As much as I would like to say we are all adults, there is the occasional complaint about a word being used here or there. So to make everyone happy, I have enabled word censoring on the forums. However, if you choose that you are adult enough to handle seeing the word, please visit your profile, go to Look and Layout and select "Leave words uncensored".
Interesting, I always assumed swearing incurred a ban... :evil:
*Ammo* * crap.
Interesting. It only blocks the eff word.
Yes, BBB :lol:...
It's a work in progress. Sonic and I were having a discussion about forum policy last night. Most things are case-by-case or common sense. But the thing that we were confused about was how to handle profanity. There is a rule explicitly barring vulgarity in the Overdrive Terminal, but there were no rules regarding vulgarity for the rest of the boards.
While vulgarity covers a wide range of indecency, Sonic and I assumed that profanity would be accepted as the norm for someting considered indecent. Profanity isn't a easy issue to deal with on a case-by-case basis when there is no rule premitting or barring it.
So, considering how rarely profanity has been used in the community (at least outside of flaming), it was assumed that some members may not take kindly to profanity here, or would at least not prefer to see it.
We decided it would be appropriate to enable the censor filter with some of the mroe severe profane words (words which would be extremely unlikely to be detected within other non-profane words).
Opinions are welcome. The BZII community has been largely a self-regulated one, and has functioned quite well that way. Hopefully the censor filter / profanity policy won't change that. We don't want to be soccer moms, after all :wink:.
Good, because I don't like seeing efff everywhere. Damn I'm ok with, but eff, oi! Block the N word too.
For whatever words are blocked, please don't try to sneak your way around the filter to push the word through. That only shows you're trying to be vulgar, and there is no reason for that.
Yes, if I catch you purposely bypassing the filter, I will ban you for a few days. Keep doing it and the ban will be permenent.
For those curious, here are the current words.
*Ammo*
*beep*
*Service Truck*
Take note, if you choose not to leave words uncensored, those were censored so. :P
Error: Anti-Censorship Option only shows in the forum default skin. Please add for those of us using SMF and Babylon.
And no, it doesn't keep if you switch to the default forum skin, change it, save, then switch back, I have just tried that.
Apparently the admin option to allow users to see words uncensored is applied per theme. Babylon claims it has the option on btw.
Uncensoring works now.
BTW, you realize that "Niger" is a country, right? :P
No I did not, I figured one g was a common mispelling.
Heh, geography failure :P
By the way, I must say that I do not find "Bitch" all that bad of a curse, as I use it often in the context of "this is gunna be bitch to fix," or, "son of a bitch, MORE SWARM!" I think it's a matter of opinion though.
Also, I think the word "*Service Truck*" should be added, as that is just offensive and cant really be used in any other context from insults (or cybering, but I highly doubt anyone does that here...right?).
True... didn't think about that usage.
Censoring option isn't available on the Dark Theme Black one either, could you enable it? seeing Service Trucks and AMMO everywhere is getting confusing and annoying
Quote from: AHadley on February 12, 2009, 11:41:59 AM
Censoring option isn't available on the Dark Theme Black one either, could you enable it? seeing Service Trucks and AMMO everywhere is getting confusing and annoying
It's there, just checked. You in "Look and Layout" options and selected the "leave the words uncensored"?
Also, bitch is no longer censored but *Service Truck* is.
Right, thanks... might have been whatever Steeveeo had. Either way, it's there now.
Are "*Ammo*" and "*Service Truck*" from the 1.2-ers? Because why are such words offensive? You need ammo to shoot, and the trucks to repair your ship. SOMEbody please clarify!!!
You sir, are a wiggly worm sir...
No seriously, don't be dumb.
Turn off censoring and THEN look at those words in the list AGAIN.
I think he might be doing it deliberately.
I thought it was off by default...
LOL! So funny having the admins replace those words with Service Truck and Ammo!
Yet still I like having Service truck instead of "EFF"
Sweet. Any time I wanna say Service trucks, i'll just say *Service Truck* instead.
Hmmm, I wonder what tigger is up to these days.
Notice most of the people here have uncensoring on. Or so I think...
EDIT: GOD you just spoke a vulgar word!!! LOL over-reacting...
I found a good configuration for a morphed warrior in 1.3. It's quill/emp
First you link fang+empsteam using weapons linking, morph and run up to a GT/asstank/mauler and use both attacks at once. It stops the unit from firing while killing it at the same time. The only problem is that EMP stream is hard on *Ammo*, and you're still vulnerable to getting backstabbed.
My favorite weapon combination on a warrior would have to be lightning+gauss (morphed). It essentially makes you into a fast moving version of the titan -- and you can snipe out a jammer in one hit of a linked lightning/gauss attack from ~180m. If you had more than one *Service Truck* service you though, you would essentially be a more versatile version of the titan.
lmfao. you ARE Service Trucked off today
You, sir, have just won the internet. :-D
VSMIT.
That's some serious OT up there :lol:
Quote from: VSMIT on February 20, 2009, 07:01:40 PM
You, sir, have just won the internet. :-D
VSMIT.
Yes, and please prepare to download 200 exabytes of data in the form of a .ZIP, that, when extracted, will kill the entire world...
*Off Topic*
EDIT: What's a GT?
