Originally Posted by FrenchManiac (Post 2936493)

I would of thought that all bad language would be filtered

Originally Posted by arista (Post 2936471)

Stu
Stop making a Freaking Fuss.

It is not needed.


Life In The City.

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot (Post 2936601)

Your on the admins payroll.

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot (Post 2935729)

Seriously though do you know what annoys me about it? The fact that we all know who censored it and why. It's not an action taken to better the forum, but rather a backlash against certain members just as a pointless demonstration of power. Why is it censored? Is there any verifiably positive moral and/or ethical reasons to come out of the act of censoring it? Why is the forum intent still on attracting kids? The forum is not suitable for kids nor is the forums subject matter. You know, that bit after http://www.thisis.

Why have these questions gone unanswered? Has a thirteen year old ever countributed, one or two exceptions aside, anything but trolling insanity? Then why protect them and encourage them to join? Are they going to slot right in next to the discussions about foreplay and the disguised racism that festers in the Serious Debates section, or something? Is Ghostinthehouse going to take them to one side and teach them about the wonders of adulthood?

[Waits for the first person to come along to make the assumption that just because I am annoyed at the principal, it must indicate that I need the word sh1t in order to express myself ...]

Originally Posted by Patrick (Post 2936727)

Can you please stop with these posts about how you think 13 Teen year olds are taking over the site :rolleyes:

Its getting boring now, the young members arent as bad as you keep making out.

Yes there is a few knobs but thats not fair to say its just the young ones as most of the prats on here arent even Teenagers.

Thank You.

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot (Post 2941092)

I started a thread on this too in Suggestions/Help + New Additions.

It's riddiculous, isin't it?

On the other hand, wank is still a-okay :).

Originally Posted by Chantel (Post 2941096)

So is cock

Originally Posted by James (Post 2944137)

I think I answered this a bit flippantly when it came up before so here are the reasons for swearing being filtered / not allowed on forums...

• It cheapens the forum. Someone who returned to the forum when Big Brother (10) was on actually said that the amount of swear words in topic titles made the forum look tacky. It's a bit like text speech, we could allow that easily but that cheapens the forum. I added '****' to the censor because I noticed someone was adding it a lot to topic titles.

• People don't like to be sworn at, it can look aggressive when written down and cause more arguments. The point about PG films isn't really relevant because swearing in films is spoken and can easily be ironic or comic. More difficult to tell on a forum.

• Word censors are quite common on the Internet and other forums have them.

• The old forum had a swear-word filter. Why change?