Please do not bypass the language filter

[IKnowPhysics]

13 minutes ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

Maybe, just maybe, we should also try to not use words that need to be filtered anyway.

Very respectfully, no thank you.  None of us here who are profane or vulgar are obscene.

 

11 minutes ago, pi2000 said:

The filter just removes the word entirely right?  Like *****, or *****, or *****, or *****.

*****, i guess not ?‍♂️

It used to, until we all realized nobody knew what the ***** we were saying.

[josie]

3 minutes ago, IKnowPhysics said:

Very respectfully, no thank you.  None of us here who are profane or vulgar are obscene.

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

15 hours ago, SDS said:

Thanks. The board is pretty good for the most part, but since someone took the time to complain we should do our best to clean it up. 

I've read through this entire thread and I think this is the main issue people have.  Just because someone complains, doesn't mean action should be taken.  This is a very clean forum as it is, and any request to censor the censored vulgarity does seem excessive.  And if a post was made to inform us of this issue, I personally take it as a warning that someones account can be suspended or deleted for a violation.   Maybe some clarification here will placate the masses?

**Edited to fix my terrible grammar skills.  Still too much passive voice but it is the internet...

Edited November 28, 2018 by SHAAAUGHT!!!

[Sabres Fan in NS]

16 minutes ago, darksabre said:

And let's not stop with the swear filter. I'm gonna need Assquatch to change his whole persona. It's damaging to a child. We're gonna have to close the beer thread too, can't talk about that kinda stuff around the kids.

What about GoPuckYourself?

[darksabre]

Personally, I think we should do more to connect with all the children on the board. 

I'll slide into your DMs if you slide into mine. Let's get 100. It's lit. 



What a bop. 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

4 minutes ago, SHAAAUGHT!!! said:

I've read through this entire thread and I think this is the main issue people have.  Just because someone complains, does not mean action needs to be taken.  This is a very clean forum as it is, any any request to censor the censored vulgarity does seem excessive.  And if a post was made to inform us of this issue, I personally take it as a warning that someones account can be suspended or deleted for a violation.   Maybe some clarification here will placate the masses?

 I believe SDS made things perfectly clear in his opening post.

[LTS]

16 minutes ago, darksabre said:

And let's not stop with the swear filter. I'm gonna need Assquatch to change his whole persona. It's damaging to a child. We're gonna have to close the beer thread too, can't talk about that kinda stuff around the kids.

Wow. You are going out of your way here.  The request was to stop bypassing the filter, not to stop swearing.  You can use all the words you'd like that get caught in the filter, that's why it's there.  If you bypass it you are just being a jerk about trying to get around the filters that SDS has in place already.  

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[shrader]

5 minutes ago, SHAAAUGHT!!! said:

I've read through this entire thread and I think this is the main issue people have.  Just because someone complains, doesn't mean action should be taken.  This is a very clean forum as it is, and any request to censor the censored vulgarity does seem excessive.  And if a post was made to inform us of this issue, I personally take it as a warning that someones account can be suspended or deleted for a violation.   Maybe some clarification here will placate the masses?

**Edited to fix my terrible grammar skills.  Still too much passive voice but it is the internet...

Here's the original post:

16 hours ago, SDS said:

With the Sabres change in fortune we are getting more traffic lately. Just because you don’t see everyone posting doesn’t mean they’re not reading. Please do not “disguise” F-bombs by changing the spelling, etc. we have had complaints. 

So it's not about censoring what is already censored.  It's about posts where people intentionally circumvent the filter.  As 11 stated, a very simple request.

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

I believe you are incorrect.  Now what?

[darksabre]

Just now, LTS said:

Wow. You are going out of your way here.  The request was to stop bypassing the filter, not to stop swearing.  You can use all the words you'd like that get caught in the filter, that's why it's there.  If you bypass it you are just being a jerk about trying to get around the filters that SDS has in place already.  

For the record sabrespace.net, sabrespace.club and more are available now for your purchase.

 

You're missing the point. We need to make the board more child safe. That's the issue. 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

39 minutes ago, IKnowPhysics said:

Very respectfully, no thank you.  None of us here who are profane or vulgar are obscene.

 

It used to, until we all realized nobody knew what the ***** we were saying.

I understand.  I like you as a poster and understand your style of posting.  I agree that you and others use of profane language are not obscene, as far as I can tell anyway.

Also, initially you are correct the filter just eliminated the bad words and left blanks to the imagination.  That was not ideal and Scott fixed that.

Edited November 28, 2018 by New Scotland (NS)
still fat fingers ...

[shrader]

1 minute ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

Also, initially you are correct the filter just eliminated the bad words and left blanks to the imagination.  That was not ideal and Scott fixed that.

And it gave us the Pominstein filter, which is the greatest thing in the history of this board... other than Wilbur.

[LTS]

1 minute ago, darksabre said:

You're missing the point. We need to make the board more child safe. That's the issue. 

No, I can read just fine.  I read what SDS posted. I read the request, I read the reason, I understood the reason and I had no problem with it.

