In my opinion, no word should, in and of itself, be banned. Using a word, any word should be okay... However using words, regardless of what they are, to harass should not be acceptable.

In Austraila, as I am to understand from friends of mine, that the word "cunt" is regularly used in public. In the US you would be scorned for this. The mixing of many cultures is an important aspect of any online community. What is acceptable in place is taboo in another.

I will put this simply. The options are limited. There is not enough manpower to search for true context of every situation. Banning certain words is useless without an automated system. So why don't we get a forum filter to filter out profanity? I personally don't think that would help much. People would still be just as mean, but they would be more verbose about it.