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Swear words on forum posts 20-Jun-2006 At 5:17:31 PM manacubus

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I reluctantly turned on the profanity filter on qurank a while back after a few posts got well out of hand. For example, it turns the f-word into f^&k or something similar. I'm not really sure how much good this does anyway, although I have seen that posters tend to self-mod their own swearing to ensure it passes the filter in recognisable form. That being said, I don't think profanity should be manually removed by moderators via post editing.

Edit: I also don't think a vote is a particularly useful tool in this case, because few people would vote to have their posts tampered with. I am sure we'll see a vast free speech landslide. However, profanity filtering should be a decision for the site administrator, with consideration given to the purpose and main audience of Chockstone.