I'm not the one who has to put the effort into making this place run. I don't get the complaints that the moderators get. I'm not so bothered by it that I can't handle a simple request.

If you don't want to abide by it, don't.  Whatever.

[Wilbur]

Woof!

 

 

*squirrel*

[darksabre]

1 minute ago, LTS said:

No, I can read just fine.  I read what SDS posted. I read the request, I read the reason, I understood the reason and I had no problem with it.

I'm not the one who has to put the effort into making this place run. I don't get the complaints that the moderators get. I'm not so bothered by it that I can't handle a simple request.

If you don't want to abide by it, don't.  Whatever.

Clearly you didn't read it. We have to protect the children. Bypassing the swear filter wasn't a problem before, ever. But now there are children. 

I just want to make sure we're doing everything we can to make this place as safe as possible. 

@Wilbur, that peeing is gonna have to go. It's crude and will teach children to pee on flags. 

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

Ok.  I would like to file a complaint that I'm not allowed to curse with asterisks on this message board.  If these kids have actually been to, watched, or listened to hockey games, they have heard the F word multiple times a season.  Sheltering children from censored curses on a sports message board in a time where the lead story on the evening news is payoffs to pornstars, or how powerful men can brag about grabbing women by the genitalia,... well it seems a bit asinine and tone deaf consider the lexicon of today.  IMO

[Eleven]

No one even said we weren't ALLOWED to do anything.  It's a simple request from a guy who does a lot to provide us with an entertaining forum.  Geez.

[LTS]

Just now, darksabre said:

Clearly you didn't read it. We have to protect the children. Bypassing the swear filter wasn't a problem before, ever. But now there are children. 

I just want to make sure we're doing everything we can to make this place as safe as possible. 

@Wilbur, that peeing is gonna have to go. It's crude and will teach children to pee on flags. 

When you manage something there are behaviors you let slide because most of the time you don't really consider it to be worth the effort to try and address.  Every so often, a person will point out that those behaviors are a concern.  It's at that point you have to make a decision, do I act upon that concern knowing that I had the same concern already or do I tell that person to get lost?

SDS chose to act upon it.  Your continued tirade about it is exactly why it probably was not addressed in the past.

Overall, as I see it, SDS made a request of the membership.  You can choose to honor it or not.  In his opinion it was time to take an action and he took it.  I think he addressed it fairly well and tried to provide substance.

He's trying to apply what he considers a REASONABLE control.  You are the one who keeps bringing up the other stuff.  Perhaps SDS will choose to act upon it now that you've made a request of it.  You never know!

 

 

[dudacek]

This thread is a microcosm of American politics.

[shrader]

4 minutes ago, SHAAAUGHT!!! said:

Ok.  I would like to file a complaint that I'm not allowed to curse with asterisks on this message board.  If these kids have actually been to, watched, or listened to hockey games, they have heard the F word multiple times a season.  Sheltering children from censored curses on a sports message board in a time where the lead story on the evening news is payoffs to pornstars, or how powerful men can brag about grabbing women by the genitalia,... well it seems a bit asinine and tone deaf consider the lexicon of today.  IMO

Here it is yet again:

16 hours ago, SDS said:

With the Sabres change in fortune we are getting more traffic lately. Just because you don’t see everyone posting doesn’t mean they’re not reading. Please do not “disguise” F-bombs by changing the spelling, etc. we have had complaints. 

Disguise" f-bombs by changing the spelling.  What part of that do you not understand?  It says absolutely nothing about not having asterisked posts.

[IKnowPhysics]

Just now, dudacek said:

This thread is a microcosm of American politics.

I love that we have a W10 streak and this is the rowdiest thread right now.  Let's turn it up to 11.

 

SDS big government conspiracy to coddle the snowflake libs by censoring hardworking content creators of SabresNation, actualized as black flag bans by nfreeman.  Chemtrails.

[Samson's Flow]

11 minutes ago, darksabre said:

Clearly you didn't read it. We have to protect the children. Bypassing the swear filter wasn't a problem before, ever. But now there are children. 

I just want to make sure we're doing everything we can to make this place as safe as possible. 

@Wilbur, that peeing is gonna have to go. It's crude and will teach children to pee on flags. 

Sorry Dark, I can't follow this rabbit hole you are going down. You are making this into something far bigger than what it is/was. This doesn't have anything to do with making this forum a *child safe environment* and is a simple don't use !, #, @, etc to replace vowels in swear words so they appear and aren't filtered out.

You sound like an old guy shouting "got off my lawn" or "kids these days" 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

6 minutes ago, dudacek said:

This thread is a microcosm of American politics.

Also, Canadian, Russian, Yugoslav ...

[Samson's Flow]

Just now, New Scotland (NS) said:

Also, Canadian, Russian, Yugoslav ...

Basically politics in general. 

[LTS]

Just now, Samson's Flow said:

Basically politics in general. 

It's not just politics.

It's a microcosm of the Internet and perhaps even the trend that real life is heading.