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Post by Tilly on Dec 2, 2005 0:57:01 GMT -5
Either way, this has really gone off topic. Try PMing one of the admins to discuss the word filter, since us mods can't mess with it.
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Post by Yurei Avalon on Dec 2, 2005 6:05:43 GMT -5
Celebmacil I am going to ask you to stop now, it's degenerating into a flame and i'd rather not have to do anything 'firm'. I will talk to Phenotype about the word filter, as he, Jryu and Tyrann Fuhrer are the only ones who can edit it, and that's clearly his 'humor' there.
Personally I think it's a lot easier to just censor it to something like s**t or such.
But at any rate, we do have a lot of younger users on this forum and we try to make it a family environment. We go by what offends the majority of people if we can, and for 1 person to not be offended by a word and 90% of everyone else to be... well, the majority wins. I don't know the amount of people who would be offended by it but, it's likely high enough that it and other words have to be filtered unfortunately.
The possibilities for getting around the word filter are endless. Just putting a word in [ ] throws it off. Leet and other things as you've said would as well. Although leet isn't allowed on here either. But in short, this makes it very difficult for us to censor EVERYTHING. We censor the proper English version here because everyone here minus a few people uses proper English per the forum rules. If anyone's going to start looking for ways around the filter to swear regularly and effectively, then chances are they're a troll or troublemaker and going to get banned soon.
31 year old war vet or not, you have to remember that you ARE on a forum with young'uns and we have to keep it in an environment acceptable to them. I tend to swear a lot as well by nature but, I just substitue it for another word or deal with it, i'm afraid you'll have to do the same.
Again, I will talk to an admin about changing what it's censored to.
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