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Re: Profanity again
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Date: 
Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:36:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote:

(snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said)

   I always figured it’d be funny to replace people’s swears automatically on the server.

IIRC classic-castle.com has implemented just such a mechanism in their chat, everything profane that the filter substitutes for gets turned into “MegaBloks”. It’s actually rather amusing, just as you surmise it would be.

As much as I don’t care for the implied disparaging of my favorite brand, I have to admit that this is a pretty funny failsafe.

Dave!



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(...) It's good to read you're OK with it. When I saw this the other day I thought "Hey! That's a very good idea!" An idea came to me this morning- how about a poll? It would a rating type with a list of clone brands in alphabetical order and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote: (snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said) (...) IIRC classic-castle.com has implemented just such a mechanism in their chat, everything profane that the filter substitutes for gets turned into (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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