Turn off the swear filter!

Should we turn off the swear filter

  • Yes, I'm an adult

    Votes: 50 87.7%

  • No, bad words upset me

    Votes: 7 12.3%
  • Total voters
    57
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Am I the only person who finds the absurd attempts to police people's choice of words by replacing so-called rude words with asterisks incredibly annoying?

This is a forum for adults, it's not appropriate, nor, I suspect, interesting, for children to be hanging around a web forum with a bunch of 20 to 60-something hi-fi nerds. Besides which, children are unlikely to read anything here they can't hear in a playground.

I vote it gets switched off. Nobody needs hand-holding about which words to use.

-- Ian
 
I've recently been handed task of being a Mod. on a football forum. Language [on] the Terraces is more colourfuk (sic) tha[n] that of the hifi studio/living room, and this spills over into content of posts. Some are just decorative expletives and other times [its] personal abuse, not of other posters (we have a common bond in the team - altho I suspect v. little else in common) but of players and fans of other teams - and at the moment at least one of the players in our own team.

Someone posted to have 'language' moderated. Thus far we have the filter on but f**r-letter *'s are just as colourfuk, as with wft, fcuk (which is a particular non-sense for football), etc.

And we do have some youngsters - as its football - altho we try do have them make no disclosure of their ages (for safety reasons) and I've noticed that one or two do a bit of swearing, perhaps as disguise.

Well, pl excuse the diversion. I'd appreciate any comments on this new found responsibility.

... as to the question on the thread, I'd be content either way. But I'd rather not have to read an excess of decorative expletives (where other adjectives and adverbs would do the job better) nor heighten personal abuse of fellow forum members. imho of course.

[edits - poor expression, rather than bad language]
 
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On the forum I moderate we have a strict policy on swearing, but have a secret part where the filter is turned off.

However this site is aimed at adults so I don't think its so important but does a post full of F words really make a post better?

I wonder if **** is allowed on here (it is on the site I moderate). Erm perhaps it is a little on the strict side.
 
I am not saying we should turn it on, we all adults so know its not big or clever to swear, however certain things need swearing to have the same effect. My classic "I ****ing love you" to which I got a reply "I want your ****ing babies" - this while a long time ago :p: But the F word made all the difference.

I am not sure we need to swear at all on a HIFI forum though. I personaly think it should stay but should be relaxed, the F and C words need to be filtered, but does things like shi... and pizz, barsterward really need to be filtered?

We all adults though, so I am sure we can handle the odd bit of bad language its just the kids which may well be using this site. Its still a family site at the end of the day.
 
It starts with words.
Then discussions of fuses or owt else that some dickhead could hurt himself with.
Eventually even individual names and companies are barred

Turn it off.
 
What ****ing filter?


Oh that one. Seems reasonable to me as swearing is so commonplace on TV now it's lost its impact. What's the ****ing point?

Another option is needed on the poll: Not bothered.
 
Not bothered; I'd go along with that. If you want to swear it's easy to put that expression across regardless, so what difference does it make?
I gotta say though, that even though most most swearing doesn't bother me, there are one or two words that I do find offensive. I'm such a prude.:o

Shame that swearing has become so acceptable in some ways, as it does lose it's raison d'être as a consequence.
 

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