(didn't log in / read the whole thread, sorry...)

Not only can people circumvent that, but when whole words are censored out, meaning is lost. I.e. you knew that they swore, but not what they said, which is a pain in the @$$. :)

Therefore, if we do censor, and someone trips the security, I would prefer that it says, "User: CENSORED" instead of their partial message.

If we make it site policy to avoid profanity, we could allow admins to ban people from posting in the CB for certain lengths of time (don't we already have this, and call it muzzling or something like that?).

I've been on PM quite a bit, recently, and I haven't seen any problems with profanity (used occassionally but not too much of a problem). Also, kids hear stuff at school at pretty early ages that matches up to anything here.

In reply to Re: Re: Profanity in the CB/Nodes by Anonymous Monk
in thread Profanity in the CB/Nodes by AcidHawk

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