Not only are they at best moronic, they're also absolutely pointless and serve only to clog up the forums which are ostensibly about World of Warcraft and not about random racism, sexism, crude representations of bias or raw sexual discourse. The forum guidelines even clearly state that these kinds of things are forbidden. Blizzard is not running a BBS or a message board dedicated to the free and open exchange of ideas here, even including hateful ones, they're running a forum for discussion of the game. This isn't a freedom of speech issue because there's no guarantee of free and open speech in a privately owned forum with a stated goal. While I appreciate that Blizzard isn't draconian in their moderation, I'd have to say that it could use some tightening up - I would personally have much less trouble with some of the speech here if it was being expressed in a post that had anything at all to do with the game, but my personal tastes here aren't important. Blizzard has already set the bar for what's acceptable and what's not, and it seems that a great many posters can't seem to bear to abide by it.

I can't see how some of these posts could ever be germane to the discussion of WoW, and in that case I think they should go post-haste. I'm okay with shocking, harsh or even crude speech personally, but I recognize that in this case it serves no useful purpose at all and isn't in any way protected on a privately owned forum used to help promote discussion of the game. If moderation is the only way to prevent this kind of nonsense, then I find myself rather unhappily supporting the idea of increasing the amount of it on the forums.