Just for the sake of discussion: if those two words are the title and initial subject of the thread, that's a little different from what you're implying. If the thread had stayed on topic, instead of going into whimsy, it couldn't have been about anything else but fucking stumps, which as has been noted is a crass, nasty and potentially offensive idea at worst; Beavis and Butt-Head gross-out at best.
Assuming we actually know what the topic is, which I'm not sure we do - hence the dendrophilia jokes, etc. We can't go about deleting threads on the grounds that vaguely unpleasant-sounding titles could signify unpleasant topics in the mind of the topic-starter - which, if remaining on topic, could have gone on to become thoroughly unpleasant discussions.
If we're deciding that unpleasantness has become offensiveness to the extent that thread lock/delete is being employed, at the very least there needs to be some sort of discussion of why something's seen as offensive, who it's offending and who's deciding the level of offensiveness merits moderator intervention. |
