Swearing

[Batman]

I think we've established that bar Daxter we're all over a certain age, and therefore not likely to be offended by the odd naughty word.


I understand about the 'expanding yuor vocabulary' business but come on, decent usage of the old f u c k can embellish an argument.


Therefore Keveh I ask you to remove the filter and let the full England language emerge, warts and all.

[communistworkethic]

I think we've established that bar Daxter we're all over a certain age, and therefore not likely to be offended by the odd naughty word.


I understand about the 'expanding yuor vocabulary' business but come on, decent usage of the old f u c k can embellish an argument.


Therefore Keveh I ask you to remove the filter and let the full England language emerge, warts and all.

Maybe replacing it with a spellcheck facility, eh?

[americantrotter]

It doesnt always stop it.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Something we don't need to change, in my view. The site works very well without all the swear words. And no, I am most certainly not a prude!

[Batman]

F*ckin prude.

[chris]

If non-members were browsing the site and saw it littered with obscenities, it might discourage them from joining. Do you want that?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

F*ckin prude.

[Bench]

If non-members were browsing the site and saw it littered with obscenities, it might discourage them from joining. Do you want that?

Exactly. Nail on head stuff that.

[keveh]

I don't think it should be removed, people post quite happily without having to use swear words, and I don't think that they upset if a few get automatically changed.

This being the first time it's ever been brough up being the proof.

[hisroyalgingerness]

yeah feck off Batman

[Daxter]

Wax off Batman.

[Batman]

we need swearing

[General Mannerheim]

If non-members were browsing the site and saw it littered with obscenities, it might discourage them from joining. Do you want that?

fúck em!

[Batman]

christ yes we want that!

[CrazyHorse]

Soz, but I like the fact that we don't have swearing. KUMB allows swear words and it makes them look like a right bunch of cu*ts which is why for that reason alone I think we should continue to filter them.

[Batman]

fooking losers!

[hisroyalgingerness]

think it's fecking disrepsectful myself

[Montreal Wanderer]

Soz, but I like the fact that we don't have swearing. KUMB allows swear words and it makes them look like a right bunch of cu*ts which is why for that reason alone I think we should continue to filter them.

I would agree with the filter, although not particularly for the KUMB reason. Most people should be capable of conveying their thoughts without interjecting a swearword every time an adjective is required (or a noun for that matter). Indeed, swearwords are far more effective when used rarely in extreme circumstances IMHO, and text is much more easily read without them there all the time.

[Dujon]

Hear, hear!

Most of us swear on occasion; I try to contain my profanities to those when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

This does not mean I'm attempting to emulate a saint, as a saint I am most certainly not. As Monty points out, the overuse of such terms takes away from them their intrinsic essence and thus their value in expressing an emotion.

Then again, nor am I a supporter of silly acronyms TBH.

[fatshaft]

Just posting sop that my name is last poster in every forum on the main page. Ya feck*.