Why is there a word censor/swear-filter on the site?

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Why is there a word censor/swear-filter on the site?

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We're all adults, after all!!

The swear-word censor is there to prevent pages getting filtered by some of the filters out there - i.e. if the word is censored BEFORE it gets to the person's own machine, their local censor shouldn't prevent the whole page from being displayed.

This ensures that people behind company filters/censors etc. can still view the forum.

So don't worry, I'm not trying to nanny-state the more sensitive readers out there, actually it's using censors to subvert the censors!!

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Re: Why is there a word censor/swear-filter on the site?

Post by J.R. »

jtaylor wrote:We're all adults, after all!!

The swear-word censor is there to prevent pages getting filtered by some of the filters out there - i.e. if the word is censored BEFORE it gets to the person's own machine, their local censor shouldn't prevent the whole page from being displayed.

This ensures that people behind company filters/censors etc. can still view the forum.

So don't worry, I'm not trying to nanny-state the more sensitive readers out there, actually it's using censors to subvert the censors!!

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Or, as Billy Connolly once suggested, perhaps PHUQ might be an appropriate spelling for us well-educated, public-school types......

Or, Father Ted - style, FECK!
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What happens if we swear in another language ? (being as how we're all so well-educated and that ) - can we be crude/ gross/ pornographic as long as it's not in english ?

Just being subversive here...
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Richard Ruck wrote:Or, as Billy Connolly once suggested, perhaps PHUQ might be an appropriate spelling for us well-educated, public-school types......

Or, Father Ted - style, FECK!
Interesting idea, a dictionary of alternative swear word spellings.
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Richard Ruck wrote:Or, Father Ted - style, FECK!
That one along with "Fook" seems very popolar on other forums I've been on!
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Euterpe13 wrote:What happens if we swear in another language ? (being as how we're all so well-educated and that ) - can we be crude/ gross/ pornographic as long as it's not in english ?

Just being subversive here...
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Does that mean we would be in for a load of Spanish expletives?
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Umm hello everyone, first time here so do let me know if I say anything wrong but how about

fcuk or is that too dodgy?
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I think that's a fcuking marvellous idea, Cato.
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Strictly speaking, feck in irish means to steal or to throw. But no-one seems to stealing know that, so I don't think we should throwing care about it either.
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kayinbaja wrote:Strictly speaking, feck in irish means to steal or to throw. But no-one seems to stealing know that, so I don't think we should throwing care about it either.
Chuck that!
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Erm...In what sense are we talking chuck?

Sincere hopes that it is not the pavement and pizza type!
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Ajarn Philip wrote:
kayinbaja wrote:Strictly speaking, feck in irish means to steal or to throw. But no-one seems to stealing know that, so I don't think we should throwing care about it either.
Chuck that!
It's a lobbing disgrace.
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Post by Cato »

Hang on a minute, many moons ago I was playing in a tournament when a member of the opposing team got a rather juicy shot in the gentleman's area. He yelled out at the top of his now high pitched voice..."Oh feck, my b*lls!" If feck means to steal in Ireland, does that mean that he was acually saying someone had stollen his prized assets?
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Ouch ...
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