Vox posted a fun entry about his own cuss-o-meter score. With an average of 10%, his blog came well under at 6.2 percent cussing. I tested TuscanyCircle and we came up with 0.3%. So, I turned on the word filter, a module I've had for a while but hadn't used yet. I filtered out 3 or 4 of the more popular cuss words, and TuscanyCircle's score dropped to 0%. (The originally intended words should generally be pretty obvious.)

My own self-scored ICRA rating (see footer) notes the use of expletives. Given such word-filtering is not particularly effective at erasing the intended effect of cussing, I'm not inclined to loosen up my ICRA rating. I've rated TuscanyCircle on the cautious side, to give concerned parents the benefit of the doubt in their efforts to keep their children's prying eyes from offensive material.

Having said and done this, I definitely do not intend to imply in any way that the content on TuscanyCircle is anything less than offensive. After all, if you're stupid, you're gonna be offended here.

There is a way to rate blog content on its offensiveness--it's an additional module I could add to TuscanyCircle allowing readers to rate articles themselves. However, I don't desire to remove the offense from the site. An in-your-face style (which is easily avoided by surfing away) is sometimes what it takes to wake the slow-witted from their intellectual stupor or spiritual malaise.