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Title: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: a-4-year-old on June 27, 2008, 07:31:11 pm
shit is the shittiest one so far, way worse than bollocks.


How can we be taken seriously when we call others out on their bullshit?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Graham on June 27, 2008, 07:32:22 pm
Who takes people that swear alot seriously?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: The Geologist on June 27, 2008, 07:37:59 pm
shinyfoo

Wow...it really is the new swear filter.  I'll be buggered.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: jrgp on June 27, 2008, 08:01:33 pm
I miss asterisks so badly.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Hair|Trigger on June 27, 2008, 08:07:03 pm
We should have ***  < star thingies.  Instead of shinyfoo


fuck should be f*** instead :)

etc
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Captain Ben on June 27, 2008, 08:08:44 pm
thats shit

flies changed it because he thought i was british and it was pissing him off
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: iDante on June 27, 2008, 08:18:44 pm
Instead of replacing text with text, we should replace it with happy things, like bunnies. The forums would be so much happier that way.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: The Geologist on June 27, 2008, 08:26:13 pm
No, use geologic terms.  Bunnies fall in the face of volcanism.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: jrgp on June 27, 2008, 08:44:50 pm
I don't give a flying (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif) about (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)y (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)ed up catchy britspeak expressions like bollocks. Ben can suck my (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)ing dick. I bet he swallows for cash. What a (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif).

See? Let's go back to that :) (for those who don't know, that was what replaced all the bad words a few years ago)
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on June 27, 2008, 09:46:16 pm
I'll change it to stars or images when I am home and have a chance, I am in the car right now with my girlfriend and her family.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Psycho on June 27, 2008, 10:43:33 pm
Change feck to flap!

Ey, flap you flapnuts
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: jrgp on June 27, 2008, 10:51:00 pm
Change feck to flap!

Ey, flap you flapnuts
I laughed at that. But that's the kind of thing that gets less funny every time you see or hear it. F11.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Captain Ben on June 27, 2008, 11:19:59 pm
I don't give a flying (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif) about (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)y (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)ed up catchy britspeak expressions like bollocks. Ben can suck my (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)ing dick. I bet he swallows for cash. What a (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif).

rather be a cocksucker than a linux loving child raping commIE with acne
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Blue-ninja on June 27, 2008, 11:33:58 pm
shinyfoo....

hmm

shiny food....SHINY FOOD....GIMME ALL YOUR SHINY, GREASY FOOD! >:O
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: frogboy on June 28, 2008, 01:45:25 am
remove all swear filters because as soon as you start filtering swear words, you soon start censoring other things like c***unism and s***n
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Hair|Trigger on June 28, 2008, 02:00:38 am
I'll change it to stars or images when I am home and have a chance, I am in the car right now with my girlfriend and her family.

Thank you!!  :D

no more fecking around, hooray!
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Captain Ben on June 28, 2008, 06:28:35 am
hair trigger can you please look up brown nose in the dickshunigger

thats gay i'd rather bollocks or shit than gay boring stars or shit images
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: a-4-year-old on June 28, 2008, 07:35:20 am
I'll change it to stars or images when I am home and have a chance, I am in the car right now with my girlfriend and her family.
May God have mercy on your soul
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: ds dude on June 30, 2008, 11:44:11 am
How about "Shet" with an "e".
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: blackdevil0742 on June 30, 2008, 12:14:19 pm
This is bollocks!  [retard]
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: STM1993 on June 30, 2008, 12:17:54 pm
Let me test it a little...

shinyfoo - Sheet
feck - the F word
gay - Not Changed
sex machine - Wore

^ Okay I'm done testing.

Errm... I think the swear filter is fine, if it doesn't overlap any words that may contain the word within.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Kagesha on July 01, 2008, 01:12:17 am
shinyfoo feck tittes wanker slaggot twat dickhead  bullshinyfoo

ever considered filtering the ones that havent been filtered? eg dickhead, twat, wanker
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Hair|Trigger on July 01, 2008, 01:37:20 am
You dont want that.  ^

..do you?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: ElGato on July 02, 2008, 12:45:55 am
Fuck, Shit, Cunt, Nigger

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong. It's been bugging me for a while.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Hair|Trigger on July 02, 2008, 01:07:31 am
Considering the nature of this forums it should be censored.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Pie on July 02, 2008, 03:06:23 am
Considering the nature of this forums it should be censored.
But it can get a whole lot worse, That word is not just by itself, see, you've got sh!t and then you've got crap, which still means the aformentioned Sh!t, but it's not censored.

for example-

Nigger, Jungle bunny, coon, darkie Spear chucker Ect. None of those are filtered. So really there is almost always a way around the filter, if you're clever. If you want to to be censored then you've got to censor ALL of it.

Better off to just filter the really bad ones.


