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The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches. Joel Send a noteboard - 22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM
It was the family friendly argument at WOT that brought the swear filter. We've been rather open about it here at RAFO so far, at least until someone takes it to ridiculous degrees. I don't get what the difference between f*ck and fuck's supposed to be anyway.

Otherwise I see no difference, but given how many schools, businesses and homes use such filtering, I see no upside to the lack of a language filter here, and some very real downsides. Would wotmania have been the same without Clover? Sprite? Urza? They were VERY young when they joined wotmania; had current parental controls been available then they might never have known it existed, let alone become integral to it. Much the same goes for the wealth of people who were most active on the site when they were at work: Businesses that screen out sites with "offensive" content make that impossible for sites with no filter.

The question is whether automatically excluding whole swathes of the worlds population from RAFO is justified by the ability to say, "bitch" rather than "bitch". I just fail to see how it possibly could be.
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This message last edited by Joel on 22/11/2010 at 12:06:48 PM
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I never had that issue. - 22/11/2010 05:38:59 PM 790 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 05:53:24 PM 456 Views
The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches. - 22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM 843 Views
How many posts have there been with swear words in titles? - 22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM 702 Views
Are you telling me monitors are THAT horribly inefficient? - 22/11/2010 02:55:43 PM 878 Views
Scanning a CoC requires a human (or significantly improved parsing), whereas spidering can be dumb - 22/11/2010 03:06:19 PM 776 Views
I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy. - 22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM 895 Views
Subroutines such as what? - 22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM 1118 Views
Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now. - 22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM 1135 Views
The point is that there is nothing that a browser* will see of such a filter unless... - 23/11/2010 08:56:37 AM 773 Views
OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none. - 23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM 800 Views
well... - 23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM 807 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM 789 Views
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new people is not the same as children. *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM 380 Views
True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college. - 23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM 807 Views
Please. - 23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM 814 Views
I resent that. - 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM 686 Views
Sadface. *NM* - 23/11/2010 10:12:31 PM 399 Views
... and later additions like Ghavrel? - 23/11/2010 10:24:28 PM 850 Views
188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles - 22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM 778 Views
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck - 22/11/2010 06:27:59 PM 770 Views
Yea, you're helping exclude dozens, if not hundreds of potential RAFOlk. - 22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM 933 Views
Watch out. The CIA is watching you post that. And then they're going to arrest EVERYONE. - 22/11/2010 08:09:07 PM 816 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 09:36:20 PM 781 Views
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A few honest answers. - 22/11/2010 10:54:30 PM 718 Views
Thanks - 22/11/2010 11:07:00 PM 722 Views
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A great deal of us were underage, though. - 23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM 848 Views
And look what a dirty mouth you got even without our help *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM 374 Views
All I can say to that is that people who think cursing on RAFO/WoTmania corrupts the youth - 23/11/2010 10:13:26 PM 751 Views
Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though. - 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM 776 Views
*sniggers* - 24/11/2010 02:27:22 PM 670 Views
Has anyone actually voiced that concern? - 24/11/2010 02:28:23 PM 767 Views
yes. - 22/11/2010 12:05:23 PM 718 Views
True. - 22/11/2010 06:45:58 PM 774 Views
I love how the original poster hasn't responded to any of this. - 23/11/2010 03:11:58 AM 764 Views
Probably still in shock. - 23/11/2010 01:52:01 PM 783 Views

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