Over the years, I have found incredible value lurking on this board, and the experience has improved considerably since its split from IC. Most of the credit for this goes to Rock and nycfan, who have made this board what it is.
One of the ways it has improved is that, while I don't have a view of how the sausage is made behind the scenes, there seems to be a lighter touch applied during moderation. For that to continue, we have to self-moderate ourselves, and make sure that our internet squabbles don't have a corrosive effect on the threads and the board overall.
So if the key moderator reminds us of our collective responsibility, the collective reaction should be, "Yup - you're right - got it going forward." Independent of whether we can use curse words, etc.
They key issue here is how we react to one (maybe more) troll who has already posted on this thread. The best way to treat a troll has always been that you starve him from the attention he craves. If you feel the need to respond to this person in a less than decorous way, please consider using super-ignore instead. Doing so is not a sign of weak character, but rather an assertion that the overall tenor of the board improves for all if we simply don't respond to the chum.
