The problem with the swear filter.

[duke o' york]

Do only I think that it is very odd that shag is restricted, yet crap doesn't seem to be?

[Agathon]

That's because the mods need "crap" in order to make statements like "cut the crap now" (Ming); "that's a load of crap" (MtG); and "I don't give a crap what you think, this is a privately owned site." (Ming again)

[Agathon]

And did you know Herman Melville wrote Moby ****?

[OzzyKP]

Censorship sucks ass.

[Ming]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Censorship sucks ass.

In a free society, I would have to agree. However, this is a privately owned web site, and it is the RIGHT of the owners to determine what type of words should be allowed, and to make any other rules they deem appropriate. Ownership does have it's advantages

However... I would have to agree that censoring the "four letter first name" is kind of silly.

MARKOS... JUST SAY THE WORD and I will go in and remove that one from the list.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Agathon
That's because the mods need "crap" in order to make statements like "cut the crap now" (Ming); "that's a load of crap" (MtG); and "I don't give a crap what you think, this is a privately owned site." (Ming again)

Originally posted by Ming
In a free society, I would have to agree. However, this is a privately owned web site

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

Originally posted by ixnay
HI

I CANNOT TALK ABOUT SCOOBY DOO BECAUSE '****' IS FILTERED

WHOOPS

LIKE HOW MY FAVORITE CHARACTER IS ****GY

OH CRAP

I know the owners have mentioned they're not going to unfilter it, but could they at least make it so shag is only filtered when used alone?

That's also a problem for other languages. In spanish Undo is "De****o' .. D E S H A G O... and there are other few words in spanish that we cannot say due to the censorship. Anyway I'm not complaining. This is very funny specially the **** Cheney thing...

Actually, it is F**k Gephardt.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Ming


In a free society, I would have to agree. However, this is a privately owned web site, and it is the RIGHT of the owners to determine what type of words should be allowed, and to make any other rules they deem appropriate. Ownership does have it's advantages

However... I would have to agree that censoring the "four letter first name" is kind of silly.

MARKOS... JUST SAY THE WORD and I will go in and remove that one from the list.

C'mon Markos, please.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Ming
MARKOS... JUST SAY THE WORD and I will go in and remove that one from the list.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
One of the posters here was named Shaggy. At least, until he got sick of his name being censored every time someone quoted him. I forget who he is now though.

ACooper. He drops by very rarely now.

[Skanky Burns]

Thats right, thanks.

[mrmitchell]

Or, we could be accurate and call them "Pen*s Cheney" and "Pen*s Gephardt"

(C'mon, when you think how "d!ck" is censored but on the other hand we let many threads run to 100+ posts about only sex...it is rather silly.)

[DanQ]

In response to requests made above, some of which echo ones made in previous threads, the following modifications have been instituted to the censorship filter on Apolyton's forums:

* The word '****' is still not permitted, but for example 'shaggy' is.
* The word 'dick' is no longer censored.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Rasputin]

Originally posted by DanQ
In response to requests made above, some of which echo ones made in previous threads, the following modifications have been instituted to the censorship filter on Apolyton's forums:

* The word '****' is still not permitted, but for example 'shaggy' is.
* The word 'dick' is no longer censored.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

woohooo... well done .....

[notyoueither]

Well, sort of unexpected, but welcome none the less.

Thank you, Dan.