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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 1024 Views
Fuck no. Are you shitting me? There's no damn chance we can swear. - 22/11/2010 05:01:48 AM 644 Views
You DARE presume to assault my delicate ears with your nasty coarse sailor talk??? - 22/11/2010 05:05:23 AM 676 Views
Delicate? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:06:19 AM 367 Views
Yes? - 22/11/2010 05:37:36 AM 540 Views
I don't know, can you? *NM* - 22/11/2010 05:54:20 AM 384 Views
Why not try it an find out. *NM* - 22/11/2010 06:05:35 AM 343 Views
hell to the fuck yes! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:51:07 AM 332 Views
I can't think of underage users - 22/11/2010 11:32:40 AM 730 Views
Well - 22/11/2010 11:47:13 AM 729 Views
That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 11:58:37 AM 647 Views
Re: That's a good point of course - 22/11/2010 12:11:25 PM 765 Views
THANK YOU! *hugs* - 22/11/2010 12:28:38 PM 594 Views
Back off! - 22/11/2010 12:31:13 PM 647 Views
'SOK: I hugged a man (in public)... - 22/11/2010 12:35:16 PM 526 Views
I never had that issue. - 22/11/2010 05:38:59 PM 654 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 05:53:24 PM 400 Views
The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches. - 22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM 716 Views
How many posts have there been with swear words in titles? - 22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM 566 Views
Are you telling me monitors are THAT horribly inefficient? - 22/11/2010 02:55:43 PM 722 Views
Scanning a CoC requires a human (or significantly improved parsing), whereas spidering can be dumb - 22/11/2010 03:06:19 PM 649 Views
I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy. - 22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM 759 Views
Subroutines such as what? - 22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM 972 Views
Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now. - 22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM 953 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 628 Views
OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none. - 23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM 673 Views
well... - 23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM 682 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM 658 Views
Re: well... - 23/11/2010 06:42:43 PM 634 Views
Yes, a lot of people don't seem to want RAFO "invaded" by new people. - 23/11/2010 07:03:14 PM 708 Views
new people is not the same as children. *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM 330 Views
True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college. - 23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM 667 Views
Please. - 23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM 680 Views
I resent that. - 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM 555 Views
Sadface. *NM* - 23/11/2010 10:12:31 PM 343 Views
... and later additions like Ghavrel? - 23/11/2010 10:24:28 PM 729 Views
188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles - 22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM 653 Views
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck - 22/11/2010 06:27:59 PM 640 Views
Yea, you're helping exclude dozens, if not hundreds of potential RAFOlk. - 22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM 797 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 682 Views
*NM* - 22/11/2010 09:36:20 PM 653 Views
Who said anything about regulation? - 23/11/2010 01:45:21 AM 698 Views
I love how you made Adam into a positive - 22/11/2010 05:40:33 PM 708 Views
For good or ill, Adam was very much a part of wotmania. - 22/11/2010 07:40:03 PM 701 Views
*waves* Hi! *NM* - 22/11/2010 10:17:52 PM 345 Views
Hey there! - 22/11/2010 10:30:24 PM 830 Views
A few honest answers. - 22/11/2010 10:54:30 PM 584 Views
Thanks - 22/11/2010 11:07:00 PM 587 Views
Perfectly alright. *NM* - 22/11/2010 11:12:43 PM 219 Views
A great deal of us were underage, though. - 23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM 724 Views
And look what a dirty mouth you got even without our help *NM* - 23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM 321 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 615 Views
Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though. - 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM 654 Views
*sniggers* - 24/11/2010 02:27:22 PM 530 Views
Has anyone actually voiced that concern? - 24/11/2010 02:28:23 PM 638 Views
yes. - 22/11/2010 12:05:23 PM 578 Views
True. - 22/11/2010 06:45:58 PM 635 Views
I love how the original poster hasn't responded to any of this. - 23/11/2010 03:11:58 AM 623 Views
Probably still in shock. - 23/11/2010 01:52:01 PM 662 Views

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