Stop Filtering Non-Swears

[slvr_phoenix]

Why is the word "crap" being filtered? It's not even remotely a swear word. Hell, it's not even always slang for one. For example, a crap shoot. Crap crap crap crap crap!

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Add to the list of silly non-swears to stop filtering that of xxx. In a post I just used it in an example of Home -> xxx -> yyy -> zzz. It was a perfectly harmless thing to say, and cracked me up :lol: to see it get filtered to Home -> xxx -> yyy -> zzz.

(And thank goodness the old forum's filter-breaking techniques still work, or else this'd get akward to request.)

 

[steve_sa]

Webdog, I put in some initial words in our closed Beta. You guys talk it over, and then Fredi needs to go into the system and adjust accordingly.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

DESTROY the filter.

 

[Rob423]

we need some kind of a filter... im sure theres alot of immature newbs still lingering around...

 

[Rob423]

i don't see 2 much swearing or x'd out words, i didn't think it was a big problem.

 

[slvr_phoenix]

I never thought that swearing was all that big of a problem in the forum either. Yeah, there's always a few minimal uses. The bigger problem would be though that some of the immature people that should be worried about are the people smart enough to know how to get around the filter, rendering the filter generally useless in those cases.

Personally I know of two ways of getting around the filter, and could probably think up one or two more were there ever a need.

So in light of how little often it's needed, and of how useless it is against determined profaners, I'd personally vote to just toss the filter entirely.

But short of that, could someone please keep the filter limited to actual profanity? This crap and xxx thing is really ... silly. Goodness knows how many other (relatively) innocent words in the filter are just waiting to be discovered too.

 

[Jake_Barnes]

I believe we will end up ok on this issue ... Fredi's cool with the old traditions ... will just take some time to tweak.

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Alrighty. I'll have faith then.

 

[Jake_Barnes]

Alrighty. I'll have faith then.

Thanks, it will get handled ...

 

[RichPLS]

That's the spirit!