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I was in a recent conversation with someone who doesn't really map, but is a friend of mine. He was just checking out the site.

He asked me why people were swearing so much. I responded that we dont mind if its in good taste, which is why we kept it. About 60% of the topics he entered, had some kind of swearing on the page.

I had then realized, that so many people were coming onto this site, angry, fighting, and couldn't debate or accept anyone elses ideals. I hadn't seen it before, but it was horrible.

So, in desperation, I brought the swear filter up and put every word I can think of, and prehibiting some topics.

If it really comes down to it, I might get rid of the serious forum, or in a last attempt, if ONE bad word is detected in a post, it will not be posted and return an error. Don't force me to do either of those.

Also, there is a lot of selectity going on, some people get away with murder and some don't. I'm going to be watching for this. If you report a post and that doesn't work, then you can do the last resort option, and PM me.

Sorry such drastic measures were taken, but the wholsomeness of the topics here has gone down the drain, and im sick of it. I come here to have interesting debates and conversations, not to see a swear word in every second line of a post. You do NOT have to swear to be noticed.

Very well said. I have used swear words before. But, because of this site, I stopped talking like the average B.Net player. And personally, this change won't affect the majority of SEN. It's just those select few that choose to swear every other sentence.

Well, since I can actually see the filters, I'm going to tell you which ones I disagree with in ASCII/number methods:

*removed*

From what I can see, at least 10 of the words on there were banned because of the Internet ography topic... which is dumb. :wt e: (<- hey, I can't even use that smiley!)

I agree with moose on most of the words..

*removed*

... these should probably stay off. I doubt they would be any use anyway.

It's not that we're all just a bunch of angry loners...
It's that some people just swear casually, and if you really think that casual swearing is need for an alarm then, well...

Pardon me, but you need to grow a pair of s.

Moose, Cheeze, meet my friend, rules:

I hate to have to say it Yoshi, but I think you're taking this wee bit too far.

How so? Unless you can convince me otherwise that you people absolutely have to swear, it stays.

You should allow more emoticons per post, now that every possible word is censored, it uses up all your emoticons in a long post, making it a real hassle.

No, I dont think so...


Better solution: Swear less.

Well, in the "Fundamentalists" thread, I quoted a couple of people from there... it litterally took me 15 minutes to go through and use asterisks instead to get the post through.

i dont think i have ever swron on SEN once.... if i ahve please pm me about this but i feel that without swearing my posts are heard just fine... meaning that it doesn't take swearing to bet the point across... pointing out stupidity in an obviouse way is a far better detterent then cussing someone out about it...

I feel there's nothing wrong with swearing when used in a non destructive manner...
Such as...
Oh , that was one huge ing spider.


As for your problem wesmic, maybe instead of a censored smilie, words could get replaced with characters such as %&#!@?
Or maybe when you quote them, it does...

Everybody has to swear once in a while, don't they?

See what I mean? There is a problem.


I guess I should start replacing them with words then.



Would you swear at your parents?

Swearing won't get you anywhere in life, example:
My brother was aplying for a job at some service place (He'd be working with customers.)
Well, these two other guys were applying also, one was rude, used lots of offensive and "swear" words, and was generaly not the type of person you'd want next to you in a movie theater.
Guess where his resume went?
Well, the trash aparently got a lot of
f&^#($& s#^! from that guy, eh?
Swearing makes people look down on you, and it shows you don't have much repsect for your own actions.

My parents only allow me to swear being small:

Damn, Hell, A--

And what I meant by everyone has to swear once in a while, I never was taking it to parents. Nobody would ever do that...

Off-Topic: Am I still banned ?

As I've said many times before, swearing//flaming brings down the site's quality of posts.
I'm glad that some more stricter methods are being implemented.

Swearing once in a while is OK, everyone has sworn in real life. Sometimes we understand that there's just no other word to describe it.

But then people started taking too much confidence and thinknig that they were the last Coke can. A lot of people started going: " this, your a crazed mother er and I don't give a "
The day people start swearing in a bad manner in which can easily be put in more decent words is the day the quality of posting scares people. That day has started a long time ago and hopefully ended today.

ADDITION:

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Yoshi, I made a pretty important addition to your last paragraph in your FAQ post.



BTW: Nice spelling

I'm not saying that people need to swear, I'm saying that some of those words are NOT swears. The three-letter form of "urine" is not a swear. Neither is the other word for cigarette, or a bundle of sticks. Neither is the word for non-heterosexuals which means strange. Seriously, this is impairing my regular speech.

I don't really care about this filter for swear words since i hardly swear. Almost never. But how come the other word for sexual is filtered?

Edit: Hmm I guess you aren't allowed to say that too...

peer

Yeah, so I awesome person ing around with some peer-to-peer software, and I was like "WT e"...

I've already made some posts and seen some problems with this, for one thing, the opposite of heterosexual is partially censored, what's with that? It's better than the three letter form, also the synoym for mentally handicapped is censored, what's wrong with that, especially in a serious discussion, when it has a serious meaning. In fact whenever I see a censor like this for words that aren't really bad words, it makes the post even more degrading!

Also, the four letter form of urine, when used in place of "annoy" and then censored, makes it look like you are saying the f words, which is even worse.

I'm just saying some aren't even really swear words.