(08-28-2018, 11:55 AM)Marburg Wrote: Show me exactly where I posted, "Everything I don't like is not a valid opinion."
I freely admit I'm a combative bastard, but show me one single post that of all those plenty of people you refer to & say it in your own words. Then, explain in your own words how my position is unreasonable.
I would welcome that.
If I'm wrong, please prove it...I'm cool with that too.
Here are some examples you just dismissed as not valid that I found just by skimming through the last page.
Essentially all valid opinions as to why censoring shouldn't really be there that you've dismissed as "I have not seen a valid opinion yet".
Also if you think having no rule would mean everyone would swear all the time I highly doubt it. In fact I've seen less swearing in communities where such a rule does not exist than from you in this thread while bypassing the filter, thus further proving the point that this censorship is fairly useless and generally only hurts those who haven't yet learned how to get around it. And I'm talking about communities that live on memes and rivalry banter.
How much more tasteful is writing "effin" or "frack/frak" when everyone who understands that would instantly tie it to the f-word anyways? Or maybe writing f[b][/b]uck to cheat the bbcode and have the word display proper? Those aren't more tasteful in any way, just creative ways to cheat the system that people learn over time. Or maybe that newbie ingame that simply writes "fak u" in broken english and passes the ingame "sanity" check as well.
The forced moderation of swear words simply adds an extra layer of work for people who write so that they must ensure their content either has the workarounds or doesn't include mean words. It's even more annoying ingame when you slip in a single swear word in a long sentence and then have to write it all over again but this time with the swear word mitigated in some way (either cheating it with frak and such or adding asterics). Either way if you want to use coarse language you would be able, it would simply be more effort and everyone would completely understand what you meant.
So what is the point of it all? Why do we need laws that aren't followed but should not be removed? What good does the asterisk in sh*t bring that makes the content much better than simply writing the whole word proper?
