PM censoring

[Gunfleet]

Sent a PM to a forumee I know and referred to a movie I'd seen in French as 'so-and-so or whatever the [censored] it's called in English'. Guess what? The message reads back as 'so-and-so or whatever the (censored) it's called in English'. Are we getting just an incy wincy bit censorship silly? WTF? WTF?!!

 

[Stingo]

Fcuking sure.

or as the Irish say "To be fceking sure, to be sure"

 

[tcm]

Re: new swear words

i was surprised at the censoring. Time to invent new swear words, surely a speciality of TV-aware types with Porridge owing a large part of its succes to "naffing" and Red Dwarf to "smeg", no?

 

[Gunfleet]

[censored] [censored]

I could [censored] well get into this [censored] lark

 

[Gunfleet]

Re: [censored] twaddle

apparently [censored] is censored but not
R-soles
or bollix
or See you next Tuesday
however [censored] is

 

[Sgeir]

Fairy Nuff

Not being immune to, and using, the daily use of swearie words, I'm hardly above criticism myself.

But, there are things like standards. Standards?

Standards! These things that we mocked in our youth, but later miss. Why? Because our generation led the way in foul-mouthed yobbishness.

I was Kimmed the other day, but K was right. Swearie words weren't an issue, but K felt that he had to take steps to protect the integrity of the forum. Against libel, slander, etc etc. He was right.

Fairy Nuff.

Words have to be put into a context, and there will be times when K, the arbitrator, makes a different judgement to the rest of us.

You could call that "authoritanianism", or "citizenship", or just plain "wimpie". Personally I wouldn't use the word "[censored]" in any forum.

Fairy Nuff?

PS: that was even "[censored]" before I'd typed it! Strange, or what?

 

[Gunfleet]

Re: Fairy Nuff

Oh I don't really mind. It's IPC's forum and they can enforce which standards they want. I'm just a bit surprised at the arbitrariness of the actual vocabulary, when I explored a little further. And I was very surprised when it happened in the PM. I wouldn't dream of exercising my ability to swear fluently in several languages on a public forum usually! Look over my messages and you'll see.

 

[l'escargot]

Re: Fairy Nuff

It would appear to be an automatic feature that came in with the Christmas time forum changes and operates on posts as well as PMs.

 

[snowleopard]

Re: Fairy Nuff

deciding which words to ban is always fraught with difficulty, for example mis-spellings will usually get past automatic censors but can give just as much offence.

i remember a case many years ago when a computer system used automatically-generated 4-character alpha passwords. to avoid offence, the programmer built a list of all 4-letter swearwords into the program and checked against it each time a new password was created. unfortunately the source code of the program was printing out just as the directors were being given a tour of the computer room. more sophisticated programmers just omitted all vowels.

 

[tcm]

Re: [censored] twaddle

fortunately, Scunthorpe has been removed from the Banned list. Also, sunsail is fine but not derivations with scum or slum prefix.

 

[phanakapan]

Re: [censored] twaddle

My new swear word for the day if F**-------FOG. Stopping me from sailing.

 

[Gunfleet]

F*g

Me too. Got away on Saturday/Sunday, though.