I know, I feel bad. One of the favorite things I used to say back in the frumpin’ day was “Dude, it’s the internet, you can cuss here”.
Then slowly over the years, site after site after site after site after site started implementing rules against profanity. Not even in a somewhat sane, reasonable, or consistent way either. Which made it all the worse.
And now, annoying as it is for me personally, I just bite my t0%#$#gue and move on.
Still find it incredibly ridiculous that you can get banned from a certain R-word site for using the R-word, but calling someone or referring to them as a “cocksucker” is apparently perfectly acceptable.
I remember an MMO that had a profanity filter bleeping out parts of words with asterisks. I was so confused and frustrated why I couldn’t talk to other players about ****ysing whatever it was that needed ****ysis.
Yeah, they had a mechanic called analysing, their own filter made it impossible to talk a out and 13 year old me didn’t understand why it was censored. Talk about sane and reasonable.
Interesting how similar my case was. I picked up a 72 hour ban from that site for using the word “retard” in the context of providing advice on how to retard (aka slow) the growth of mold.
I know, I feel bad. One of the favorite things I used to say back in the frumpin’ day was “Dude, it’s the internet, you can cuss here”.
Then slowly over the years, site after site after site after site after site started implementing rules against profanity. Not even in a somewhat sane, reasonable, or consistent way either. Which made it all the worse.
And now, annoying as it is for me personally, I just bite my t0%#$#gue and move on.
Still find it incredibly ridiculous that you can get banned from a certain R-word site for using the R-word, but calling someone or referring to them as a “cocksucker” is apparently perfectly acceptable.
I remember an MMO that had a profanity filter bleeping out parts of words with asterisks. I was so confused and frustrated why I couldn’t talk to other players about ****ysing whatever it was that needed ****ysis.
Yeah, they had a mechanic called analysing, their own filter made it impossible to talk a out and 13 year old me didn’t understand why it was censored. Talk about sane and reasonable.
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Interesting how similar my case was. I picked up a 72 hour ban from that site for using the word “retard” in the context of providing advice on how to retard (aka slow) the growth of mold.