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Note: These asterisks were manually entered and not caused by PA's profanity filter.
Why is that worth mentioning?
To emphasize that I am used to limit the usage of profanity to speech when I'm in the mood for it, so I avoid profanity in written text. The only confrontation that I have had with this filter was in the Song Game or the Song Word game when I entered the title of that Lenny Kravitz song.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 06:41
someone_else wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
someone_else wrote:
Note: These asterisks were manually entered and not caused by PA's profanity filter.
Why is that worth mentioning?
To emphasize that I am used to limit the usage of profanity to speech when I'm in the mood for it, so I avoid profanity in written text. The only confrontation that I have had with this filter was in the Song Game or the Song Word game when I entered the title of that Lenny Kravitz song.
Oh, well I don't think it really matters either way, an asterisk is an asterisk no matter if it was put in by you or a bot.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 07:40
I don't really care about it, either way. On this forum I used to self censor anyway, before the auto censor was implemented. I go on another forum where pretty much anything goes, and it's not the freindliest of places, although it's mostly current affairs.
It's different here. People tend to be less 'sweary' about music..
I'm not offended by profanity, but I expect some people are, so it's probably a worthwhile policy to ensure that this is a place that can be enjoyed by all who come here.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 10:05
I personally think the profanity filter is ridiculous. Profanity is such an arbitrary construct anyway, the notion is goign away in modern society. People are beginning to realize it's ridiculous to create a list of words and make them verboten.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 10:17
Deathrabbit wrote:
I personally think the profanity filter is ridiculous. Profanity is such an arbitrary construct anyway, the notion is goign away in modern society. People are beginning to realize it's ridiculous to create a list of words and make them verboten.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 10:44
manofmystery wrote:
Deathrabbit wrote:
I personally think the profanity filter is ridiculous. Profanity is such an arbitrary construct anyway, the notion is goign away in modern society. People are beginning to realize it's ridiculous to create a list of words and make them verboten.
Nowadays even young people use profanities (not that I'm applauding that) so I'm not sure what the purpose is here where most (not all) of us are at least semi-adults.
But it has its advantages. To be honest, when you add "f**k" to a sentence to make it sound more powerful, the "**" actually help highlight the word...
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 11:11
Jim Garten wrote:
Just as well nobody comes from the northern UK town of Sc**thorpe
And lives on Gropec**t Lane :(
someone_else wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
someone_else wrote:
Note: These asterisks were manually entered and not caused by PA's profanity filter.
Why is that worth mentioning?
To emphasize that I am used to limit the usage of profanity to speech when I'm in the mood for it, so I avoid profanity in written text. The only confrontation that I have had with this filter was in the Song Game or the Song Word game when I entered the title of that Lenny Kravitz song.
You're just making it take longer to write your post for no reason.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 16:06
I don't have a preference, since I'm not going to swear in English, ever.
I do swear occasionally, in situations of extreme dispair and frustration, but... on the Internet... and in a foreign language it'd seem strange to me...
Swearing is probably, together with counting numbers, the thing you'll never spontaneously learn to do in another language which is not your natural one.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 18:48
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
My suggestion: Abolish the "no profanity" rule, but maintain the profanity filter. I've never understood why both are in place. When I say "f*ck that" ... how can that be offensive to anyone? If I say "f*ck you" ... now that's a personal attack and could still be breaking site rules even if we don't specifically focus on profanity.
I agree with that too. It's so much more damaging to a person to say "You're dumb" than to say "f**k that" around them. At least that's how it should be.
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Posted: October 24 2011 at 19:30
Eärendil wrote:
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
My suggestion: Abolish the "no profanity" rule, but maintain the profanity filter. I've never understood why both are in place. When I say "f*ck that" ... how can that be offensive to anyone? If I say "f*ck you" ... now that's a personal attack and could still be breaking site rules even if we don't specifically focus on profanity.
I agree with that too. It's so much more damaging to a person to say "You're dumb" than to say "f**k that" around them. At least that's how it should be.
Uhhhhh, you're dumb.
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