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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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| (...) 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! (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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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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| (...) The odd part, however, is that it makes it difficult to talk about various clone brands. For instance: "I MegaBloks hate stupid Megabloks" but the best part is, not just curse words are filtered out - certain other terms/words that offend yer (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) In practice I wouldn't have a problem with it, because I generally don't resort to profanity and wouldn't therefore have to worry about any word-substitution in my posts. But one dilemma is that it would imply that LUGNET as an entity is (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) That and without a way to edit posts, typos can make it look like you swore. I found a few accidental typos while searching for swears the other day. Things like someone who misspelled "cut" by inserting an extra letter. Also you've got to (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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