Author Topic: swear filter brainstorming (Read 7229 times)

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?

Graham · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2008, 07:32:22 pm »

Who takes people that swear alot seriously?

The Geologist · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2008, 07:37:59 pm »

shinyfoo

Wow...it really is the new swear filter. I'll be buggered.

jrgp · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2008, 08:01:33 pm »

I miss asterisks so badly.

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2008, 08:07:03 pm »

We should have ***Â < star thingies.Â Instead of shinyfoo

fuck should be f*** instead

etc

Captain Ben · « **Reply #5 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

iDante · « **Reply #6 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.

The Geologist · « **Reply #7 on:** June 27, 2008, 08:26:13 pm »

No, use geologic terms. Bunnies fall in the face of volcanism.

jrgp · « **Reply #8 on:** June 27, 2008, 08:44:50 pm »

I don't give a flying

about

y

ed up catchy britspeak expressions like bollocks. Ben can suck my

ing dick. I bet he swallows for cash. What a

.

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)

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #9 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.

Psycho · « **Reply #10 on:** June 27, 2008, 10:43:33 pm »

Change feck to flap!

Ey, flap you flapnuts

jrgp · « **Reply #11 on:** June 27, 2008, 10:51:00 pm »

Quote from: Psycho on June 27, 2008, 10:43:33 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.

Captain Ben · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2008, 11:19:59 pm »

Quote from: jrgp on June 27, 2008, 08:44:50 pm

I don't give a flying about y ed up catchy britspeak expressions like bollocks. Ben can suck my ing dick. I bet he swallows for cash. What a .

rather be a cocksucker than a linux loving child raping commIE with acne

Blue-ninja · « **Reply #13 on:** June 27, 2008, 11:33:58 pm »

shinyfoo....

hmm

shiny food....SHINY FOOD....GIMME ALL YOUR SHINY, GREASY FOOD! >:O

frogboy · « **Reply #14 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

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2008, 02:00:38 am »

Quote from: 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.

Thank you!!

no more fecking around, hooray!

Captain Ben · « **Reply #16 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

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2008, 07:35:20 am »

Quote from: 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.

May God have mercy on your soul

ds dude · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2008, 11:44:11 am »

How about "Shet" with an "e".

blackdevil0742 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2008, 12:14:19 pm »

This is bollocks!

STM1993 · « **Reply #20 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.

Kagesha · « **Reply #21 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

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #22 on:** July 01, 2008, 01:37:20 am »

You dont want that. ^

..do you?

ElGato · « **Reply #23 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.

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2008, 01:07:31 am »

Considering the nature of this forums it should be censored.

Pie · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2008, 03:06:23 am »

Quote from: Hair|Trigger on July 02, 2008, 01:07:31 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.

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #26 on:** July 02, 2008, 04:35:10 am »

The rules forbid abusing the swear filter anyway. Pity we have such lazy mods

Lapis Lazuli · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2008, 08:45:19 pm »

Quote from: Hair|Trigger on July 02, 2008, 04:35:10 am

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

Dusty · « **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2008, 04:43:49 pm »

I'd use the word "poop" to censor every curse.

MY_FIREMAN_IS_HUGE · « **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2008, 06:47:46 pm »

Quote from: Dusty on July 07, 2008, 04:43:49 pm

I'd use the word "poop" to censor every curse.

Lol!!!!!!
shit is ?...

Snow · « **Reply #30 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.

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.

Keron Cyst · « **Reply #31 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

), 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?

I dunno).

Quote from: Kagesha

shinyfoo feck tittes wanker slaggot twat dickheadÂ 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.

Blue-ninja · « **Reply #32 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.

ElGato · « **Reply #33 on:** July 13, 2008, 02:49:18 am »

Quote from: Keron Cyst on July 09, 2008, 11:51:48 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?

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #34 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.

Graham · « **Reply #35 on:** July 13, 2008, 09:34:48 am »

Quote from: 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.

He was an unfunny douche though.

Psycho · « **Reply #36 on:** July 16, 2008, 01:23:18 am »

I bet This is why

chutem · « **Reply #37 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?

LtKillroy · « **Reply #38 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.

Scarab · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2008, 04:02:39 pm »

Quote from: jrgp on June 27, 2008, 08:44:50 pm

I don't give a flying about y ed up catchy britspeak expressions like bollocks. Ben can suck my ing dick. I bet he swallows for cash. What a .

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

Keron Cyst · « **Reply #40 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.

LtKillroy · « **Reply #41 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.

The Geologist · « **Reply #42 on:** July 17, 2008, 05:36:03 pm »

Urge to kill...rising...

Keron Cyst · « **Reply #43 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 extentâ€”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.)

Demonic · « **Reply #44 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?

El_Spec · « **Reply #45 on:** July 23, 2008, 07:30:50 pm »

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

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

SDFilm · « **Reply #46 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, and bastard, since it's kinda clever.

Captain Ben · « **Reply #47 on:** July 24, 2008, 05:47:53 am »

bastard was ripped off hot fuzz

Quote from: 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 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

Demonic · « **Reply #48 on:** July 24, 2008, 06:33:20 am »

Again, do you miss anyone whom I banned?

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #49 on:** July 24, 2008, 07:47:34 am »

Quote from: Demonic on July 24, 2008, 06:33:20 am

Again, do you miss anyone whom I banned?

Rambo 6Â

oh, who you banned...

you banned me!

Keron Cyst · « **Reply #50 on:** July 24, 2008, 03:49:29 pm »

Quote from: Demonic on July 23, 2008, 05:53:57 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.

jrgp · « **Reply #51 on:** July 24, 2008, 04:07:46 pm »

Quote from: Keron Cyst on July 23, 2008, 05:12:01 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!

Quote from: Keron Cyst on July 24, 2008, 03:49:29 pm

It wouldn't surprise me if FLAB's not even been reading this thread, though. There's been no response.

Someone should pm him.

Captain Ben · « **Reply #52 on:** July 25, 2008, 01:49:44 am »

gosh don't go out of your way or anything

Quote from: Demonic on July 24, 2008, 06:33:20 am

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

Demonic · « **Reply #53 on:** July 25, 2008, 02:56:13 am »

'Recognizing word-images', I choose you!

chutem · « **Reply #54 on:** July 25, 2008, 05:35:41 am »

Quote from: jrgp on July 24, 2008, 04:07:46 pm

Quote from: Keron Cyst on July 24, 2008, 03:49:29 pm
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.

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Author Topic: swear filter brainstorming (Read 7229 times)