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Poll Question: What you think of PA's profanity filter?
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    Posted: October 31 2011 at 04:05
Originally posted by Adams Bolero Adams Bolero wrote:

The ironic thing is that the ad at the top of the page when I opened this thread was for the band ''F**k the Facts''.LOL

Me too by DIE MISERABLE -  f**k the facts


Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - October 31 2011 at 04:07
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2011 at 06:59
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I've got ways to go arounfd the censorship, but stating it here would be like giving matches to a pyromaniac TongueWink


And we is always watching
By the way, it PA admins that control the words or the Web Wiz?


The admins control the filter - if we want a certain 4 letter work beginning with 'F' to be automatically replaced with 'Phil Collins Is A Poo-Head', we could action it...



Hmmmm....
We'll be watching for new developments like that. Tongue

That's interesting though.  You could then set it to make asterisks replace whole words instead of leaving behind enough of a remnant that we pretty much know what was being written.


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 27 2011 at 07:03
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 7026 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2011 at 06:28
I swear that I never swear, so I don’t care if the filter is there.
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Points: 65268 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2011 at 05:10
well that's nightmares tonight, in'it 
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2011 at 04:49
And today's four letter word beginning with 'F' is brought to you by:
 
... and I guess there are those that would have preferred  'Phil Collins Is A Poo-Head' to the replacement they actually got.
 
 
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2011 at 04:42
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I've got ways to go arounfd the censorship, but stating it here would be like giving matches to a pyromaniac TongueWink


And we is always watching
By the way, it PA admins that control the words or the Web Wiz?


The admins control the filter - if we want a certain 4 letter work beginning with 'F' to be automatically replaced with 'Phil Collins Is A Poo-Head', we could action it...



Hmmmm....

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The forums here are a social site. I like to think that especially we (prog lovers) can converse without swearing, and I say this as one who has a sailor's tongue. There will be complaints when some stuff is unnecessarily censored, e.g. did you hear that f**king Zappa solo! There will be other times when it's probably just as well that stuff is not allowed, e.g., <member_name_here> you are a f**kwad for having that opinion, and may you suffocate in sh*t. I prefer the more kindly approach.
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Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 20:19
Originally posted by Adams Bolero Adams Bolero wrote:

The ironic thing is that the ad at the top of the page when I opened this thread was for the band ''F**k the Facts''.LOL


I saw that too. Didn't think much of it at the time.
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I've got ways to go arounfd the censorship, but stating it here would be like giving matches to a pyromaniac TongueWink


And we is always watching
By the way, it PA admins that control the words or the Web Wiz?
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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The ironic thing is that the ad at the top of the page when I opened this thread was for the band ''F**k the Facts''.LOL
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Points: 4335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 12:11
An entertaining look at profanity:
 
All that being said I'm fine with this website censoring silly little words and would also be fine with them encouraging the frequent use of the same words.


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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 06:12
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I've got ways to go arounfd the censorship, but stating it here would be like giving matches to a pyromaniac TongueWink


And we is always watching

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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 05:17
It can't be an accident that in whatever language you care to mention the overwhelming majority of words deemed offensive or taboo are either sexual or body waste related. Is this the legacy of the most dominant moral code that has attempted to control the developed world over the ages i.e. Christianity, or justification that Freud's theories of repression might hold a vestige of truth?. Would swear words (apart from curses or execrations) exist in societies that have always been purely secular?
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Points: 20251 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 03:46
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Stick it to the f**king topic!  Angry

Wink
 
Fixed LOL!!!
 
I've got ways to go arounfd the censorship, but stating it here would be like giving matches to a pyromaniac TongueWink
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 24304 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 03:04
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

All censored words should be converted to their binary equivalents. It is the perfect compromise.
 
Almost. Hexadecimal will be easier to read.
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Points: 65268 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 02:47
sounds like something Spock would say
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 02:41
All censored words should be converted to their binary equivalents. It is the perfect compromise.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 02:12
Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

That f**king Avril Lavigne is one no talent queynte.  Middle English my friends. You did read your Chaucer, did you not? You know the one, where the miller told his tale (and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale). Yes?
Being bawdy isn't swearing. Both the anonymous poem you quoted and Chaucer employed euphemism and innuendo to replace swear words ... even Shakespeare would use an Elizabethan auto-censor to filter out foul language and wasn't beyond spelling it out to you if necessary (Twelfth Night) or simply stressing country matters (Hamlet).
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 21:54
That f**king Avril Lavigne is one no talent queynte.  Middle English my friends. You did read your Chaucer, did you not? You know the one, where the miller told his tale (and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale). Yes?

Edited by jammun - October 25 2011 at 21:59
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Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2011 at 20:57
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Stick to the f**king topic!  Angry

Wink


Bringing this back around to the topic.  That was much more powerful than just "stick to the topic".  LOL
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