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THECORBYLOON | 23:16 Tue 23rd Jan 2007 | Site Suggestions
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You have said that the use of profane language or symbols replacing letters in a profanity will lead to the post being banned.

I am not clear if the banning will be automatic or will still need three folk to report it.

If it is not the former, may I suggest that you tweak the censor (ooh er missus!) so that the post is either banned automatically or a warning is produced asking the poster to amend it before it will be allowed to appear?
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Or how about dont you just dont swear...I get the impression thats what it's asking then it doesn't matter how it gets banned or the need to produce a warning.
The only problem I have is if you post an innocent word with a profanity in it- what happens then?

Oh and TCL? Nowt wrong wiv a bit of tweakin' ;-)
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what do you mean an innocent word with a bit of profanity in it? how can it be innocent...if its not?
Djerba Words like S c u n t h o r p e - even this may not appear.
I put the surname C o c k e l l in just like that but someone reported me:-(
Yeah neti, that's exactly what I meant, sadly I couldn't think of an example at the time!
Does this mean that if I ask a question about my c-ockatiel I'll find myself banned?
you might, ida, and place names like Chorlton-thing-Hardy are also asterisked out.
There was an innocent post about a voluntary organisation called "coastw�tch".
This got ***'d out, and the following posts by explanation, highlighted an offensive word amidst a wholly innocent one.

This happens frequently with threads that mention the term for the male of the bird species, titles of television pop-music quizzes, inventors of rotary engines, etc etc.

Surely if we are to employ greater self-moderation in our answers, then, AB, for their part, should dust off the instruction manual for the "auto-censor", take it off the factory setting that it's been on for the last 2� years, and finally attempt to customise its dictionary, so that these "compound usages" do not get censored?

Is the new Ed british or American? It can make a difference. I was on an American chat forum and when asked what I was doing honestly replied that I was sitting drinking coffee thinking about rolling a fag. I got banned. I found out later that rolling a fag over in the UK has an entirely different meaning to rolling a fag in the USA. I don't feel the need to swear (I mean use/type real swear words) if I want to say c--k up or b---s up about something then I do and I think a lot of ABers here use much the same vocabulary as its a part of the English language and in consequence they get their post deleted or themselves banned? I mean - eh, wot???? Who decides what is actually a profanity? I agree that a poster should receive a warning to change or reword a post of theirs and not find it deleted/amended/banned/removed/ without prior warning.

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