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Re: Profanity again
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Date:
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Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:25:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote:
(snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said)
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I always figured it’d be funny to replace people’s swears automatically on
the server.
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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.
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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!
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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 participants would be asked to
think of the most profane word in their vocabulary and that to a clone brand
they feel fits it best, then, the second most profane word to another clone
brand, etc. (each brand only gets used once).
Adr.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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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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| (...) 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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