The Auto-Censor needs a style improvement.

[SnowFire]

At the Delaware Poly meet, one item of discussion was the complete inadequacy of the censor as it stands. Let's face it, *'s are boring. We demand an upgrade!

Way back in the day, an old Myth board replaced censored words with "smurf." Soon, people starting typing smurf straight out ("smurf you!" "smurf!" etc.). A similar innocuous word could create fun here as well.

Another good option would be a Censored smiley to replace any such words. This has the disadvantage of not Cut & Pasting well into plain text, but it's still amusing. would be a good example.

[ixnay]

IIRC, vBulletin uses a symbol or string to represent each character that is censored.

So something like "you stupid ****er" would translate into "you stupid smurf smurf smurf smurfer"

Which still is quite comedic.

[vmxa1]

I may be out of step, but how about no censor at all, but a few forbidden terms. Use them and you are banded. I see no need to sweat simple cuss words, but do not want to see a lot of childish swearing.

[Martin Gühmann]

Even if the auto censor is not changed, can we please get the censord smily, so you can use it as stylistic mean or when you edit your post, because you find that your post was a little bit to drastic, or you can indicate that you did manually censored the passage:

:censored: instead of !*%$* or something like this.

-Martin

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by vmxa1
I may be out of step, but how about no censor at all, but a few forbidden terms. Use them and you are banded. I see no need to sweat simple cuss words, but do not want to see a lot of childish swearing.

The list of censored words is customised, so you could restrict the number of words that are censored. That's not where the issue lies. Its that Dan and Mark like to play it safe with the words that are permitted on this site due to various concerns (such a maintaining the 'family site' image)

[Skanky Burns]

I, for one, welcome our new Smurf overlords.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by ixnay
IIRC, vBulletin uses a symbol or string to represent each character that is censored.

So something like "you stupid ****er" would translate into "you stupid smurf smurf smurf smurfer"

Which still is quite comedic.

A string of random similies will also work great.

[Unspeakable Horror]

Like this?
It would look weird I think...

[Spiffor]

I second the inclusion of the :censored: smilie. An excellent addition to 'Poly

[Jamski]

Chances of this happening : slim to none.

Let's go back to sleep.

I mean you can't even use the word *** at the moment.

-Jam

[Dauphin]

Whatever did the *** do to deserve censoring.

[IMG]http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/images/blue-***.jpg[/IMG]

Edit- Haha, I can't even attach an image with *** in the address bar.

[Jamski]

I don't know. It says "cum Laude" on my diploma, and I wonder why this is rude.

-Jam

[Dauphin]

Blue tits I was thinking.

Edit- Add an s and *** is uncensored. again.

[Jamski]

Don't tell me tits is censored too? That's about as rude as bum which is allowed.

-Jam

[Dauphin]

Two or more tits are fine. One *** is unacceptable.