Exactly my feeling too. Insulting is relative and subjective. Mods become judge jury executioner on whatever he don't like.
You call a down syndrome person retarded is ok, you call him normal, some will say you are sarcastic. You call a normal person retarded is insulting.
The meaning of words also change over time. What is not insulting today might be insulting tomorrow. Isis in the past is a korean drama, a toyota car brand and even some girl name. Today you say label isis here you kena frown upon.
English word play is too complicated for us to moderate. You call vijay a dog might get you ban. What if you call a dog vijay? Is it insulting the dog or vijay? Is that making use of gray area or loophole?
Then there is also the babara streisand effect. You ignore those acronyms, maybe nothing happen. You ban it, people start searching the meaning etc etc. You banning it gives focus on the issue.
Lastly regarding censorship, my opinion is why bother. You can censor edmw, can you censor the internet? Afraid of kids landing on edmw? Thats the job of their responsible parents. You as edmw mods cannot prevent the xdd or xmm from googling atbd*****. Thats the job for parents.
Anyway my 2 cents
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