Quick_lude

Being a webboard admin on our club I know that this option is available. May I suggest that certain words, we all know which ones, be added to the filter.
Imo, you cannot be a world class site and have people posting **** **** **** in general forums..

Puppy1

Then all we really need is a "Tribal" filter.

TJRX8

Ditto ditto. There are a couple others as well, but I second or third the suggestion.

Quick_lude

Haha... Now don't get me wrong, swearing has it's time and place but for the most part it should be filtered out imo..

gettingan8

I have listed 4 people on my Ignore list and most of the profanity is gone..The "poopman" is the worst

akrx8

i agree,if someone wants to get there point across we all know what f--- or f!!! means and doesnt seem to offense to others.

SPDFRK

I admit to dropping the F bomb when speaking and not really notice I said it, but when you have to type it out it's not that hard to censor yourself. We should all be mature enough to control this problem if we know that other people are offended by it. I'd hope we wouldn't have to go as far as filtering posts and ignoring members because they just may have something good to say occasionally.

Quick_lude

Actually all the profanity filter does is this: insted of **** you see ****. this way you still see the post, just the filtered words are ****'d.

wakeech

**** censorship, man.

Racer X-8

Suggestion,

Before submitting reply, look back at what you've just written and think of how you could remove those expletives. It's really pretty easy since usually, they're unneccessary adjectives, just clogging up your post and making you appear crude and immature.

I really don't mind that much, but when I see a post with expletives all through it, even just one, that's how the writer comes across to me. Maybe cuz if you have to use expletives to make your point, you really are.

Try it.

wakeech

i must say i disagree Racer...
my post above, obviously, was simply a little quip at the suggestion of cuffing the hands of those posting on this forum, limiting them in their range of expression.

although "civil" society deems these "bad" words rude, which they most certainly are, they exist for a reason: sometimes we need the ability to be rude to express a point (specifically about how one is feeling).

now, being rude only for the sake of attention or just to "break the rules" (tribal, POOM, misc. banned trolls) is pornographic and exploitative in nature, but i certainly don't see anything wrong with rude words, in the same vein that i don't believe that nudity or sexuality are necessarily "bad" outside of a strictly pornographic nature...

Quick_lude

:D

Racer X-8

Cursing to make your point, or your sincerety about making your point understood is to me like a baby or little kid crying when mom or dad won't give in. The kid has plumb run out of ways to convince the parents to agree. The kid resorts to good old crying to see if THAT will do any good. (It doesn't - usually, does it?)

I don't believe in banning the free speach of this forum. No. Like I said, I really don't mind that much...

You, of all people, Wakeech, seem to have quite a large vocabulary to tap. You really feel a need to curse to have your point come across the way you want it to?

I'm by no means perfect at this, at least in speech, but I really don't see why it has to remain in written conversation. Using "rude" language is just that...rude. Maybe not to you or I, but to somebody, it really is.

Nudity or sexuality? Nothing wrong about that! It's just a question of who's doin' it as to whether I'm gonna look.

Hi Quick_lude...

wakeech

not normally, but it'd still be a nice option to say "you're a **** head" to someone who really deserved it, no matter how stupid an insult that is

...it's simply the principle of the thing.

zoom44

where is tom anyway?

Quick_lude

I guess the idea is that we should be able to argue without having to result to such insults. Also imo any public webboard unless it has a "for 18 yr or older" disclaimer should be "clean" enough for persons of any age.

Puppy1

We should keep the forum clean buy not allowing the kids (e.i.: PooMan, Tribal and most resently Wakeech ) from posting. The rest of the over 18 crowd has matured enough.

Isn't that strange, the adults need to be protected from the trash talking childern?

zoom44

now on your first point ther i sort of disagree. i agree with what you said before about just not typing the profanity even if you would say it out loud. and while some people may use it like a baby crying there have been times when i really wanted to use some profanity on here not to cry like a baby but to just express my honest to god level of frustration which could only be expressed in a certain way for people to understand it. (for those of you who can find it read my "don't mind the man banging his head against the wall" thread.) now most of the time i have censored myself but in answering your question to wakeech i will say yes sometimes it is a neccessity. but then i am a former Marine and it comes from noticing that people generally listen more when there is a "****" thrown in here and there.

now i wish that the f@#*ing dealer would f@#*ing call me back just this one f@#*ing time and answer my f@#*ing question about financing instead of me have to f@#*ing chase him around on the f@#*ing phone all the f@#*ing time. they never call the f@#k back i always have to make the f@#*ing phone calls. It pi$$e$ me the F@#K off!

once in awhile it does feel good to cut loose like that:D

p.s. i and i am sure many others here have quite a large vocabulary on tap. When i decide to use "profanity" i am exercising my vocabulary by using words that i don't use every day because they seem more appropriate and express my point clearly. don't be too hasty in thinking that someone who uses more vulgarity than you is somehow handicapped with a lesser vocabulary, education or intelligence.

Quick_lude

Just do what the S2000 board does.. replace **** with the picture of spam. :D

Racer X-8

now i wish that the dealer would call me back just this one time and answer my question about financing instead of me have to chase him around on the phone all the time. they never call back i always have to make the phone calls. It MAKES me MAD!


Well yeah. lol... How to win friends & influence enemies comes to mind here. If your dealer is to be considered your "enemy", and he got on this site & read your venting, which version would you think he would take in a more positive note and maybe even take some time and try to fix your problem with him? Yours, or my "abreviated" version? (Probably neither, huh? Argh!)

Deap breaths.....ommmmmm......ommmmmm............

Perhaps we might could resort to nudity & sexuality when we get to this point.:D

zoom44

yes but yours doesn't express exactly how upset i am




unfortunately, correct.

Agreed!:D