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Thread Author: L'escargot Replies: 16
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 07:50 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - L'escargot
Just lately there's been an increase in the use of asterisks in place of letters to enable the sneaky use of swear words. It's not funny and it's not clever. The offenders will know to whom I'm referring.
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 08:01 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - smokie
Vx, PU, do we have a vacancy for another moderator at the moment?

Thought not, end of interview but we'll keep your name on file :-)





IMO it's also not that serious either. In most cases the swear filter is fitting the stars, not the poster. Once people see how stupid it looks they will (usually) stop doing it. If and when it becomes really excessive or offensive the mods will usually step in.
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 09:56 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - L'escargot
Used to be a running battle between old smokie and me,
But now I've got a six foot Shakespeare ...........

:-D
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 09:56 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Zero
they are not swear words, they are asterisks.

If you recognise them as swear words, thats in your own mind,

Tough ****
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Love MWAH!
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 10:09 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Skoda
*** ****** **** ****** ******! ***** ** ***** *** **** ***** **** **.

BUT!

**** ******** ***!!!





P.S. yeah it's just random stars, if you sat trying to work out the words, even for a split second, then my work is done here :-P
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 10:20 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Fursty Ferret
You've never heard a Janet and John story on Terry Wogan's show, have you? ;-)
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 10:26 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Iffy
The swear filter sometimes sees a rude word where there isn't one.

I wonder what it makes of the Humberside town of Scunthorpe?


Edit: Oh well, there's always the exception to prove the rule. :)


Last edited by: ifithelps on Tue 29 Jun 10 at 10:27
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 10:30 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Zero
its happy with cockfosters as well
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 10:37 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Iffy
How about Wyre Piddle?
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 10:41 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - VxFan
Yes, ok, no need to test it. That's already been extensively done in the old place and tweaked here where necessary.

It's inevitable that the occasional innocent word will get caught by it, but there's nothing we can do about that when an innocent word may well also contain a swear word. The filter isn't intelligent enough to differentiate between the two. This isn't the only forum where this happens, btw.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 29 Jun 10 at 10:43
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 11:14 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - John H
>> Yes, ok, no need to test it. That's already been extensively done in the old
>> place and tweaked here where necessary.
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The old place seems to have a newer filter which does not allow scrap or scrappage without stars, whereas the Khoosys filter there used to allow all that crap.

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 Tue 29 Jun 10 11:15 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Zero
It didnt used to, we had to invent carp.
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 11:15 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - R.P.
Probably an older version where a certain mod thought that crap was a swear word.
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 11:20 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Bromptonaut
Can we refer to air fresheners, or after shave, including the word spice?

(seems so on preview; the old place ignored the e and saw word used in the Americas as a disparaging reference to Hispanics)
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 11:20 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Webmaster
>> The old place seems to have a newer filter which does not allow scrap or
>> scrappage without stars,

It also doesn't allow www.car4play.com for some strange reason :)
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 11:33 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - Skoda
>> but there's nothing we can do about that when an innocent word may well also contain a swear word.

Your punishment for this public lying is to read the owl book. Cover to cover!

(for the lucky folks who don't have to put up with IT, the owl book is a book on Regular Expressions, an obscure language for describing patterns to be matched in text. It's called the owl book because it's got a picture of an owl on the front cover, all the O'Reilly books in the series have an animal of some sort on the front cover).
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 Tue 29 Jun 10 12:18 
 Getting round the "no swearing" rule - bathtub tom
Can I mention my penny farthing now?

It would seem not. Anyone else got a Victorian bike with a large wheel at the front and a small one at the rear, named after a penny and a quarter of a penny?

As said, innocent words can get picked on by the swear filter. If we see this has occured, we'll edit the post and correct things - as I've just done here
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 29 Jun 10 at 12:58
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