The swearing filter on DDO should be removed

BOPMy opponent and I seem to agree on his BOP. This means he has to prove that it is a particular obstacle to something - apparently his ability to enjoy the site - and that it must be a high priority to remove it. My opponent's contentions:C1: DDO is a wreckThis is mostly irrelevant to the resolution. My opponent is more than welcome to have feelings about things, but this contention is unproven, and also doesn't mean a thing to the actual resolution. I'm really quite confused about my opponent's approach here in his round as he appears to be gish galloping about entirely unrelated things that don't have anything to do with the resolution. My opponent concludes this contention with "Fun debating on this website is dead. "It's all well and good that my opponent feels this way but A) it has nothing to do with the resolution, B) it certainly has nothing to do with the curse filter and C) It's just how my opponent feels, he can't prove it. Let's assume my opponent feelings are accurate, something he has entirely failed to prove to any degree, but let's assume it for a moment. He says he used to enjoy the site, but now he doesn't. This proves that my opponent's contention is inaccurate because the curse filter existed when he enjoyed the site, and it still exists. Therefore the curse filter has nothing to do with anything related to this contention and is entirely irrelevant. Contention negated. C2: Rules are the main causeThe rules related to voting have nothing to do with the resolution, so we can ignore that immediately. More importantly, there aren't strict rules about profanity. My opponent will admit that I am not very strict about profanity, and no one is being banned for mere casual usage of profanity on occasion. So, this contention is again irrelevant to the resolution. The rules about profanity have been the same from the time my opponent joined the site until now, and the filter has existed during that entire time. So again, the filter has nothing to do with my opponent's tangential argument about his feelings, and it has nothing to do with effecting his fun, since it's been a static part of the site during the entire time he has been a member. Contention negated. C3: The Swearing Filter is RidiculousMy opponent is framing the ridiculous aspect of this incorrectly. I think it's ridiculous that we are even debating this. The filter does pretty much nothing, and effects alomost nothing practical. It literally doesn't prevent you from expressing yourself in any way, and if my opponent had fun on the site at one point with its existence, clearly the fact that it still exists isn't the cause of him not having fun now. My opponent can point to whatever he'd like for that reason, but it's not the filter, as I have irrefutably proven. I'd like to make it clear that I don't think it's ridiculous that it exists. Even if I am lax on profanity I'd like members to have to go that extra step to be less than thoughtful. You can't just use profanity, you have to go out of your way to censor your profanity, and thus you have taken that extra step to make it clear you thought about it, and decided to express yourself in that particular way. The filter doesn't prevent profanity, but it creates a "self shaming" dynamic that forces people to at least give a moments thought to dismiss expressing them self in a more thoughtful manner. The filter therefore serves a purpose and is not ridiculous. Removing it would be though, because it would be pointless to do so. Contention negated. C4: Solve the problem: Reduce Rules, Promote Free SpeechThe filter isn't a rule per se', it's a site feature. It's supposed to encourage everyone to be more thoughtful in the way they communicate. Encouraging a less thoughtful approach is the problem, and I think actually reflects an attitude that is more problematic on the site lately, and may actually be a root of many of the sites problems that my opponent and others have, and that is the possible decreasing maturity level of the site's membership. We should not give in to the "low road DDO" that my opponent urges us to accept. Fight against the "DDO low road", Vote Con! My opponent furthermore decides to belittle the concept of free speech by invoking it here. Free speech is about being able to express yourself freely and substantively (in this context). I don't want to get into a whole FoS discussion here (since I'm skipping much that can be said), but the bottom line is that you are free to discuss pretty much whatever you like, and being inconvenienced with your use of profanity belittles FoS, and demeans us all in perpetuity throughout the universe. Contention negated. C5: People who swear aren't stupidI never said this at any point, in any place, ever, in the entire universe, and this strawman is poor conduct by my opponent. My point was that casual profanity reflects a lack of maturity, and a lack of ability to express oneself in a proper fashion. Whatever point you are trying to make with use of profanity, can easily be made without it. Certainly expletives have some purpose at certain times (I'm not saying I don't ever curse), and the filter really doesn't prevent that - but there is a time and place for it. Strawman negated. C6: This debate is not just about swearingThe resolution mostly is. If you wanted to debate something else you should have made it about something else. I understand the broader point, but we are debating about the filter, and the filter isn't preventing you from having fun. You used to have fun and the filter was around, and now you aren't having fun and the filter is still around, so it's obviously something else. If my opponent wanted to debate other rules, that are actually, you know, rules, then he should have challenged me to that debate. Instead he has made mostly irrelevant arguments in his round, and insists that I debate him about something else. I wont do that, this is about the curse filter, and to this point my opponent has failed to show why the filter should be a high priority to remove for any reason whatsoever. Attempt to change what we are supposed to be debating, negated. C7: TimeMy opponent would like us to accept that his feelings are facts, and I think we are all able to recognize that we shouldn't do so. My opponent makes many claims here that are entirely unbacked up with anything other than statements of his feelings, and while that is fine, it doesn't go anywhere close to establishing the resolution. My opponent's conclusion:My opponent makes the argument that we should return to the "Wild West" days of DDO. Firstly, my opponent was never on the site when it was like that. If he had fun when he first arrived, then it wasn't due to its anarchic nature. Secondly, my opponent is once again expressing his feelings here, which is fine, but it doesn't have anything specifically to do with the filter. All of my opponents Contentions 1 through 7, have been negated, and even on their own, don't carry his BOP. My contentions C1-C4 were never rebutted at any point, in any way, whatsoever. Conclusion:I understand that my opponent has feelings, and feelings are great. He's bored with the site, and I get that. But it doesn't have anything to do with the curse filter. The filter has existed the entire time he has been on the site, so it can NOT possibly have anything to do with my opponent's only argument, which is that he's bored with the site and that it has something to do with the curse filter. Arguments about other things causing him to dislike the site (other rules) can and MUST be ignored, since they have nothing to do with this debate or its resolution.