Lewdog
Gold Member
Just a day or two ago, I saw where a mod x'd out the word n*gger in a post and chewed everyone out for going around the filter, so I thought maybe they cared. Your explanation makes perfect sense though.And one of them refers to the female anatomy, beginning with C and ending with T. People get around the filter all the time by spelling it with a K, but hey, it's the thought that counts and I appreciate it.
Now a few of our more vile posters are using a new term to say exactly the same offensive thing: Front holer. I realize it would be difficult (impossible?) to create a filter for it, because "front" and "hole" are both words that are used in other ways, but could all the mods agree that if they are in a thread and see that term used that they will red - x it same as they would C*NT?
I said the same thing a long time ago about the "N" word. I remember reading a long time ago a mod saying that if someone got caught trying to circumvent the rule in that way it would be manually edited if reported. I saw someone do it and reported it, and was told no one ever said they would manually edit it... as you said here, it is the same thing if they just change a letter or use a character it is still an offensive word and people know they meant the term that is actually being referred to.
Here's the thing, I don't think they censored out the words because of them being offensive towards other posters, they did it so that if some racist idiot or some misogynistic idiot search for those terms, they won't find this site, and that Google and other search engines won't flag this site for using those terms and make it so that this site is black listed at libraries, school, and other places.
Hmm that's odd because that is the EXACT thing I said that I had seen before and was told it wasn't a forum policy to enforce.