[meichenf]

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[zanethomas]

I would say it to his face, but point taken. :)

[colejohnson66]

Fair enough, but just because you'd say it to someone's face doesn't make it civil

[zanethomas]

But here's the problem with censorship (which you have said the previous writer should impose upon himself):

I consider what Facebook is doing to be far more uncivil than use of the word Fuck. Should the word Facebook be censored because what it refers to offends me?