sticklefifer posted:

I was on a now-defunct indie music label's forum a long time ago, and an admin got called out for banning certain slurs like "human being", but having no problem with "retarded" and using it frequently himself. From what I later learned, he had a reputation for becoming extremely butthurt over being called out for anything at all. So in an effort to overcompensate he banned all supposedly "ableist" words like lame, dumb, and spaz because they were once commonly used to refer to disabilities. Then it went further. No more saying crazy/insane/psycho. No more idiot/stupid. No more weird. That might alienate someone.

User posting dropped swiftly due to the restriction of language and harsh punishments. Someone later discovered that in his massive censorship sweep for abusive language, he banned everything else but still forgot to ban the word "retarded" that started the whole debacle.