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removal of word censorship.

The Penguin

The Penguin

Chilly Willy The Penguin
I was thinking we should have word censorship removed. If it can't be done for the forum and blog, I think it should be for at least for private messages as I feel people should be able to talk to each other freely with no censorship.
 
I agree. In my opinion, we're all adults here. Well a lot of us anyways; and those that aren't are at least teens from what I've seen. We can use censored language if we like. If it gets out of hand, that's what the moderators are for. If the use of language offends someone that's their business; personally i think the arguement that it should be avoided just because it offends a few is stupid and selfish on the part of those who use it (as in that argument). Insulting language i can understand, but once again I'm more apt to use it ranting about something that upset me that day than to direct it at another user. I think i could assume the same about everyone else on here, we all seem to be a pretty good community of people on here. I don't see the point of censoring it.
 
Are private messages monitored or censored? Just wondering.

I've read while there are third-party apps to achieve it with Xen Foro forums, Xen Foro itself does not condone the practice.
 
Judge said:
Are private messages monitored or censored? Just wondering.

I've read while there are third-party apps to achieve it with Xen Foro forums, Xen Foro itself does not condone the practice.
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No I don't see the staff monitoring people messages. However, like many forum software, there are filters that will censor swear words. I don't see any value having that enable for private messages. I'm not sure if the filter for this forum is one filter for everything, or you can setup a filter for each module. If it module based, then the censor can be removed for private messages.
 
Word censors exist to comply with our advertising service Google Adsense. They are strict that no profane language be shown with their ads.
 
I'm thinking right now with some amusement of the TV show Farscape, where people (who have microbes that translate each other's languages) use swear words from an alien language that the microbes don't translate into English, but which correspond to English swear words. When someone says "You smell like dren. You look like dren", one knows exactly what the person is referring to.
 
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Adsense shouldn't even have any knowledge of private messages however, no? I agree with the original point. PMs should be sacrosanct.

Or perhaps something like another forum I am a member of has, people who register or pay for premium membership may disable a word filter. The word filter is only applicable for unregistered members.

The implications of this information are kind of upsetting though, if I'm being honest. I don't believe in censorship of this nature, since when did the internet become PG-13? You can say worse on tv shows. Prime time tv shows.

I actually need to process this.
 
Wintertime said:
I don't believe in censorship of this nature, since when did the internet become PG-13?
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This site isn't "the internet". Its a privately owned site with rules. Just like you can't walk into someone's home and neglect to follow the rules of their household. The internet is full of everything from G rated sites to X rated sites. This happens to be a PG-13 site.
 
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This site isn't "the internet". Its a privately owned site with rules. Just like you can't walk into someone's home and neglect to follow the rules of their household. The internet is full of everything from G rated sites to X rated sites. This happens to be a PG-13 site.
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I didn't say it was. I was speaking in general terms. If I meant this website, I would specify this website. :)

*edit- further, the thing that I feel is unfair in social networking in general is that people should have a choice. If they don't want to see swear words, they can use the filter. The ones that don't care about swear words, they have the option not to. I'm merely giving my opinion here, if that bothers anyone, well I guess you're free to disagree and even dislike me? I certainly won't deny anyone the pleasure.
 
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After Brent explained things in his first comment, I can understand his point of view as I'm a software developer. Sometimes people need to make tough decisions. But it not the end of the world. This is still a great site :)
 
Brent said:
It seemed as if you were implying we should not have this censorship here to me. If I was mistaken, then I apologize.
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I was speaking in general terms. In any event, I don't see the harm in discussing ideas, is that not appropriate?

*edit- nevermind, I'll be quiet and stop inconveniencing people with my thoughts. Can't seem to do anything but upset people lately anyway. Surprise, I have asperger's.. Whooda thunk.
 
Wintertime said:
I was speaking in general terms. In any event, I don't see the harm in discussing ideas, is that not appropriate?

*edit- nevermind, I'll be quiet and stop inconveniencing people with my thoughts. Can't seem to do anything but upset people lately anyway. Surprise, I have asperger's.. Whooda thunk.
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I am not upset. Just wanted to make sure I understand where you were coming from. No worries here.
 
Er, and, well, dammit. My delayed social reactions kick in now and remind me to apologise for any misunderstanding on my part.

Sometimes a swear word is perfectly indicated. :D
 
Well, sometimes I have to chuckle at the English language which seems to lack "flavoring particles" that other languages have. Tends to make us rely on more colorful adjectives and metaphors.

I've dealt with online filters for so long that it's second nature for me to on occasion use an acronym or asterisk here and there. It works...if one truly feels the need to express themselves in such a fashion. But most of the time I see no need to...
 
If I may, at the risk of being banned, I find the use of word censorship to be hypocritical at best, utter horsecock at worst, in terms of curse words, just by joining words together you can swear plain as day as I have myself done so above to illustrate my point, this can easily become a game for more lowbrow individuals. I have seen that swearing is still done and allowed on this site but I can point to no ready examples as I am hardly keeping count ; ]

The thing that stands out in my mind is that the replacement of such words is not frowned upon to the possibility of encouragement, to say a$$hole or fcuk or similar, is common practice around the forum, as a whole it should be considered tantamount to the word itself as the substitute is known for what it is and the mind fills in the blanks.

Having said all that, what this forum was, and the freedoms we all enjoyed here, those days are gone and in order to move forward we have to understand that different people have different ways of running things, whereas previously the site was possibly best described as for Aspies, by Aspies, today it is part of a collection of websites that adhere to a uniformity that includes advertising and an intended inclusion of the PG-13 market as Brent has already stated, that alone brings with it standards that are expected to be maintained, regardless of the limitations of the mindset of the target users of such a site.

The fact is that we persons on the spectrum are here at the discretion of the owner of the forum and if it is stated that swearing is frowned upon then so be it, one can continue to lament the lack of the ability to swear outright or perhaps work around it with similar sounding words or substitutes which seems to carry no penalties, we can of course just not swear, or another course of action would be to find somewhere else where swearing is acceptable, which would be the other 99% of the internet LOL
 
If what you get out of a few censored words is that this site isn't for Aspies then that is disappointing. I've explained why it is the way it is and if people want to work around the censorship then that is on them. The staff here has better things to do than nit pick peoples posts looking for people trying to evade the censorship. Unless its excessive and blatant then things usually are let slide here.
 
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