Sh1t.

kneemos

I'm here to plead for the unbanning of the humble sh1t.
It's a commonly used descriptive word for all sorts of things and far from offensive,plus it's a pain for people to find ways around it.

Even it's cousins sho1te and sh1te have been banished from the Boards version of the English language.
Nobody has ever been offended by sh1t,it's a perfectly natural substance,it comes out the rear of all animals.
Please allow people to have sh1t.

Cabaal

kneemos wrote: »

Nobody has ever been offended by sh1t,it's a perfectly natural substance,it comes out the rear of all animals.

Nobody?...thats a pretty massive claim.
Pretty sure media company's have had complaints about its usage in atleast one country in the world :pac:

For the record I personally don't think its a very offensive word, but there's a difference between saying "a dog **** in the woods" and "you're a **** head".

Will I Amnt

Cabaal wrote: »

Nobody?...thats a pretty massive claim.
Pretty sure media company's have had complaints about its usage in atleast one country in the world :pac:

For the record I personally don't think its a very offensive word, but there's a difference between saying "a dog **** in the woods" and "you're a **** head".

But what's the point when someone can just say "you're a sh1thead" anyway.
Prick, arsehole, dickhead, twat, mong, bellend... There's any amount of insulting words that are as bad or worse than sh*t that get by the swear filter.

Custardpi

Just say faeces instead.

Ruu

ploppers!

MugMugs

Will I Amnt wrote: »

But what's the point when someone can just say "you're a sh1thead" anyway.

Why waste a valuable 1?

Shithead

ABC....... It's easy as 123.

Will I Amnt

MugMugs wrote: »

Why waste a valuable 1?

Shithead

ABC....... It's easy as 123.

Because it's quicker than changing the font size...

MugMugs

My intention was to support your point. Albeit, using a different method.

My name is URL

Why not just implement the swear filter for forums that want to implement it?

It's the most pointless thing in the world on a forum where people regularly circumvent it and face no repercussions for doing so.

If it's used in the process of attacking someone then fair enough, action that.. but far more people are 'abused' without the use of any banned words.

Penn

Is it not the case that by having certain words censored, Boards doesn't get hit by PCs which have some sort of parental controls implemented, and therefore can still be viewed on school/college computers?

Into The Blue

Thought it was down to a vbulletin thing.. But as boards moved away from that shouldn't be a problem anymore to get rid..

Lovely Bloke

just use the [nofilter] tag

28064212

Into The Blue wrote: »

Thought it was down to a vbulletin thing.. But as boards moved away from that shouldn't be a problem anymore to get rid..

Boards still runs on vBulletin (most of it does anyway)

Renegade Mechanic

I for one, am a fan of the word "excrement". I actually feel more intelligent just saying it!

Das Kitty

28064212 wrote: »

Boards still runs on vBulletin (most of it does anyway)

Vbulletin (at least used to) allow you to specify words to filter.

You can even use it to filter one word into another.

For instance, I was on a site once that filtered that filthy phrase, 'have sex', into the soul crushing 'baby-dance'.

Dades

Das Kitty wrote: »

For instance, I was on a site once that filtered that filthy phrase, 'have sex', into the soul crushing 'baby-dance'.

I can see that giving some odd results in the Rugby forum. :pac:

"I'd baby-danceton in the team assuming he's 100%".

nesf

Das Kitty wrote: »

Vbulletin (at least used to) allow you to specify words to filter.

You can even use it to filter one word into another.

For instance, I was on a site once that filtered that filthy phrase, 'have sex', into the soul crushing 'baby-dance'.

Wasn't the issue that you could only have the filter on or off globally and couldn't allow it to be an option for the user? My memory might be failing me on this one.

Dav

It's binary for the entire site, we can't pick and choose where it's on and off.

Honestly, if we removed it, I know there'd be so many idiots who wouldn't be able to help themselves that we'd end up with a new post in here every week whinging about how they were banned for using words that some nazi power hungry mod personally dislikes and "so it's clearly a biased conspiracy to single me, Joe Troll, out as being some sort of monster when all I said was fuck 20 times in a 50 word post" etc...

It's here, it's probably not going away, we're probably not going to slap you on the wrist for bypassing it once or twice, but the reasons for having it far outweigh the reasons for not having it as far as I'm concerned.

Das Kitty

OK, Dav, but why sh*t and not the multitude of other swears that aren't filtered?

Dav

I don't follow - are we missing a large chunk of profanities that I'm too old to know? Feel free to pm me with what you mean.

Das Kitty

Dav wrote: »

I don't follow - are we missing a large chunk of profanities that I'm too old to know? Feel free to pm me with what you mean.

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Prick, arsehole, dickhead, twat, mong, bellend... There's any amount of insulting words that are as bad or worse than sh*t that get by the swear filter.

Please don't filter cockwomble, Dav.

Dades

Scunthorpe.

Just testing.

One eyed Jack

Dav wrote: »

I don't follow - are we missing a large chunk of profanities that I'm too old to know? Feel free to pm me with what you mean.

You're not alone Dav, I had to try and explain to one Admin on a popular American technology forum a few years back that 'feck' is not considered profanity in Ireland. He had thought I meant that other word, and this was long before the days of Father Ted

Personally speaking, I'm actively trying to reduce my use of salty language as your message tends to lose it's impact when it's peppered with profanities, and I've learned that it doesn't reflect well on the intellect of the user.

I try to abide by the "don't be a dick" rule, so I would normally see profanity as unnecessary.

Das Kitty

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I've learned that it doesn't reflect well on the intellect of the user.

:pac::pac::pac:

I must be thick as sh1t so.

One eyed Jack

Das Kitty wrote: »

:pac::pac::pac:

I must be thick as sh1t so.

Well I just meant it takes less effort to think of another way to convey the same sentiment, than is required to bypass the swear filter


ps. That word substitution filter you mentioned earlier was also used on Widemouth, where typing in 'pink sock' was substituted with 'makes a cup of tea' :pac:

Das Kitty

I think it was done here for April Fool's Day one year, where they subbed "swimming" for "dogging", and a thread called "Best Swimming Beaches" provided a lot of juvenile fun.

Penn

Another forum I use automatically changes 'Macbeth' to 'The Scottish Play'. Always thought it was a great touch

Pat Mustard

Could we have the profanity filter replace the word 'hell' with 'hey diddly heck', for a day for the craic.

We could call it Ned Flanders day.

Links234

I find the swear filter really annoying, especially when you're trying to talk about ****ake mushrooms. Damn it >_<

Star Lord

Even with the proper ii spelling? Shiitake mushrooms?

[edit]
That works ok!

GLaDOS

Linking to anything with a swear word in it is a pain


Things can get caught in the cross fire too, like poor aul Danny ****tu (Shittu)

DoozerT6

The Mustard wrote: »

Could we have the profanity filter replace the word 'hell' with 'hey diddly heck', for a day for the craic.

We could call it Ned Flanders day.

...or Ned Flanders dang-diddly doodle-day?

Sorry, I have nothing of value to contribute to the topic, I just wanted to make that little joke.

I'll get me coat

El Weirdo

One eyed Jack wrote: »

...your message tends to lose it's impact when it's peppered with profanities, and I've learned that it doesn't reflect well on the intellect of the user.

Eeden

A bit OT, but anyone interested in the linguistics of swearing, this is a mighty blog, with a fantastic bunch of contributors, who definitely put the lie to the argument that swearing is for ignoramuses: Strong Language: A sweary blog about swearing