Proposed Alteration to Forum Rules

[Existentialist]

Let me clear something up for you; freedom of expression means you can discuss your ideas / beliefs here openly and freely, with no censorship. Whilst some people may wish to use their own custom dictionaries (although goodness knows why they would), we ask that in the interests of better communication, people stick to words that are defined by dictionaries that already exist.

It is quite simple.

Thanks for that reply Adrian. It certainly does clear that up for me. If it really had been that simple all along, I don't think you'd have felt the need to accuse me 3 times of 'trolling' when I insisted on using the word "misquote" rather than "paraphrase" in the Capitalism is a Religion thread. Your repeated but baseless allegations of trolling not unreasonably led me to think that an act of censorship might have been imminent at the time. It's good that you've finally made a statement supporting freedom of expression, though I think if this were embedded in the rules it would be even better.

Edit: Additionally, if you really are that annoyed by us constantly berating you for redefining words in discussions, have you ever considered not doing it?

If you've decided to play a game in which you paint a picture of me "constantly" redefining words I don't suppose there's much I can do about it. It's not true, of course. So once we had an argument about the meaning of the word atheism. Big deal. The meaning of atheism was the point of the thread.

The word atheism has conflicting definitions anyway, which I don't think the Hayter-Braeloch scale resolves, but there you go. You did ask for feedback.