Censorship Policy

[yunghungwell]

(Disclaimer=I haven't completely read this thread yet, and I just finished reading the "FAX is no longer a NooB" thread.)

I say you can filter whatever words you want, but I ask you this: Are the cuss words any worse than some of the visuals that are created by some of our more "artistic" posters?

[Saulbadguy]

You can't say bundle of sticks either. Whats up with that?

[Gaz]

Can I set things up so that all obscenity is censored? I seem to recall having that option. Is it gone or can I just not find it?

xoxo~
Gaz
Willing to do the heavy lifting.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by Gaz

Can I set things up so that all obscenity is censored? I seem to recall having that option. Is it gone or can I just not find it?

xoxo~
Gaz
Willing to do the heavy lifting.

Bob Dole just uses White-Out. It takes awhile, but you'll eventually have all the obscenities whited out.

[ptlyon]

I wish we had that feature that we had on the old planet to filter out our own list of words.

[Logical]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

I wish we had that feature that we had on the old planet to filter out our own list of words.

No kidding, when was that lost, since I never filtered anything I was allowed to read everything.

[jarjar]

Having hangups over words is irrational. I am never offended by mere words, it's the content that can bug me. That said I realize some people are offended by certain language, so I try to moderate myself until I know where the boundaries are.

[Gaz]

Why is it irrational to dislike seeing profanity?

I am not traumatized. Nor am I shocked. Nor, sadly, am I surprised.

I simply do not like looking at it.

However, as ptlyon pointed out, we used to have the ability to create our own filters. That way, those of us who do not want to see that stuff did not have to see it and did not impose on the innate rights of the potty-mouthed. Forget the search function and give us that option.

Problem solved.

xoxo~
Gaz
Irrationally civilized and polite.

[jarjar]

Originally Posted by Gaz

Why is it irrational to dislike seeing profanity?

Because the purpose of language is to communicate. People have chosen to single out words used as adjectives as offensive despite their meaning and context. It's completely beside the point of language and words, so it's irrational. What is rational is hearing what is being communicated and reacting to that, not to the medium.

Note I'm not saying that people aren't genuinely offended, they are, I'm just saying it's irrational despite that. The reason they are offended is obvious, they were conditioned to be since children, but that doesn't make it rational. I would think more of a person who chose to control the feeling instead of using it to lord over others as so many do, like you right now for instance.

[Bob Dole]

Bob Dole is sometimes offended by non-standard font faces and colors.

Wait...that's not it. Bob Dole will have to think on it a little more. There's bound to be something.

[go bo]

Originally Posted by jidar

. . . I would think more of a person who chose to control the feeling instead of using it to lord over others as so many do, like you right now for instance.

whoa there, big boy...

gaz has never used anything to lord over anybody on this board, so far as i know...

why do you think we include gaz options in polls?

i'm sure gaz does not need my help in defending him, but you are waaaay off base on this one...



do you ****ing get my meaning, **** for brains?

[jarjar]

Originally Posted by go bo

whoa there, big boy...

gaz has never used anything to lord over anybody on this board, so far as i know...

why do you think we include gaz options in polls?

i'm sure gaz does not need my help in defending him, but you are waaaay off base on this one...



do you ****ing get my meaning, **** for brains?

LOL. Ok then, it was a stretch, but I was feeling fiesty.

[chiefs4me]

Originally Posted by jidar

Because the purpose of language is to communicate. People have chosen to single out words used as adjectives as offensive despite their meaning and context. It's completely beside the point of language and words, so it's irrational. What is rational is hearing what is being communicated and reacting to that, not to the medium.

Note I'm not saying that people aren't genuinely offended, they are, I'm just saying it's irrational despite that. The reason they are offended is obvious, they were conditioned to be since children, but that doesn't make it rational. I would think more of a person who chose to control the feeling instead of using it to lord over others as so many do, like you right now for instance.

oooooh boy..you are in trouble now...even I don't talk back to GAZ...

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Gaz

Forget the search function and give us that option.

Speaking of which, forget the search function altogether.

I can't seem to find anything with it.

Try the word "mushroom". I know that there is a thread less than a week old called "mushroom hunting", but it doesn't find it.