[lusis]

We had a discussion about the original blog post over on IRC.

I'm not going to tone down my talks (unless it's inappropriate for the audience) but I normally won't include it in a slide. There's a difference for me verbally and putting it down "on paper".

I want people to pass around my slide decks. A slide deck full of vulgarity is probably not going to get passed around. However I probably cussed like a sailor during the same presentation.

[gchucky]

Can you link to the original blog post? I (and some other people, I'd wager) are out of the loop on this one.

[fbuilesv]

Zach Holman (the author of this post) uploaded his slides for a talk he gave at a Ruby conference a couple of weeks ago. Some people, including Scott Hanselman, complained about talks including profanities (especifically the word "fucking" in a slide).

The blog post by Hanselman is here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProfanityDoesntWork.aspx

Zach Holman slides are here: http://zachholman.com/talk/a-documentation-talk

[jeremya]

There was also a blog post by Rob Conery here: http://wekeroad.com/2011/11/08/some-people-not-have-way

And the HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212694