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The problem with the swear filter.
Now I think it's reasonable to censor words like **** and ****, but the exclusion of one term is really getting pretty annoying.
And that is **** as in **** Cheney and **** Gephardt. Presumably the censoring of these men's names may lead one to think the worse of them.
Does anyone really call anyone else a **** anymore? AFAIK there are no five year olds posting on Apolyton. Calling someone a "Gephardt", in my view, would be to expose oneself to ridicule - as would be being offended by such a label.
So can we please have **** (as in Gephardt) back?
PS. Yes, I did just type out the asterisks.
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January 20, 2004, 03:01
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January 20, 2004, 03:38
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I can say bullshit without any autocensor workarounds, but not **** Gephardt.
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January 20, 2004, 06:42
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Who is Dick Gephardt?
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January 20, 2004, 07:04
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Actually, it is F**k Gephardt. 
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January 20, 2004, 07:17
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Yeah, it's really so funny when every couple of days we get the following exchange:
"....and **** Cheney said that the trade minister...."
followed by
phhhhhtttttttt!!!!!!!
The filter should be changed, if only to prevent more occurrences of this silly joke.
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January 20, 2004, 07:33
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I wouldn't mind Dick being de-filtered. If anyone is infantile enough to use it as an insult, well can't they just be punished for it?
People post articles about US politics, and anyone glancing at the thread will think the article is full of swearing.
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January 20, 2004, 09:10
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Maybe we should just call all the Dicks "Richard"...
or "John Thomas".
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January 20, 2004, 09:21
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Doesn't help much with cut-n-paste articles though.
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January 20, 2004, 09:47
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hmmmm well richard cheney seems like a much nicer name than *d*i*c*k cheney ...
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January 20, 2004, 10:04
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That's all well and good, Rasputin, but what if we want to discuss literary greats like Charles Richardins and Emily Richardenson?
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January 20, 2004, 10:25
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Bien dit!
Monk thinks Emily Dickenson's a literary great!
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January 20, 2004, 10:26
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but what if we want to discuss literary greats
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That part alone is worth
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January 20, 2004, 11:22
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HI
I CANNOT TALK ABOUT SCOOBY DOO BECAUSE '****' IS FILTERED
WHOOPS
LIKE HOW MY FAVORITE CHARACTER IS ****GY
OH CRAP
I know the owners have mentioned they're not going to unfilter it, but could they at least make it so shag is only filtered when used alone?
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January 20, 2004, 11:46
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One of the posters here was named Sha ggy. At least, until he got sick of his name being censored every time someone quoted him. I forget who he is now though. 
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January 20, 2004, 12:29
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Do only I think that it is very odd that shag is restricted, yet crap doesn't seem to be?
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January 20, 2004, 12:38
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That's because the mods need "crap" in order to make statements like "cut the crap now" (Ming); "that's a load of crap" (MtG); and "I don't give a crap what you think, this is a privately owned site." (Ming again)
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January 20, 2004, 13:45
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And did you know Herman Melville wrote Moby ****?
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January 20, 2004, 15:07
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Censorship sucks ass.
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January 20, 2004, 17:23
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In a free society, I would have to agree. However, this is a privately owned web site, and it is the RIGHT of the owners to determine what type of words should be allowed, and to make any other rules they deem appropriate. Ownership does have it's advantages 
However... I would have to agree that censoring the "four letter first name" is kind of silly.
MARKOS... JUST SAY THE WORD and I will go in and remove that one from the list.
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January 20, 2004, 17:29
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Originally posted by Agathon
That's because the mods need "crap" in order to make statements like "cut the crap now" (Ming); "that's a load of crap" (MtG); and "I don't give a crap what you think, this is a privately owned site." (Ming again)
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Originally posted by Ming
In a free society, I would have to agree. However, this is a privately owned web site
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January 20, 2004, 17:43
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January 20, 2004, 17:53
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Originally posted by Ming
In a free society, I would have to agree. However, this is a privately owned web site, and it is the RIGHT of the owners to determine what type of words should be allowed, and to make any other rules they deem appropriate. Ownership does have it's advantages
However... I would have to agree that censoring the "four letter first name" is kind of silly.
MARKOS... JUST SAY THE WORD and I will go in and remove that one from the list.
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C'mon Markos, please.
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January 20, 2004, 21:03
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Originally posted by Ming
MARKOS... JUST SAY THE WORD and I will go in and remove that one from the list.
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January 20, 2004, 21:07
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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
One of the posters here was named Shaggy. At least, until he got sick of his name being censored every time someone quoted him. I forget who he is now though.
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ACooper. He drops by very rarely now.
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January 20, 2004, 21:24
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Thats right, thanks.
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January 20, 2004, 21:41
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Or, we could be accurate and call them "Pen*s Cheney" and "Pen*s Gephardt"
(C'mon, when you think how "d!ck" is censored but on the other hand we let many threads run to 100+ posts about only sex...it is rather silly.)
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January 20, 2004, 22:01
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In response to requests made above, some of which echo ones made in previous threads, the following modifications have been instituted to the censorship filter on Apolyton's forums:
* The word '****' is still not permitted, but for example 'shaggy' is.
* The word 'dick' is no longer censored.
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January 21, 2004, 04:44
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Originally posted by DanQ
In response to requests made above, some of which echo ones made in previous threads, the following modifications have been instituted to the censorship filter on Apolyton's forums:
* The word '****' is still not permitted, but for example 'shaggy' is.
* The word 'dick' is no longer censored.
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woohooo... well done .....
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January 21, 2004, 04:49
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Well, sort of unexpected, but welcome none the less.
Thank you, Dan.
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