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.
At last, I have an apostrophe!
*MySmiley*
Foil fencers Dance the Spears. Or, at least, the foils.
Too stubborn to remove that extraneous *MySmiley*
~The Decapitator~
*MySmiley*
Foil fencers Dance the Spears. Or, at least, the foils.
Too stubborn to remove that extraneous *MySmiley*
~The Decapitator~
Can we swear at RAFO?
22/11/2010 04:57:59 AM
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Fuck no. Are you shitting me? There's no damn chance we can swear.
22/11/2010 05:01:48 AM
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You DARE presume to assault my delicate ears with your nasty coarse sailor talk???
22/11/2010 05:05:23 AM
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I can't think of underage users
22/11/2010 11:32:40 AM
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Well
22/11/2010 11:47:13 AM
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That's a good point of course
22/11/2010 11:58:37 AM
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Obviously we don't know what we don't know.</Rumsfeld>
22/11/2010 12:33:53 PM
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Apparently it's not high on Ben's priority list, so we seem to be fine for now. *NM*
22/11/2010 12:38:42 PM
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The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches.
22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM
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How many posts have there been with swear words in titles?
22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM
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Are you telling me monitors are THAT horribly inefficient?
22/11/2010 02:55:43 PM
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Scanning a CoC requires a human (or significantly improved parsing), whereas spidering can be dumb
22/11/2010 03:06:19 PM
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I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy.
22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM
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Subroutines such as what?
22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM
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Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now.
22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM
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The point is that there is nothing that a browser* will see of such a filter unless...
23/11/2010 08:56:37 AM
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OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none.
23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM
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well...
23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM
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Re: well...
23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM
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Re: well...
23/11/2010 06:42:43 PM
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Yes, a lot of people don't seem to want RAFO "invaded" by new people.
23/11/2010 07:03:14 PM
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new people is not the same as children. *NM*
23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM
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True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college.
23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM
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Please.
23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM
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Of course they do; who do you think creates all those time sink--er, games?
23/11/2010 11:46:09 PM
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I resent that.
23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM
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Yeah, I may have skipped a few important people, too; sorry.
23/11/2010 11:44:12 PM
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the whole community was younger then. It really doesn't apply to today.
24/11/2010 07:50:56 AM
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Unless you mean the whole internet community, it's far more applicable, but to different individuals
24/11/2010 02:26:01 PM
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188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles
22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
22/11/2010 06:27:59 PM
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Yea, you're helping exclude dozens, if not hundreds of potential RAFOlk.
22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM
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Watch out. The CIA is watching you post that. And then they're going to arrest EVERYONE.
22/11/2010 08:09:07 PM
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I used the search function, it was just the number of post that had those in their title
22/11/2010 07:45:18 PM
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I love how you made Adam into a positive
22/11/2010 05:40:33 PM
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*waves* Hi! *NM*
22/11/2010 10:17:52 PM
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Hey there!
22/11/2010 10:30:24 PM
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A great deal of us were underage, though.
23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM
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And look what a dirty mouth you got even without our help *NM*
23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM
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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
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Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though.
23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM
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