Personally I think the words "nigger" and "nigga" should not cause a kneejerk reaction. Although of course it can be used extremely offensively and is associated strongly to a terrible period of history - this does not mean that everyone using the word is a bad user or is trying to be aggresive/offensive. In my opinion as staff we should use some common sense and context to deem whether or not the user was using the word in a deliberately offensive or abusive manner. The simple fact is anyone on the internet will come across the word and censoring it would be a futile act, the same is true of the word "faggot" which is certainly a controversial word, comparably so to the word "nigger".


- The word should not be blacklisted, context should be used to deem deliberate offense/ aggression


Of course the word should be avoided, but there is no need for it to be blacklisted