Gun Tower
ROFin and LOLin here...
Personally I think you're all *Service Truck*'d to *Ammo*, and that you should all go pound *Maulers* up your *Braddock*'s as far as you can reach...
Bunchof pansy *Sentries* around here...
:evil:
-Av-
(You know, some of this is starting to sound a little "Darmok, and Jalad... on the ocean."...)
Quote from: Avatar on February 22, 2009, 11:27:56 AM
ROFin and LOLin here...
Personally I think you're all *Service Truck*'d to *Ammo*, and that you should all go pound *Maulers* up your *Braddock*'s as far as you can reach...
Bunchof pansy *Sentries* around here...
:evil:
-Av-
(You know, some of this is starting to sound a little "Darmok, and Jalad... on the ocean."...)
ROFL! I think I know where to go for more suggestions if anymore words are suggested to be censored. :P
change something to *AAAAAAAAAAH MORE SWARM!*
"Pansy" is a little offensive, change it to... hmm... *BOOM*
Pansy = Weakling/Wimp, not offensive.
Its an americanism. Where you're from it's probably spelled "whimp" but in north america its spelled as "wimp"
I just thought of a new curse word replacement. Son of a *Mega Statue* that was a hard game!
:lol:
Why you americans have to corrupt our language like that... :roll: :-P
Because we have others here from all over that cause the language to evolve faster.
I hate spanglish...
Quote from: Nielk1 on February 24, 2009, 12:11:40 PM
I hate spanglish...
Most hybrid languages tend to be annoying.
I'm sure Arby can relate to Singlish, and chinglish is very confusing and quite offensive when you read it phonetically
Don't read what I say, read what I mean. :wink:
VSMIT.
Quote from: AHadley on February 24, 2009, 12:33:39 PM
Most hybrid languages tend to be annoying.
I'm sure Arby can relate to Singlish, and chinglish is very confusing and quite offensive when you read it phonetically
Bleh :oops:, and what's chinglish? Somebody split that post into the OT...
Chinese English :lol:
Better still, let's get back to word censoring :P
As a note, to those of you who are purposefully censoring themselves with the *<bz2term>* stuff, whether it is a joke or otherwise, please stop.
I know it's not the censoring filter, I have that turned off. I am finding that the artificial censors are even more agitating to read than the actual curses.
It's not a funny joke (and hasn't been since the second page of this thread), and doesn't present itself as a good solidifier for any arguments/yelling.
In order of annoyance, from least to greatest, in this instance:
- Fake swears (frikkin, frik, dagnammit).
- Actual swears.
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- Artificial Censors.
Yes, that is a large jump between the first two and the last, and that even ain't to scale. So please stop with the overused jokes, they cease to be funny.
Quote from: Steeveeo on February 27, 2009, 12:24:31 PMYes, that is a large jump between the first two and the last, and that even ain't to scale. So please stop with the overused jokes, they cease to be funny.
That's a little over the top :-o. You sound like you're trying to speak for the whole community, when some (most) people think it's actually funny.
We're better off having people (possibly young people) read *Ammo* rather than
"other word". That's why the censor was put there in the first place.
If people try to get around it by using what you call "fake swears" to make sure their language is displayed, that's where the problem lies.
I've used the so called 'fake swears' while we had no filter to avoid actual swearing dagnammit! :roll:
Quote from: Feared_1 on February 27, 2009, 03:40:23 PM
That's a little over the top :-o. You sound like you're trying to speak for the whole community, when some (most) people think it's actually funny.
We're better off having people (possibly young people) read *Ammo* rather than "other word". That's why the censor was put there in the first place.
If people try to get around it by using what you call "fake swears" to make sure their language is displayed, that's where the problem lies.
You missed the point.
I don't mind the actual censored words, but constantly faking a censor for the sake of a joke got about as old as a 4Chan meme right off the bat.
Rule of Puns and One Liners: Say it once, maybe twice, or don't say it at all.
Yes. Steeveeo has an obvious hatred of people making the same joke more than once.
I share that in the real world, but on the internet and TV its fine.
What the *Ammo Pod* Steeveeo? It's just a joke. We're not using it on anything important that you HAVE to read. If reading all this is such as *Service Truck* than stop reading it.
New swear words are being invented all the time. These are just the BZ2 ones.
Amazing how some people want censors, and others want nothing more than to find a way around them...
Warning, mildly offensiveness coming up here...
In Tribes/T2 at first it was just using symbols for letters, like $uck$ @$$,
Once the censors were updated the players that wanted to express themselves just started making scripts that pieced together sections of the audio snips... getting them to say things that couldn't be censored.
It's a basic human need, I think, to overcome obstacles and/or find ways around blockades...
-Av-
Only if they are blocking something you want/need Av.
I personally couldn't care less about censoring. I don't consider even the 'worst' swearwords to be even slightly offensive unless they are directed towards me.
Along with BBB, on the internet i too couldnt care less about the *fake* swearing crap going on. bit of light-hearted humour never hurt anyone.
The only way to survive in an Internet environment is to take NOTHING personally. Ultimately we're all just voices in the dark, with no substance and therefore no real meaning.
-Av-
Except for GSH, what he says goes! :-P