Well, if only I counted the number of times that my posts were edited or deleted in MD, I would not have any time to do any bona fide work in
Java forums here. Over the years (yeah, it took me that long), I became more familiar with the
real MD rules, -- they are more about look and feel, rather than the rigid boundaries. I think I managed a straight year or so without being sensored, -- I guess you could say that I've been institutionalized by Javaranch.
I also realized that the vaguely specified MD rules actually work. True, some people get upset when censored, but it's not hard to see where some of the discussions would lead if allowed all degrees of freedom. If I were to summarise the MD rules in a figurative way, it would be "feel free to use the
word forms of the word
fuck, but don't use it as a verb".