'Baby talk' in chat

[Omni]

It's just, Rape jokes, trans jokes, those are mocking peoples suffering and that's why they are wrong. And gross out humor has the issue of making people sick and the perverse humor makes this site unfriendly to younger audiences. These I understand.

But banning terms relating to affection... I know we do it a lot but, this seems more born out of intolerance than anything.

You could say the same about any kind of intolerance, it's just the opposite end of the scale. If a couple is eating their faces in a public place, and you tell them to get a room, is that intolerance/censorship? I guess in a way? But the chatbox needs some regulation. If someone wants to rant about something potentially divisive and controversial I will often tell them the chatbox isn't the place.

In the context of those jokes, often times they are just jokes and not intended to offend anyone. But they might. That's censorship, straight up, and I've been told so by people who think I'm the next coming of Hitler. Sure, they're right, it's censorship. Buuut it has reasons.