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[syao]

I tweaked the word filter a bit, it should mitigate any foreseeable misunderstanding issues now.  Crap and shit are translated to poop, among the other things.  Most other changes are minor tweaks.
Edit: If you can think of other possible cases, please let me know and I'll try to handle them.

About the suggestions to toggle the swear filter on a user or post basis - no, that's not possible.  It's just like Doh said, the filter is applied when you're posting, and once things are saved that way, there's nothing that can be done to revert the change (and running the filter on post view is practically impossible, as the server would have to run cpu-intensive comparison operations on each and every page view.)

[cluthz]

syao, on 27 June 2012 - 07:43 AM, said:

I tweaked the word filter a bit, it should mitigate any foreseeable misunderstanding issues now.  poop and poop are translated to poop, among the other things.  Most other changes are minor tweaks.
Edit: If you can think of other possible cases, please let me know and I'll try to handle them.

About the suggestions to toggle the swear filter on a user or post basis - no, that's not possible.  It's just like Doh said, the filter is applied when you're posting, and once things are saved that way, there's nothing that can be done to revert the change (and running the filter on post view is practically impossible, as the server would have to run cpu-intensive comparison operations on each and every page view.)

why even have cr*p and sh*t in the swear filter?

[syao]

cluthz, on 27 June 2012 - 11:34 AM, said:

why even have cr*p and sh*t in the swear filter?

Good question. I'm not personally bothered by those two words, so I'm fine with removing them.

[devilhunter]

syao, on 29 June 2012 - 11:29 AM, said:

Good question. I'm not personally bothered by those two words, so I'm fine with removing them.

These two words are the most used here (and by specific persons).
It's quite nice to see multiple reports by people because they often see things like "did you post a shit port again" or "stop posting your crap projects" in the forum.
And 'crap' and 'shit' can be very offending depending on the situation.
KGL (topic starter) is the main offender in these things, and basically because of things like this i enabled the word filter in the first place. Not surprising he's the one that gets annoyed by the system's ability to educate him or help think about the stuff he just posted.

Since some XBOX Live level kids are here that think they can swear all they want at random people, the swear filter helps the mods out by giving them less work.
Basically i don't want to run around after trash talking kids who curse all the time, handing out punishments and justifying the situations, and these things tend to trigger reports most of the time.
On most civilised places it's raining bans over things like this, here it's just the simple word filter.
(that also gives others the option to laugh at the vulgar person because of the twisted words. )

platypus.

[Tetsu]

I like some of inside mac games swear filter substitutes... like "fire truck" for the F bomb and popsnizzle for sh*t.

[KGameLover1]

devilhunter, on 29 June 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

These two words are the most used here (and by specific persons).
It's quite nice to see multiple reports by people because they often see things like "did you post a poop port again" or "stop posting your poop projects" in the forum.
And 'poop' and 'poop' can be very offending depending on the situation.
KGL (topic starter) is the main offender in these things, and basically because of things like this i enabled the word filter in the first place. Not surprising he's the one that gets annoyed by the system's ability to educate him or help think about the stuff he just posted.

There's no need for insults or personal attacks. Is this about that time when I was really mad at a certain forum user for literally creeping on the other users and finding out items such as their REAL NAMES, then went on a rage forum-wide? That seems to be around the time you implemented the swear filter. If you look through some of my earlier posts before that, you'll see that I didn't actually swear that often. (unless you consider posting the pic of the GTFO guy swearing... i do that frequently )

However, I'm not one for petty arguments and such. If you won't budge at all on this, then I'll just be quiet.

[cluthz]

There is no need for calling people names except for genius, hero or porting god

If you have an issue with a certain post, me and cybershark is active on a daily basis, and if there are reports we will check them and issue an appropriate warning or penalty as needed. Although members doesn't see all we do, but believe me all reports are taken seriously and are dealt with accordingly.

Personal attacks and insults are not taken lightly upon, and the best way to solve an issue is to contact mod, and not retaliate as it does escalate things further.

My only issue with the profanity filter was that words used in certain cases like "EA Origin is a sh't DRM" was translated to " ..a nice DRM" instead, but this is however not the case anymore.

[devilhunter]

KGameLover1, on 29 June 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

There's no need for insults or personal attacks.

Funny.
A personal insult is if i call you names, or another statement which tells you to stfu or gtfo for example.
which i'm not doing, ever.

The thing is that most of the reports that came in the last few months pointed back at you (or at blinx for that matter), this is not an insult, it's a fact.
Often about blinxfrost's ports, or hmtinc's posts, or even just at random stuff, to name a few.

I can't keep warning you all the time, or other people for such a simple matter; or get in touch with the people who have to report this. That's why the swear filter.
It's an easy solution for a problem where you'd normally have to bonk someone over the head, which i'm not a fan of.
and sh*t and cr*p were the most popular words used in the 'offending' posts.
yes, you were one of the primary reasons why i enabled the swear filter if you don't know by now; while you have a big mouth sometimes, i still think you're a good kid and belong to this bunch.
And i want to keep you around and not shoo you away with the 'behaviour points' that the reports force me to, for something as simple as a swear.

Astounding how such a simple thing as a swear filter gets people to ruffle their feathers, as if it's taking away your personal freedom.
It's simply a protection to not let thigns escalate when people call each other names, and to let the mods distribute less warning points/temp. bans.
Everybody wins, or not?

If you want to say that PS3 / XBOX (for example) is a bloddy haggis compared to the PC, please choose your words more carefully. (but the community guidelines give us the privilege to add new words into the censor filter, when we see fit)
If you choose cr*p or sh*t in your sentence, the swear filter will let you know that it's wrong to curse, especially because more than 90% of the people here are minors.

If the current replacements for sh*t and cr*p are too confusing, we can find alternatives for them.
(Ned Flanders like anyone? diddely-daddely...)

[Tetsu]

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(but the community guidelines give us the privilege to add new words into the censor filter, when we see fit)

Oh no, pretty soon we wont be able to say fire truck or popsnizzle any more!

[SouthTuna]

devilhunter, on 29 June 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

platypus.

I'm totally fine with this word replacement.

[Hrachya]

cluthz, on 29 June 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:

...porting god ...

Hehe ^-^

[Demondays1]

WHAT THE F*** THATS BULLS*** F*** NO OH YOU STUPID F***ING C*** NO NO NO! GET THE F*** S*** A** B**** HOLY S***

Hope I didnt cuss too much heehheheheheheheehehe

Pfft the 18+\adult section, its not like im gonna go over there just cuz im 13 doesnt mean ima click on it and pretend im 42 or something.

[nismology]

I was once a member of a forum where all the swear words were replaced by the word 'donkey'.

Hilarity ensued.