The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches. - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 22/11/2010 12:06:48 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.
Other than that I can see no difference, but given the number of schools, businesses and homes where such filtering takes places, 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? Because they were VERY young when they joined wotmania, and had the parental controls available now existed then they might never have known it existed, let alone become integral to it.
Seems a high price to pay for the ability to say, "bitch" rather than "bitch".