@AsafKaragila Not defending... just stating the facts ma'am. :-)

@AsafKaragila Actually, the chicken version is there in the thread :-) And also, I heard that it was in Big Bang Theory. So I guess it was already field tested. :-)

@Lucia Could you say more precisely what "adjusting for number of upvotes of the relevant answer" should mean? The miniskirt joke has more than 50 upvotes, but I am not comfortable seeing if 50 flags accumulate before taking it down.

@YemonChoi Yes, MO contains multitudes. Internally what I keep coming back to is what it might feel like being a woman reading stuff like this (cf. Elizabeth Henning's comment under one of the posts we're discussing). According to many women these sorts of little incidents are pervasive and oh so tiresome that a certain degree of fatigue sets in; Izabella Laba once wrote a long and eloquent screed on why she's not interested in MO. I'm not completely deaf to PC concerns, but I also think takes little effort to see the problem with some of these posts. Take it on a case by case basis.

I'll add, also for the sake of balance, that one of the best (or at least highly upvoted) jokes I ever made on MO was just a bit off-color, and I admit I'd sorta be sad to see it deleted. [I won't say what it was, but I think it'd be a stretch to consider it anti-woman.]

@YemonChoi "that in private joking with friends I would use rather different language than I do on here" ... me too, and really that's my entire point. In private with people I know well, I may use pretty coarse language, but in public I would certainly avoid that and I think that's appropriate. This point seems so utterly obvious that I'm have difficulty understanding a backlash to preserve certain sex jokes with more than a little wink-wink nudge-nudge element to them, in a public forum ostensibly dedicated to professional interests.

(Alas, if the Moebius stripper joke-maker had instead started with "Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?", then we wouldn't need to have this conversation!)

@AsafKaragila MO is not really like knocking on your office neighbor's door; it's more like knocking with thousands of people watching. You can use four-letter words in a private conversation, moderating their use as seems fit, but I don't think you would use them here because you know very well that lots of people find that distasteful (and they will be flagged and removed). "As long as nobody is offended": No doubt that many women (and some men too) are offended, but far fewer have the audacity to say so -- many will try to shrug it off, with a mixture of irritation and resignation.

Do I really need to say that MO has no plans to censor terms established in the literature? What we're primarily discussing here are (IMO mostly lame) jokes that are intentionally sexually tinged. I don't think any of the terms you mention fall under that category, and honestly I find this a little alarmist in tone.

So far I don't think the last two meet the threshold.

@GetOffTheInternet One likely scenario is that the 'real' Aknazar, having been outed, claims that someone he knows has hacked his account and is maliciously using it to frame him. Then the same Aknazar creates this entity who has it in for him, thereby justifying the claim.

@Glator So on July 22 if I read correctly.

I deleted the question.

@StefanKohl She says she deleted an account here mathoverflow.net/questions/333967/…. The thing is, site moderators are not able to merge accounts, so our ability to help is slightly limited although we can perhaps escalate attention to Community Management if she wants. And without an ID number, it's hard to track down the history of an account. So I'm afraid I can't answer your question.

@StevenLandsburg Yeah. I've now got some Community Management looking at the case, and we're pretty much in agreement with what's going on. Meanwhile, a very large number of accounts have been deleted.

Hi: mathoverflow.net/users/141869/phd