Chaps,
The question of profanities has been raised on another thread on this forum. In fact, the thread is still running as I type this, so you can all trundle off and look at it if you haven't yet seen it.
And, on the back of it, I am going to try a little experiment which I have wanted to conduct for a very long time. Emboldened by that discussion, and McNulter's comment that he only needs to moderate 10 posts or so a year, I am going to test the swear filter. However fear not, gentle reader, your eyes won't be assaulted by foul and hideous words as - by definition - those foul and hideous words won't appear! If a word is deemed to be foul and hideous then it will simply be replaced by a little row of stars. In order to see what has actually been typed then you will need to 'quote' the post with the word in it; until then, it will be shielded from your delicate little peepers.
Now this could get a bit boring if we're not careful - all the viewer will see is a lot of rows of stars. So perhaps we need to allude to the word that is being used, carefully, in order that the more lexicographically well-endowed may hazard a guess as to what was actually typed. (Such clues will, you must understand, mean that it shouldn't be necessary to quote many posts and therefore those foul and hideous words will remain hidden from view.)
Let me start with an example. The two biggies. Those two words that have been held as 'naughty' since time immemorial. In fact, I'm not even going to type them - we all know what they are. One rhymes with 'Duck' and the other one is like "King Canute" but with some letters removed. Gottit? Good.
Another one, that has never ceased to amuse me: Shag-pile. As in, a type of carpet.
And here's another one: shit. Sounds like 'Twit', but isn't.
Got the idea? Good. Now post yours up. And I'll offer a prize to the first person who finds a naughty swear word which slips past the filter. What is this prize? I don't know, but I'll think of something. A copy of the profanisaurus, perhaps. (And using the 'Preview' button to check large numbers of words is cheating, OK?)
Oli. (With his fingers firmly crossed that the mod stick has been wielded in the last five weeks, therefore I'm statistically likely to get away with this!)
The question of profanities has been raised on another thread on this forum. In fact, the thread is still running as I type this, so you can all trundle off and look at it if you haven't yet seen it.
And, on the back of it, I am going to try a little experiment which I have wanted to conduct for a very long time. Emboldened by that discussion, and McNulter's comment that he only needs to moderate 10 posts or so a year, I am going to test the swear filter. However fear not, gentle reader, your eyes won't be assaulted by foul and hideous words as - by definition - those foul and hideous words won't appear! If a word is deemed to be foul and hideous then it will simply be replaced by a little row of stars. In order to see what has actually been typed then you will need to 'quote' the post with the word in it; until then, it will be shielded from your delicate little peepers.
Now this could get a bit boring if we're not careful - all the viewer will see is a lot of rows of stars. So perhaps we need to allude to the word that is being used, carefully, in order that the more lexicographically well-endowed may hazard a guess as to what was actually typed. (Such clues will, you must understand, mean that it shouldn't be necessary to quote many posts and therefore those foul and hideous words will remain hidden from view.)
Let me start with an example. The two biggies. Those two words that have been held as 'naughty' since time immemorial. In fact, I'm not even going to type them - we all know what they are. One rhymes with 'Duck' and the other one is like "King Canute" but with some letters removed. Gottit? Good.
Another one, that has never ceased to amuse me: Shag-pile. As in, a type of carpet.
And here's another one: shit. Sounds like 'Twit', but isn't.
Got the idea? Good. Now post yours up. And I'll offer a prize to the first person who finds a naughty swear word which slips past the filter. What is this prize? I don't know, but I'll think of something. A copy of the profanisaurus, perhaps. (And using the 'Preview' button to check large numbers of words is cheating, OK?)
Oli. (With his fingers firmly crossed that the mod stick has been wielded in the last five weeks, therefore I'm statistically likely to get away with this!)
