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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 1157 Views
Fuck no. Are you shitting me? There's no damn chance we can swear. - 22/11/2010 05:01:48 AM 810 Views
You DARE presume to assault my delicate ears with your nasty coarse sailor talk??? - 22/11/2010 05:05:23 AM 797 Views
Delicate? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:06:19 AM 424 Views
Yes? - 22/11/2010 05:37:36 AM 673 Views
I don't know, can you? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:54:20 AM 442 Views
Why not try it an find out. *NM* - 22/11/2010 06:05:35 AM 402 Views
hell to the fuck yes! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:51:07 AM 387 Views
I can't think of underage users - 22/11/2010 11:32:40 AM 857 Views
Well - 22/11/2010 11:47:13 AM 852 Views
That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 11:58:37 AM 769 Views
Re: That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 12:11:25 PM 897 Views
THANK YOU! *hugs* - 22/11/2010 12:28:38 PM 726 Views
Back off! - 22/11/2010 12:31:13 PM 777 Views
'SOK: I hugged a man (in public)... - 22/11/2010 12:35:16 PM 660 Views
I never had that issue. - 22/11/2010 05:38:59 PM 787 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 839 Views
How many posts have there been with swear words in titles? - 22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM 700 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 772 Views
I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy. - 22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM 894 Views
Subroutines such as what? - 22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM 1117 Views
Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now. - 22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM 1134 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 770 Views
OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none. - 23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM 798 Views
well... - 23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM 806 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM 788 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 06:42:43 PM 762 Views
Yes, a lot of people don't seem to want RAFO "invaded" by new people. - 23/11/2010 07:03:14 PM 840 Views
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 804 Views
Please. - 23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM 812 Views
I resent that. - 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM 685 Views
Sadface. *NM* - 23/11/2010 10:12:31 PM 398 Views
... and later additions like Ghavrel? - 23/11/2010 10:24:28 PM 847 Views
188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles - 22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM 777 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 932 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 813 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 09:36:20 PM 778 Views
Who said anything about regulation? - 23/11/2010 01:45:21 AM 826 Views
I love how you made Adam into a positive - 22/11/2010 05:40:33 PM 887 Views
For good or ill, Adam was very much a part of wotmania. - 22/11/2010 07:40:03 PM 829 Views
*waves* Hi! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:17:52 PM 396 Views
Hey there! - 22/11/2010 10:30:24 PM 977 Views
A few honest answers. - 22/11/2010 10:54:30 PM 717 Views
Thanks - 22/11/2010 11:07:00 PM 721 Views
Perfectly alright. *NM* - 22/11/2010 11:12:43 PM 283 Views
A great deal of us were underage, though. - 23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM 845 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 747 Views
Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though. - 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM 775 Views
*sniggers* - 24/11/2010 02:27:22 PM 668 Views
Has anyone actually voiced that concern? - 24/11/2010 02:28:23 PM 764 Views
yes. - 22/11/2010 12:05:23 PM 715 Views
True. - 22/11/2010 06:45:58 PM 772 Views
I love how the original poster hasn't responded to any of this. - 23/11/2010 03:11:58 AM 762 Views
Probably still in shock. - 23/11/2010 01:52:01 PM 782 Views

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