[thelist] Response to Site Critique - Woggz.com

[aardvark]

> From: Paul Peterson <paul at woggz.com>
[...]
> I'll have to seriously reconsider the name, which SUCKS because of all
> the hassle involved. If anybody has a helpful idea on this, send it my
> way.

don't forget that you didn't know, and you don't mean anything by 
it... if anything, you're preventing some hate group from grabbing 
it... you're also disconnecting that word from it's offensive 
meaning...

if you do keep it, don't even acknowledge the other meaning... don't 
give someone the satisfaction, or be someone who perpetuates 
derogatory words even by trying to explain you didn't mean it...

i understand all the political correctness concerns, but dumping it 
only perpetuates the hateful interpretation of the word... keeping it 
allows you to assign a new meaning (and value) to it...

besides, does your site have an audience that is generally familiar 
with that term?  i've seen foreign sites use words americans would 
find inappropriate... i don't get offended because i'm smart enough 
to know that slang is different from one street to the next, let alone 
country to country...

keep it...