the profanity problem

[Perfection]

Is the a-word acceptable, I use it often.

It is usually preceded by the word "kicks".

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Is the a-word acceptable, ".

Not when referring to anatomy, it is ok when meaning a donkey or a fool.

 

[Moss]

Not when referring to anatomy, it is ok when meaning a donkey or a fool.

fool? I don't think I remember hearing that word as another word for fool?

 

[ainwood]

That's why you don't warn, you just hit the ever popular ban button. Saves time and warnings...and reduces stress on fingers.

Short-term: No. Banning actually requires more button pushing and logging etc than a warning.

However, one ban is probably easier in the long-term than numerous warnings.

Despite what people may think, banning people is not something that we enjoy, nor is it something that we take lightly. I hope people consider this and realise exactly how frustrated we have become with the profanity issue.

 

[WildFire]

Yes you can be perm banned from the chatroom!

I should keep track of how long, total, I've been banned in my signature. That'd be l337!!

Some people have been permbanned but they were removed but don't come back

 

[CurtSibling]

Nope, I said God damn it, and I was banned for a day.

I used to say that and bastard all the time (not at posters, usually like "that politician is a bastard") thinking it was fine, but now I don't know...

Your past swearing did offend this grizzled old heathen on occasion.

Not the actual swearing, but the aura of intent that went with it.

 

[CurtSibling]

Nope, wrong. Anything profane, vulgar, scatalogical, obscene, sexually oriented.

The day I post something scatalogical is the day I retire!

 

[bobgote]

WillJ: Just for the record, to a Christian, "God damn it" is probably one of the most profane expressions there is!

'cept that CG is a christian, and he didn't think twice about saying it.

and i woulda thought that getting banned probably isn't as bad as him getting sent to hell for eternity get thee to a confessional, CG!

I had to make a real effort the other day to use the word "bottom". It wasn't just the fact that I had virtually exhausted my entire vocabulary by the time I hit upon the socially acceptable. It also changed the tone of the post making me sound like a prissy housewife or a sinister deviant. Sort of like I was using the words "collateral damage" to describe the bombing of a hospital to soften the terrible reality. By using the word "bottom" to describe my "bottom" I felt that I was misrepresenting the true nature of my "bottom" to the O.T. community. The word "bottom" conjures up pictures of hobbits relaxing in the shire, smoking their pipes whereas I really needed to use a word that conveyed an impression of Mount. Doom and the smellier parts of Mordor.

but he does speak the truth

The day I post something scatalogical is the day I retire!

Curt, most of your posts are scatalogical in nature.

@Lefty: "Scatalogical" is a great word! I'm going to use it all the time now (then you'll have to put that on the censor list too).

 

[Dell19]

Not when referring to anatomy, it is ok when meaning a donkey or a fool.

Does it have a different meaning in the US or something? I find it strange that its okay to describe someone as a fool but not a part of our anatomy...

 

[h4ppy]

Does it have a different meaning in the US or something? I find it strange that its okay to describe someone as a fool but not a part of our anatomy...

Over here we have stricter morals and certain words are not generally acceptable.

 

[bobgote]

Does it have a different meaning in the US or something? I find it strange that its okay to describe someone as a fool but not a part of our anatomy...

and does this rule out the correct spelling of the word, leaving only the US equivalent?

anyway, using it as an insult will get you banned for insulting a poster rather than for profanity

Over here we have stricter morals and certain words are not generally acceptable.

so the problem here is americans?

because that would be unusual

maybe it's just difficult for me. Many of the words considered censor worthy here, are not only in common use, but also not considered swearing in australia. I don't use such language in normal conversation, but if i did i probably wouldn't notice.

 

[carlosMM]

Dell19: ass means doneky AND the anatonimal part. If used for a person who is a fool, it is the donkey meaning (same as in German, you do not call them an 'Arsch' but an 'Esel'). I do not kow why in our languages donkeys are considered stupid though

 

[Chieftess]

No, I don't think so...
You can just sign up as a different name.:

Ya know, ya can swear all ya want in Civ Multiplayer!

Actually, that's banwalking, and if you do it enough (like what happened to another member on the forums), you get akilled from the server. (a.k.a., permban -- unless you're a stubborn AOL user behind a proxy...)

 

[test_specimen]

I'm not asking for leniency because I want to use the f-word as often as ozzy does, it would just be nice to see moderators ignore any use of (less offensive) swearwords that's not flaming, because it's sad to see, at the end of an exceptional posting a mod action, because the poster used "4letterword" in some sentence.

It is a very good idea to punish people circumventing the autocensor - iirc there once was a poster that accused me of swearing, because I used "crap" (meaning: nonsense), and when I told him that he had done the same he answered that he had not sworn because he wrote it with an "@" instead of an "a".

(I hope this is not on the bad word list, my translation to German would be "Mist" which is even used in a popular children's tv-show.)

 

[LLXerxes]

TF,can you tell me the words on the list?
I mean, like
Fu- word
B- word
so on?

 

[Ankka]

TF,can you tell me the words on the list?
I mean, like
Fu- word
B- word
so on?

You could just test.

 

[Inter4]

I think a few lightning strike anti-swear bans might set a new course on the matter.

Courtesy costs nothing - Swearing is a sign of uncontrolled impulses.
I am saddened to see even some veteran posters setting a rotten example.

I for one, have never spoken in such terms on CFC.
(It's about the only thing I haven't been banned for!)

If Curt is able not to swear then everyone can do it!

 

[Dell19]

TF,can you tell me the words on the list?

What would be the point?

 

[LLXerxes]

What would be the point?

So I know which swears I can use!

 

[Moss]

So I know which swears I can use!

Some people just never learn...