Swearing Rule

For most of its existence, Jiggmin's Village had rather strict swearing rules which often came at odds with its members. 
==Background==
The forum originally didn't have a swear filter unlike Jiggmin's online games.
This changed in October 2008 after a user named Blindi joined."JV Historical Reference Guide". Acid Forums. August 2015. A normal member at first, he introduced JV to the f-bomb after a few posts. He began swearing, flamming and spamming everywhere while the mods initially didn't punish him. Eventually he was given a permanent ban. Blindi started using proxies however, creating several spamming accounts until he stuck with "HahahahahaH". After a long period of him getting away with everything, the mods banned HaH. He continued making more ban evasion alts for several months, including BlindiTroll, Troll, StopIt, Seriously, Unbannable, all to annoy the community.
The incident resulted in Jiggmin adding a swear filter to the forum, replacing letters in them with a "*".
==Controversy==
The filter grew increasingly controversial as years passed and more words were added to it. Dislike towards it exasperated for causing innocent words to be partially censored (most infamously "suspicious").
An announcement was issued in March 2012 reminding people of words that weren't allowed, which included unfiltered ones like "asshole". A number of members disagreed with a few choices on the list, most notably "idiot". This lead Clifford to create a thread discussing them./threads/80258-The-JV-Profanity-Rule < (Now lost) Eventually Jiggmin decided to try an experiment: all swears would be allowed for a week as long as they weren't directed at someone else.
The experiment was a success, to the surprise of most, and the filter was then limited to 4 words. 3 were offensive slurs, while Jiggmin also included the f-bomb due to his personal dislike of it."Forum swearingz". Jiggmin's Village. March 23, 2012. A 5th word was later added in 2013.
==References==
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