Is The Extreme Word-Filter Necessary?

This has been a debate for years now. Lets see what people think.

**** yes.

Nah I'm just being naughty. I think that it's something that is kind of a norm on forums, no extreme language or nudity. Maybe there are some things that could be removed from the filter. Me, on my forum I had any words I really detested automatically change to the word cabbage, just for my own amusement.
At the end of the day its up to the root admins. It's not something that is really annoying, we can communicate without effin and blindin.


« Last edited by balthiersbit on Mar 13th 2017 »

I'd like to talk about my friend's ***** without it being censored :(

Or how people can be little *****.
Or how I know someone called ****

« Last edited by danielroxheaps on Mar 13th 2017 »

Where's the third option of idc???

I didn't put it down so that you had to vote

Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew it was Bowser. First the power of the stars, and now this.

I used to be an ardent supporter of the ban filter— my reasoning was that swearing degraded the quality of posts, and it was a public space as opposed to a Facebook or MySpace page.

As time has gone on, however, my views have loosened up. There are popular and well-respected blogs and news websites (Thought Catalog, Vice, and The Guardian come to mind) where swearwords remain unfiltered; in some cases, some swearing is used to make the blog piece sound human. They're now considered a sort of compositional risk rather than an outright taboo.

If I had it to do over, I would have argued that the swearing issue fell under the realm of flaming: Gratuitous swearing à la Angry Video Game Nerd would have been lumped under flamebait and dealt with accordingly, but the odd Alex Jones-esque outburst would be passed over without much fuss. Then again, we're now speaking as mostly seasoned members of the forums well above and beyond the age of 13, and we have a clearer idea of where the limits are. So I'd be fine with the filter being relaxed or done away with entirely, with policing done on the basis of the entire post rather than the singular word, and with the understanding that, given that this is the Internet and all, swearing still isn't great linguistic policy.

« Last edited by Cross Stinger on Mar 14th 2017 »

Just got to point out that in GTA V you cant send text messages with "inappropriate" language lol

You need to be 13 to post.. but anyone can view and read the site. I definitely agree that swearing is fine as a part of speech between friends and is very different from agressive verbal abuse so should be fine to use. But we need to consider that anyone can read this stuff.

Have the option to mark topics as "inappropriate" and require a birth date to be entered. If an under 13 fakes their age it's their fault and will teach them lol

Anyone can read this or anything else online to be fair. Most habe access to facebook, twitter all of which have more fcuks than Fifty Shades of Zzzzz but hey still I say its up to the rooties and its not a biggie really. When you have vocabulary like mine and an imagination you can find your way around these problems lol

Unless you restrict the forums by requiring viewers to register.



:O Remove guests then restrict forum use :OOOOOO



lol ideas!!!

It needs to be open for anyone to see. There are worse things to be seen online and sometimes thats just on FB.

Lol there is a thread called **** News without the asterisks.

I know, it's yours.