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I love how you made Adam into a positive Kronin al'Sulc Send a noteboard - 22/11/2010 05:40:33 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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Can we swear at RAFO? - 22/11/2010 04:57:59 AM 1067 Views
Fuck no. Are you shitting me? There's no damn chance we can swear. - 22/11/2010 05:01:48 AM 691 Views
You DARE presume to assault my delicate ears with your nasty coarse sailor talk??? - 22/11/2010 05:05:23 AM 720 Views
Delicate? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:06:19 AM 387 Views
Yes? - 22/11/2010 05:37:36 AM 586 Views
I don't know, can you? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:54:20 AM 405 Views
Why not try it an find out. *NM* - 22/11/2010 06:05:35 AM 363 Views
hell to the fuck yes! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:51:07 AM 349 Views
I can't think of underage users - 22/11/2010 11:32:40 AM 772 Views
Well - 22/11/2010 11:47:13 AM 776 Views
That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 11:58:37 AM 688 Views
Re: That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 12:11:25 PM 819 Views
THANK YOU! *hugs* - 22/11/2010 12:28:38 PM 636 Views
Back off! - 22/11/2010 12:31:13 PM 689 Views
'SOK: I hugged a man (in public)... - 22/11/2010 12:35:16 PM 572 Views
I never had that issue. - 22/11/2010 05:38:59 PM 705 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 05:53:24 PM 415 Views
The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches. - 22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM 762 Views
How many posts have there been with swear words in titles? - 22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM 613 Views
Are you telling me monitors are THAT horribly inefficient? - 22/11/2010 02:55:43 PM 795 Views
Scanning a CoC requires a human (or significantly improved parsing), whereas spidering can be dumb - 22/11/2010 03:06:19 PM 697 Views
I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy. - 22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM 806 Views
Subroutines such as what? - 22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM 1027 Views
Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now. - 22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM 1034 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 673 Views
OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none. - 23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM 716 Views
well... - 23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM 727 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM 705 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 06:42:43 PM 682 Views
Yes, a lot of people don't seem to want RAFO "invaded" by new people. - 23/11/2010 07:03:14 PM 760 Views
new people is not the same as children. *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM 344 Views
True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college. - 23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM 725 Views
Please. - 23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM 731 Views
I resent that. - 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM 600 Views
Sadface. *NM* - 23/11/2010 10:12:31 PM 360 Views
... and later additions like Ghavrel? - 23/11/2010 10:24:28 PM 770 Views
188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles - 22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM 698 Views
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck - 22/11/2010 06:27:59 PM 687 Views
Yea, you're helping exclude dozens, if not hundreds of potential RAFOlk. - 22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM 840 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 727 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 09:36:20 PM 698 Views
Who said anything about regulation? - 23/11/2010 01:45:21 AM 743 Views
I love how you made Adam into a positive - 22/11/2010 05:40:33 PM 792 Views
For good or ill, Adam was very much a part of wotmania. - 22/11/2010 07:40:03 PM 742 Views
*waves* Hi! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:17:52 PM 362 Views
Hey there! - 22/11/2010 10:30:24 PM 889 Views
A few honest answers. - 22/11/2010 10:54:30 PM 628 Views
Thanks - 22/11/2010 11:07:00 PM 636 Views
Perfectly alright. *NM* - 22/11/2010 11:12:43 PM 243 Views
A great deal of us were underage, though. - 23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM 770 Views
And look what a dirty mouth you got even without our help *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM 335 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 660 Views
Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though. - 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM 696 Views
*sniggers* - 24/11/2010 02:27:22 PM 574 Views
Has anyone actually voiced that concern? - 24/11/2010 02:28:23 PM 682 Views
yes. - 22/11/2010 12:05:23 PM 627 Views
True. - 22/11/2010 06:45:58 PM 698 Views
I love how the original poster hasn't responded to any of this. - 23/11/2010 03:11:58 AM 672 Views
Probably still in shock. - 23/11/2010 01:52:01 PM 701 Views

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