I'm not really racist, I'm just proving a point.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Hair|Trigger on July 02, 2008, 04:35:10 am
The rules forbid abusing the swear filter anyway.  Pity we have such lazy mods
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Lapis Lazuli on July 02, 2008, 08:45:19 pm
The rules forbid abusing the swear filter anyway.  Pity we have such lazy mods

I tend to PM anyone I see abusing the swear filter

We're not lazy, we just don't drag everyone out and beat them in public
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Dusty on July 07, 2008, 04:43:49 pm
I'd use the word "poop" to censor every curse.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: MY_FIREMAN_IS_HUGE on July 07, 2008, 06:47:46 pm
I'd use the word "poop" to censor every curse.
Lol!!!!!!
shit is ?...
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Snow on July 09, 2008, 09:50:39 am
I don't see what the big deal is using a swear filter. It makes it look like the admins are a bunch of babysitters. I'm sure more than 50% of Soldateers are over 18. Those who are here and under 18 swear anyway and probably know more curses than your average sailor. If there is no filter, I can see that some may abuse the filter (edit, me dummy) that privilege... but it would be a very small margin. There are many other forums without swear filters and there tends to be little abuse. It's just the douchebags that no one likes in real life or online that are so desperate for attention that they usually will post nothing but profanity or just complete useless replies to posts. This will happen in any forum, regardless of what you have for a swear filter. It's nice that you want to protect the eyes of younger, innocent Soldat enthusiasts, but if you think about it... no one that plays Soldat is innocent anymore. :P I mean, it's one of the goriest 2d games around, you can piss on people in the game and popular servers don't have swear filters.

This is my opinion of course. I just don't think that protecting the mass of members from a couple of forum abusing douchebags is worth the trouble to babysit everyone and make sure they stay in line. There is also the misconception that it keeps language a little less heated in flamewars. If someone wants to truly put someone else down, there are many ways of brutal psychological attacks that don't require the use of profanity.

If you are going to use a swear filter, could you at the very least use a decent replacement or just mask the word with *** or a "censored". Every time I see the words: shinnyfoo or bollocks, it makes me want to go to the house of the person who invented the word shinnyfoo and paint the inside of their house with it.

My 2 cents.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Keron Cyst on July 09, 2008, 11:51:48 am
I really relate to this perspective. I'm not so sure I would go to such an extreme standpoint (saying you'd paint FLAB's house's walls with "shinyfoo" repeatedly :P), but if staff is active (more like "vigilant") enough, a swear filter is debatable. I used to be for a filter, but ever since protests at another board some years ago showed me its nature, I feel that it makes the staff lazy, and quietly dulls the staff's sense to the poor behavior that it should always be on guard against.

The rules here say "No over-abundant swearing"; I'm not sure what "over-abundant" is, lol, but that's fine! But it also has "Do not abuse the swear filter" when staff as well post "feck." That makes it interesting. Whenever I see swear words here, I edit the posts silently and just leave an edited-by trail (I just edit practically everything that I see since I only hang out in the mapping section, and the words annoy me anyways). That is enough to show staff activity and to let people know of what they're doing, if they ever bother to return to their posts; I would think on any board, idiots who swear in every other word would be warned on sight, so I feel if the staff just edits out excessive swearing in the background, the filter isn't needed. (To me "excessive swearing" is a word every 10 or 20 posts or so; any more and start to take 'em out. Or take 'em all out, anyways... this board is so gigantic I don't think the staff would ever be able to nail everything.)

I also factor into account Soldat's own lack of such a filter (right? Does the latest have one? :P I dunno).

Quote from: Kagesha
shinyfoo feck tittes wanker slaggot twat dickhead  bullshinyfoo
Quote from: ElGato
feck, shinyfoo, arse, Nigger
New insulting words/phrases are made all the time. They can't be considered dodging the swear filter since the filter doesn't cover them. They are valid slang English; the filter can't stop them. It should be staff vigilance that keeps an eye out for idiocy. (Of course, I'm expressing all this assuming that the staff is willing to step up to the plate and do more stuff than lock threads/warn people. If not, then I could probably argue going the other way around, too.)

Off-topic:
Quote from: Snow
If someone wants to truly put someone else down, there are many ways of brutal psychological attacks that don't require the use of profanity.
This is very true.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Blue-ninja on July 13, 2008, 01:27:54 am
George Carlin wasn't afraid to swear in his most recent book of orgies. You're all just a bunch of pussies.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: ElGato on July 13, 2008, 02:49:18 am
Quote from: ElGato
feck, shinyfoo, arse, Nigger
New insulting words/phrases are made all the time. They can't be considered dodging the swear filter since the filter doesn't cover them. They are valid slang English; the filter can't stop them. It should be staff vigilance that keeps an eye out for idiocy. (Of course, I'm expressing all this assuming that the staff is willing to step up to the plate and do more stuff than lock threads/warn people. If not, then I could probably argue going the other way around, too.)

