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Post by Rolling Thunder on Dec 17, 2007 11:14:14 GMT -5
No offence to Woz and his crew, but I am getting irritable due to the fact that
The censoring replaces: Cockpit with Thingypit. Spoon with Sthingy.
I can appreciate the issue with the above, though it is a mite silly, but Spoon!? What in the blazes is wrong with spoon! How can it be offensive.
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Post by Mabus on Dec 17, 2007 14:51:33 GMT -5
Sthingy? Thingypit? You have lost me. Why not type the word out but with an asterix between each letter?
Congrats on the 500 posts by the way!
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Post by Cadian 117 on Dec 17, 2007 19:56:49 GMT -5
what do you type in to get sthingy?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2008 11:50:24 GMT -5
It's driving me nuts and making my posts look really stupid.
Sn*ggering and sn*gger change to "spersoning" brilliant! b*tching changed to "female doging" - which wasn't the inference, and is perhaps even worse...lol.
Oh I feel like I'm at school again.
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Post by Goddess of Darkness on May 1, 2008 17:43:48 GMT -5
The simple solution is to find an alternate woord that doesn't need to be censored......whinging is one word to describe b*tching......and it will all make sence.
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Post by Woz on May 24, 2008 4:50:50 GMT -5
The censorship is there for a reason-
This site is open to all age groups and if a Parent comes across something that they feel is offensive and little Johnny shouldn't be reading then they can complain to Proboards or GW and this site could get shut down.
I turn the air blue when I'm talking but I know it's not big or clever to do it in front of kids, same goes for typing on forums.
Seems the censored words are messed up at the moment Thingypit and sthing aren't on the list.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on May 24, 2008 8:17:34 GMT -5
Thingy is c o c k, which is annoying when your writing a piece of fluff and there is no other word for c o c k, i.e, 'he c o c ked his bolter.' or 'he clambered into the c o c kpitt.
And also s p o o n. WHY? What is offensive about a s p o o n?
I'm not objecting to 'real' swearwords like f*** or s*** or worse, but I think these restrictions are a little excessive.
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Post by Woz on May 24, 2008 11:19:26 GMT -5
Hmmm It seems that p.o.o.n is a censored word so for some reason it doesn't like s.p.o.o.n? ?? Same goes with c.o.c.k / c.o.c.k.e.d I'll take them off the list. Spoon Cocked
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Post by Rolling Thunder on May 24, 2008 13:20:32 GMT -5
Thank you Woz.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2008 15:24:34 GMT -5
Errr ... can't complain but both bugger and wank aren't included (or at least weren't), they're not yank swear words - but neither would get through the "parent over shoulder" test.
That said, any "reasonable parent" having a scan about, would realise the level of discussions and literary creatively etc on this board are pretty impressive (for an open board) and should be happy for there boy/girl to chat.
That said, the censorship does a useful job in making abusive flamers look like complete numpties!
I'm gonna start a new thread in the Underhive: Transatlantic subtle abusive language... the use of the finely tempered insult. Hopefully it'll catch on!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2008 10:38:29 GMT -5
I always have found it funny that we think words used to express anger are bad. What if one day we decided that words that express happiness are bad? That would be pretty messed up:
"Hi there johnny, dont you just feel great today?"
"Ya Bob it makes everything seem so wonderful"
"*GASP* YOU SAID A SWEAR!"
"Oh God I'm sorry! Im sorry! It just, just slipped out!"
Or something like that
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2008 22:51:46 GMT -5
ooookaay... this censorship thingy is weird... just noticed it... I understand them changing sh!t to nuts... (not really, no connection, unless you've been eating nuts, but then... nevermind) but why does it have no censorship whatsoever for the word ass? I mean isn't it considered a lot more offensive then sh!t? maybe this board is based in some area of the world that has a different view of swearing but i've always seen ass as a swear word... Not really complaining though... I say that word way to much in my opinion anyways... it just came up while I was typing
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Post by aeonian on Dec 13, 2008 20:07:19 GMT -5
haha, when I was writing my fluff, I typed it on microsoft word, and I used the word Sh** a bunch of times. Well, when I was re-reading it, I noticed that one of my charactes had said:
"I hate this warp - damned - nuts!" and I was like...what the heck?
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Post by psycho on Dec 14, 2008 11:07:27 GMT -5
lol on the black library forum my line "aww nuts here they come" came out as "Aww bleep here they bleep" i mean wat the hell man kerby
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Post by aeonian on Dec 14, 2008 19:57:06 GMT -5
Aaaah, come...I get it...C**...that's pretty bad censorship!
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Post by ssgtdude (M.I.A) on Dec 15, 2008 5:08:56 GMT -5
Of course you do realize that when you are on a forum like this or even on the BL that they are privately owned and not subject to any speech protection. If the owner(s) wanted to keep ALL curse words off then it is their right. Our right is if we want to remain here or not.
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