Profanity Filter
 

I like to consider myself a modern day Shakespeare (barring the times I lose my grasp of Engrish and substitute random spelling errors and other miscues in for other actual words), but I'm constantly trying to bring new words to the modern day language. Take for example if I was trying to explain in OOT a conversation I had with some punk:

"You should un[censored]tify yourself."

Now... I don't intend to circumvent the profanity filter. Instead I merely intend to express myself more openly and with greater color (But not like if I was bleck or green or whatev).

Should the profanity filter keep up with modern usage or is the burden on the individual poster to make sure that his overly expressive language has not overstepped the bounds of the archaic profanity filter?

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Well, it depends on the context. So, for example, if you were talking about Absolute Poker's security team, it would be reasonable to call them [censored]monkeys.

Of course, if you're talking about Ryan Beal or Mike Haven (praise be upon them) then nothing but the most glorious epithets would suffice.

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Speaking of Shakespeare...

Shakespearean Insulter

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I'd also like to be able to talk about homo sapiens without homo being censored. Seriously, there's probably 10 times it's used to refer to humans for every one derogatory use.

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There should be a way to opt-out of the filter. Instead of blocking certain words on the poster side, it should block them on the viewer side. Then, you could go to your preferences and select "I would like to view profanity" and the naughty words would be revealed in all their profane glory.

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There should be a way to opt-out of the filter. Instead of blocking certain words on the poster side, it should block them on the viewer side. Then, you could go to your preferences and select "I would like to view profanity" and the naughty words would be revealed in all their profane glory.

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[censored]-ing brilliant idea.

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I'd also like to be able to talk about homo sapiens without homo being censored. Seriously, there's probably 10 times it's used to refer to humans for every one derogatory use.

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This has come up a few times in discussion. The proposed solution was to just use "homosapiens."

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I'd also like to be able to talk about homo sapiens without homo being censored. Seriously, there's probably 10 times it's used to refer to humans for every one derogatory use.

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I see what you did there. Learn something interesting everyday on the interwebz....

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I'd also like to be able to talk about homo sapiens without homo being censored. Seriously, there's probably 10 times it's used to refer to humans for every one derogatory use.

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I see what you did there. Learn something interesting everyday on the interwebz....

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what am I missing?

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Quote this and see.

[censored] sapien

homo sapien

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Speaking of Shakespeare...

Shakespearean Insulter

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nice

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There should be a way to opt-out of the filter. Instead of blocking certain words on the poster side, it should block them on the viewer side. Then, you could go to your preferences and select "I would like to view profanity" and the naughty words would be revealed in all their profane glory.

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yeah like google's safesearch for images. turn that [censored] off for the good stuff.

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There should be a way to opt-out of the filter. Instead of blocking certain words on the poster side, it should block them on the viewer side. Then, you could go to your preferences and select "I would like to view profanity" and the naughty words would be revealed in all their profane glory.

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yeah like google's safesearch for images. turn that [censored] off for the good stuff.

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anyone else every wish there was a NONSAFE images? so you only get the good stuff?

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yeah like google's safesearch for images. turn that [censored] off for the good stuff.

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anyone else every wish there was a NONSAFE images? so you only get the good stuff?

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my buddy used to have a "porn skimmer" on his site. you would give it a URL and it would rip out all available videos and images from that site's subdirectories.

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Can we have a profanity thread in ATF?

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Thank you so much for this.