Boards swearword filter...

muffler · 19-08-2006 2:04pm

Drop the filter and you may as well make a public announcement that personal abuse will be allowed.

Like the old saying - if it aint broke dont fix it

Sparky · 19-08-2006 2:24pm

Only the really smart people know how to avoid the fucking filter.

However I agree that in cases foul language should not be used all the time, but in certain cases works well to give your anger of something more noticable to people.

"The fucking wanker scratched my new car"

However excessive use of it towards another user I would not tollerate.

Week bans in my opinion would be handed out to users who use such language.

However while on the subject, the new vB uses an infraction system for use of foul language resulting in 1 point. say 3 of those and your banned for a length of time.

"fuck you OP".

1 point to you sir, 2 left.

dabbler2004 · 19-08-2006 3:28pm

I think either leave it as it is or make it stricter, if we see ****! /******* in a post we get the drift of what's being said. I mean we're all adults* here, we don't need things spelled out to us, do we?

* most of the time

or how about a filter that leaves the first and last letters in place so we know when people are callings us f*****g b******s or whatever

Wertz · 19-08-2006 5:20pm

muffler wrote:

Drop the filter and you may as well make a public announcement that personal abuse will be allowed.

Like the old saying - if it aint broke dont fix it

I disagree....we already have charter legislation on personal abuse and we already have ready means for getting around the filter should we so choose.

If I were to say for example, "haha [poster] you're an idiot, go away", I'm banned for personal abuse.
Or I could have put it much more eloquently and said "haha [poster] you're a fucking idiot, fuck off"....what did the expletive really change? (apart from making me feel better

)I'm still banned

I like amp's idea, in fact my other regular forum uses a similar system where the filter is configured to replace certain words with others (in-jokes mostly) and where personal abuse is encouraged and swearing is de facto. (I'm not for a moment suggesting that that would work on a forum the size of boards)

Another way of implementing the filter would be to make it an optional on/off in the user CP (on by default) and tightening the filter to ban alternative spellings of all of the barred expletives. That way we remain family friendly (in fact become even more so) but can be all growed up too if we so choose...