Optionabilizable Swear Filter!

[Carpetted!]

The swear filter should be made so that you can turn it off or on. Or, members who are too young/don't state their birthday have all the little bad words blanked out in *, but members who are old enough, or turn it off or something can view the cusses. Not that I like swearing or watching people swear, but lots of people are evading the swear filter, rules or no rules, and... yeah. Just my opinion.

 

[Eszett]

People evade it readily. Mind you, but in accordance with the rules I can't really tell you how to do it. :/

Of course, this doesn't mean you should be doing it unless you want to break the rules. :/

 

[Carpetted!]

I know. I said that.

 

[~*Myuu the Ryuu*~]

how do you evade it?
i think that, yes, it should be able to turn on and off. though there are only about 5-6 cuss words so i don't think it really matters...

 

[JoshYEAH]

I'd tell you how to evade it but I get stick enough as it is for evading it myself ;o

Anyway, if there is a hack like this, it'd be pretty cool, alas, anti-hack-ebii won't install any, so, it's no good.

-Josh

 

[Magma Leader Maxie]

I don't know why you care so much, but anyway, your idea has too many flaws to be feasible:

members who are too young/don't state their birthday have all the little bad words blanked out in *

How does that stop me from saying I'm 90 years old?

And secondly, what's the point of a swear filter but to stop swearing in the forums? If some members are allowed to swear, it doesn't stop the younger ones reading the swears, unless this was made into some sort of function.

Lastly, the above descibed function doesn't exist because of the clearly faulty "please-state-your-age" thing.

And I doubt future versions of vBulletin will ever have swear filters that are optimisable to the measure you want. This is a bad suggestion.

 

[Carpetted!]

How does that stop me from saying I'm 90 years old?

If you're 2 and lie and say you're 90, then it would be your problem if you're offended by swears.

And secondly, what's the point of a swear filter but to stop swearing in the forums? If some members are allowed to swear, it doesn't stop the younger ones reading the swears, unless this was made into some sort of function.

No, people without the filter can see swears. People with can't.

 

[Magma Leader Maxie]

If you're 2 and lie and say you're 90, then it would be your problem if you're offended by swears.

Hmmm... this doesn't make it any the less flawed, though.... Perhaps you should have posted this in the Debate forum?

No, people without the filter can see swears. People with can't.

Well, I'm damn sure the described hack/mod doesn't exist. But perhaps you could check vbulletin.org for it or ask pika2000 who seems to have a whole index of the available hacks in her head.

 

[Wolf Goddess]

Well, I'm damn sure the described hack/mod doesn't exist. But perhaps you could check vbulletin.org for it or ask pika2000 who seems to have a whole index of the available hacks in her head.

I asked her about this a little while back. They were working on making it, but it is currently unavailable.

 

[Carpetted!]

Ah, okay then. I guess this can be closed because it's useless as of now then.

 

[intergalactic platypus]

When they make it though I would love to have it. I'm sick of having to use punctuation as letters to curse. Makes me feel n00bish

 

[Serebii]

Well dont use punctuation as letters to curse then...just dont curse

 

[qwerqwer]

I'm only eleven here but then, the filter doesn't work, so what's the age restriction then

 

[Carpetted!]

The filter does work. Look:
*** (my first swear...)
There's no age restriction yet. This is just an idea.

 

[MidnightScott]

-_-;

Yeah, we should be able to enable seeing swears - but oh well. **** the ****ing ****ers. -See...it's automatically censored ;P - You don't have to put *'s - it's automatically censored...

~Scott;229;

 

[SlimShady]

I agree. You should be able to type in words that you want censored, and how you want them censored. It would be good for kids under the age of 10.

 

[Wolf Goddess]

Well dont use punctuation as letters to curse then...just dont curse

But you see Serebii, if we can turn it off and on ourselves, no one can complain. ;0

 

[Twitch]

;227; Cuss filters should be turned off in Fan Fiction IMO. People should know that a PG-13 fic has swears.

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

Well, it is not as if we NEED to swear but it is a nice idea and when it comes I will be happier.

I do not think that many people do get offended by swear words anymore. Most young children know most swear words and use them anyway.

 

[cold_katanagirl]

Kind of surprised by how many people don't know how to pass the swear filter... It's easy to figure out. o_o

Anyway though, what's the point? The kids are the ones doing the cussing. =0