I've never understood the rationale some people have that by asking others to express their ideas, thoughts, and opinions without the use of profanity I am censoring their right to free speech.
Likewise, if Steemit fails to curtail abusive, threatening, and toxic individuals it will also drive away the broader audience leaving only those with skin thick enough to take the abuse of trolls.
You're telling them to not use certain words.
They don't like being told what they can or cannot say.
I see, I worded that badly compared to what I was thinking. I should have said that "without the use of profanity I am promoting censorship."
I don't see people writing a blog post as being abusive if they are not targeting a person and calling them an idiot or defaming them. You can be abusive without using any profanity. In fact I can do a far better job of calling a person a name and belittling them without profanity than I can with it. It simply takes a little effort. My post doing such though would still be hostile and abusive.
There has been the occasional post that I've come across that I would term as using excessive foul language, those usually fall under attacks on other users or groups. I agree it's not abusive for users to write anything they want in their own posts or blog as long as there's no attack on a person or group.
I was thinking more about those taking offense to being asked to refrain from excessive foul language in comments. This is what I consider part of being a "toxic" individual as they don't respect other users or the user's blogs. I don't see this as a particularly large issue on steemit.com currently. There have been a few individuals that have 'tested' the waters so to speak.
A user visits a blog and uses foul language to express their opinion on the topic of the post in comments, or they post offensive memes relevant to the posts topic. I think asking other users to respect each other's blogs is not unreasonable nor is it censorship.
This is just a random thought I had from reading your comment. Someone I used to know, said that he got a lot of joy out of formulating responses that called another person who was verbally abusive an idiot without them even realizing it.