Swear filter

Erimus74 said:
I don't swear, never swore at work I've worked there for over 30 years, or home, my work colleagues swear all the time, I just chose not to, it doesn't offend me one bit, it would if it were aimed at me but not in normal conversation
I don't understand why people would want to swear all the time, infront of people, on here, but each to their own
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When I was teaching I tried to explain to the kids, who in their general conversations swore at least once a sentence, how swear words lost their effect of used all the time. Of course they looked at me glassy eyed. I then went into a diatribe using several expletives for two or three minutes. Jaws dropped and I even got a few On I see what you mean now at the end of the lesson.
Go ahead and swear lads if that's what you want I don't mind but only when really necessary.
 
Swearing is ok in the right setting. I reckon most of us are "self calibrating" regarding when we do it. So some settings at work and with friends etc is ok. In mixed company, with kids or family it's out for me. A message board is mixed company as far as I'm concerned so I'm happy to see asterisks which can still get the point across.
 
I'm a great advocate of a well placed profanity, swearing is all part of our rich Anglo-Saxon heritage (as previously shared, the Vikings called kestrels 'windf**kers'!).

However, this is a privately owned site and therefore I'm perfectly happy to go with the wishes of the owner, in the same way as I wouldn't start swearing indiscriminately in someone's front room while they were being polite. It's just about showing a modicum of consideration.
 
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When selling the fanzine outside matches I noticed dad's giving the fanzine to their kids like a comic. There were never many swear words in the fanzine anyway but I decided to use an asterix from then on. Almost always.
I suppose that is the benefit of selling as well as editing you can get to see the readers. With the website I wanted to be as inclusive as possible really and why not make it follow the fanzine ways/methods?
But also google are exceptionally strict. We were the first football message board to be allowed to sign up thanks to the recommendation of a mate and Boro fan. But their robots trawl back through past pages. And they look for words that are deemed profanity in US. They might not be so bad here.
I have had to go back and edit really daft words before from 5 years in the past.
Hopefully, they are not so strict now but am not going to experiment
Once you are kicked out it is very hard to get back in and they are almost bigger than all other online advertisers added together.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
Personally I find it offensive to be censored, as a proper Teeside engineer for 40 years why wouldn’t i speak on here as I would at work. All adults and all purveyors of the Teesside language.

Since i also speak Spanish and have dual keyboards it’s easy to f*** over the rules, but I’d rather not, I’d rather be treated as an adult.
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that's more offensive than calling me a F***ing ****** ;)
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
Personally I find it offensive to be censored, as a proper Teeside engineer for 40 years why wouldn’t i speak on here as I would at work. All adults and all purveyors of the Teesside language

What has been a proper Teesside engineer for over 40 years got to do with anything & if you carried out a HAZOP meeting in a room full from operators to managemnet, why would you want to use swear words
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rob_fmttm said:
When selling the fanzine outside matches I noticed dad's giving the fanzine to their kids like a comic. There were never many swear words in the fanzine anyway but I decided to use an asterix from then on. Almost always.
I suppose that is the benefit of selling as well as editing you can get to see the readers. With the website I wanted to be as inclusive as possible really and why not make it follow the fanzine ways/methods?
But also google are exceptionally strict. We were the first football message board to be allowed to sign up thanks to the recommendation of a mate and Boro fan. But their robots trawl back through past pages. And they look for words that are deemed profanity in US. They might not be so bad here.
I have had to go back and edit really daft words before from 5 years in the past.
Hopefully, they are not so strict now but am not going to experiment
Once you are kicked out it is very hard to get back in and they are almost bigger than all other online advertisers added together.
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That started off well Rob but I think it's a sad sign of the times that you have to doff your cap to corporate giants like google.

It's your site, not theirs.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
Personally I find it offensive to be censored, as a proper Teeside engineer for 40 years why wouldn’t i speak on here as I would at work. All adults and all purveyors of the Teesside language.

Since i also speak Spanish and have dual keyboards it’s easy to f*** over the rules, but I’d rather not, I’d rather be treated as an adult.
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Remember being in a plant control room with a German engineer when someone returned to report on a problem ............... "the f**king f**kers f**ked" he declared. The German looked at me and asked "what would be the English language without the word f**k?"
 
The thing I find interesting are terms like ***** and moron. I think moron got bleeped out on the old board but ***** didn't. But in England certainly ***** is seen as far more offensive than moron.
 
I actually have to insert one word at a time in this swear filter.
I would rather not have to spend all afternoon now doing that.
 
red_harrington said:
That started off well Rob but I think it's a sad sign of the times that you have to doff your cap to corporate giants like google.

It's your site, not theirs.
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It is inevitable sadly. But I already had a swear filter installed because I wanted the message board to mirror values of the fanzine - and from selling the fanzine I know there are many young people that read both. In some cases very young indeed. I would therefore feel I was irresponsible to allow swearing.
 
I find targeted advertising more offensive than swearing but would be sorry if I caused anyone more work than necessary.
 
rob_fmttm said:
It is inevitable sadly. But I already had a swear filter installed because I wanted the message board to mirror values of the fanzine - and from selling the fanzine I know there are many young people that read both. In some cases very young indeed. I would therefore feel I was irresponsible to allow swearing.
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Fair enough! I wasn't criticizing, just saying like. You've done a great job with this board.
 
chickenrunner said:
Remember being in a plant control room with a German engineer when someone returned to report on a problem ............... "the f**king f**kers f**ked" he declared. The German looked at me and asked "what would be the English language without the word f**k?"
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That's a great quote, heard that many times & always brings a smile to my face, as I mentioned I don't swear & it doesn't offend me
 
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