The word nigger is hardly a new word.... Did you mean to throw my quote in there?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: a-4-year-old on July 13, 2008, 07:07:32 am
well if Nig is censored we could always just call someone something else. thats what hes trying to say.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Graham on July 13, 2008, 09:34:48 am
George Carlin wasn't afraid to swear in his most recent book of orgies. You're all just a bunch of pussies.
He was an unfunny douche though.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Psycho on July 16, 2008, 01:23:18 am
I bet This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o) is why ;)
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: chutem on July 16, 2008, 01:37:00 am
[sarcasm]
We could have drop-down lists of common phrases that we piece together to make a post/reply.
[/sarcasm]

I think swear filtering is bullshit, who needs that crap?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: LtKillroy on July 16, 2008, 02:19:43 pm
You could always make it so it is a default option, but if you went into the profile tab there would be something that allowed you to turn it off.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Scarab on July 16, 2008, 04:02:39 pm
I don't give a flying (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif) about (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)y (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)ed up catchy britspeak expressions like bollocks. Ben can suck my (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif)ing dick. I bet he swallows for cash. What a (http://tms.jrgp.org/images/censored_orig.gif).

See? Let's go back to that :) (for those who don't know, that was what replaced all the bad words a few years ago)
that made me crack up so bad
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Keron Cyst on July 17, 2008, 04:16:42 pm
Yeah, a-4-year-old's correct.

I don't think I'm so much against a swear filter itself as much as that everyone just breaks it all the time. If the board is to keep this, I should not be able to read a staff member post "Sh!t" as I have. The staff should abide by it since they are in a respectable position and it wouldn't be encouraging at all to general community behavior and manner to watch them break their own rules.
In short, all the staff should be like The Geologist. ;D
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: LtKillroy on July 17, 2008, 04:56:10 pm
So they should all be boring nerds? Oh wait, they already are! Ba-Zing.
Anyway, do to COPPA, I really don't see why we need a filter, there isn't that much of a reason.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: The Geologist on July 17, 2008, 05:36:03 pm
Urge to kill...rising...
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Keron Cyst on July 23, 2008, 05:12:01 pm
Demonic's avatar.

Date Posted: July 22, 2008, 11:27:43 am
"Click it I fecking dare you." I just read this in the News.

Apparently most of the staff doesn't even care about curbing vulgarity (even promoting it, as shown by the "Floppy Disks" title edit, by none other than Amblin himself), so the filth here might as well be unleashed to its full extent—a swear filter makes it not just hypocritical, but very shallowly superficial at that when seen in the light of actions like these. Indecision is not far from being pathetic, even in comparison to the blatantly wrong choice.

FLAB. Take it off or whip the staff. (And this is an old staff, so I don't think that can be done very easily or quickly; online communities such as these ultimately have a lifespan, after all.)
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Demonic on July 23, 2008, 05:53:57 pm
Take away my right to cuss? Fuck that! ^˘.

If I do it in an unreadable font, will that calm all your flower-gentle souls?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: El_Spec on July 23, 2008, 07:30:50 pm
I would have to agree with Keron.  Swear filter is useless. 

And I thought Amblin was one of the last moderators who was straight.  I guess everyone on this forum is in some way fucked.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: SDFilm on July 23, 2008, 07:48:43 pm
The good ones are feck, because it is (or at least looks like) a reference to Father Ted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5snc_LYSY), and bastard, since it's kinda clever.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Captain Ben on July 24, 2008, 05:47:53 am
bastard was ripped off hot fuzz

I would have to agree with Keron.  Swear filter is useless. 

And I thought Amblin was one of the last moderators who was straight.  I guess everyone on this forum is in some way fecked.

just about
one moderator was a hacker
another one hates everyone and bans them when he feels like it
there was a massive douche that picked on people
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Demonic on July 24, 2008, 06:33:20 am
Again, do you miss anyone whom I banned?
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: a-4-year-old on July 24, 2008, 07:47:34 am
Again, do you miss anyone whom I banned?
Rambo 6  :'(

oh, who you banned...

you banned me!
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Keron Cyst on July 24, 2008, 03:49:29 pm
Take away my right to cuss? feck that! ^˘.
Heh. Therefore trash it!
It wouldn't surprise me if FLAB's not even been reading this thread, though. There's been no response.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: jrgp on July 24, 2008, 04:07:46 pm
FLAB. Take it off or whip the staff. (And this is an old staff, so I don't think that can be done very easily or quickly; online communities such as these ultimately have a lifespan, after all.)

I completely agree, man. We can talk about all kinds of inappropriate sexual crap, with clear and colorful imagery but can't even say "shinyfoo"? Punishing the mods wouldn't do crap, since most of them have been here long enough to consider themselves invincible gods.

Take it off!

It wouldn't surprise me if FLAB's not even been reading this thread, though. There's been no response.
Someone should pm him.
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Captain Ben on July 25, 2008, 01:49:44 am
gosh don't go out of your way or anything

Again, do you miss anyone whom I banned?

the guy that posted the picture of that chick spewing on the guys dick she was deepthroating
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: Demonic on July 25, 2008, 02:56:13 am
'Recognizing word-images', I choose you!
Title: Re: swear filter brainstorming
Post by: chutem on July 25, 2008, 05:35:41 am
It wouldn't surprise me if FLAB's not even been reading this thread, though. There's been no response.
Someone should pm him.
PM-ing FLAB doesn't really speed it up.