doesn't mention ableism though it does mention ageism. Is there a specific real world event in the wiki's history that led to that?)

So I think it's clear that regardless of what you think about people being "overly sensitive" in general, or in your personal life, for the wiki's rules to be consistent some sort of action has to be taken.