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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 911 Views
Fuck no. Are you shitting me? There's no damn chance we can swear. - 22/11/2010 05:01:48 AM 533 Views
You DARE presume to assault my delicate ears with your nasty coarse sailor talk??? - 22/11/2010 05:05:23 AM 563 Views
Delicate? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:06:19 AM 318 Views
Yes? - 22/11/2010 05:37:36 AM 415 Views
I don't know, can you? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:54:20 AM 338 Views
Why not try it an find out. *NM* - 22/11/2010 06:05:35 AM 297 Views
hell to the fuck yes! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:51:07 AM 293 Views
I can't think of underage users - 22/11/2010 11:32:40 AM 612 Views
Well - 22/11/2010 11:47:13 AM 625 Views
That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 11:58:37 AM 532 Views
Re: That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 12:11:25 PM 652 Views
THANK YOU! *hugs* - 22/11/2010 12:28:38 PM 475 Views
Back off! - 22/11/2010 12:31:13 PM 526 Views
'SOK: I hugged a man (in public)... - 22/11/2010 12:35:16 PM 404 Views
I never had that issue. - 22/11/2010 05:38:59 PM 549 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 05:53:24 PM 350 Views
The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches. - 22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM 576 Views
How many posts have there been with swear words in titles? - 22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM 459 Views
Are you telling me monitors are THAT horribly inefficient? - 22/11/2010 02:55:43 PM 604 Views
Scanning a CoC requires a human (or significantly improved parsing), whereas spidering can be dumb - 22/11/2010 03:06:19 PM 534 Views
I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy. - 22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM 645 Views
Subroutines such as what? - 22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM 835 Views
Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now. - 22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM 826 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 523 Views
OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none. - 23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM 559 Views
well... - 23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM 571 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM 534 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 06:42:43 PM 516 Views
Yes, a lot of people don't seem to want RAFO "invaded" by new people. - 23/11/2010 07:03:14 PM 601 Views
new people is not the same as children. *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM 286 Views
True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college. - 23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM 560 Views
Please. - 23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM 567 Views
I resent that. - 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM 426 Views
Sadface. *NM* - 23/11/2010 10:12:31 PM 298 Views
... and later additions like Ghavrel? - 23/11/2010 10:24:28 PM 615 Views
188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles - 22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM 545 Views
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck - 22/11/2010 06:27:59 PM 529 Views
Yea, you're helping exclude dozens, if not hundreds of potential RAFOlk. - 22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM 685 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 564 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 09:36:20 PM 534 Views
Who said anything about regulation? - 23/11/2010 01:45:21 AM 580 Views
I love how you made Adam into a positive - 22/11/2010 05:40:33 PM 586 Views
For good or ill, Adam was very much a part of wotmania. - 22/11/2010 07:40:03 PM 581 Views
*waves* Hi! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:17:52 PM 297 Views
Hey there! - 22/11/2010 10:30:24 PM 708 Views
A few honest answers. - 22/11/2010 10:54:30 PM 465 Views
Thanks - 22/11/2010 11:07:00 PM 480 Views
Perfectly alright. *NM* - 22/11/2010 11:12:43 PM 177 Views
A great deal of us were underage, though. - 23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM 608 Views
And look what a dirty mouth you got even without our help *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM 270 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 508 Views
Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though. - 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM 551 Views
*sniggers* - 24/11/2010 02:27:22 PM 410 Views
Has anyone actually voiced that concern? - 24/11/2010 02:28:23 PM 516 Views
yes. - 22/11/2010 12:05:23 PM 459 Views
True. - 22/11/2010 06:45:58 PM 521 Views
I love how the original poster hasn't responded to any of this. - 23/11/2010 03:11:58 AM 539 Views
Probably still in shock. - 23/11/2010 01:52:01 PM 547 Views

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