Profanity Filters: a Pole

[Peacefrog]

Over the years the profanity filters have ranged from meh to funny to cringy to outright terrible. We have a coach whose last name is being used as a replacement for certain words. Seems odd.

The rules say no profanity. That’s probably impossible. However, what would be your choice if you ruled the roost?

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

Can we impeach some of these mods on a power trip too?

 

[Peacefrog]

Can we impeach some of these mods on a power trip too?

 

[This Ain't Chopped Liver]

Maybe add to the poll—

5. No filters but profanity is prohibited and posters may be suspended at moderators discretion.

Then there will be some profanity but it should diminish. If you curse, then you know you might be sent to the quiet room.

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

I think every word should be filtered and replaced with the next word in the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.

 

[TopFrog]

Interesting that you were able to write pole without being filtered.

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

I would provide an example of my suggestion, but I don’t have a hard copy of a dictionary handy and off the top of my head don’t know what words come after “Peace,” “is,” “a,”scheissing,”or “[ Finebaum ]-eating [ the old ricardo ] master.”

 

[TopFrog]

I think we should change Mac Engle's filter from Big Steaming Pile to Muck Angle.

 

[lowfrog]

Interesting that you were able to write pole without being filtered.

Built my own filter on my computer. It filtered Pole to Big Pile.

 

[FrogAbroad]

The "cute" little replacements for unhousebroken words have, IMHO, seen and outlived their day. I do prefer to avoid that kind of language so I'd prefer the "****" replacement ploy, myself.

But to be fair, the folks on my Ignore list aren't there for cussin', but for consistently being ******** with their posts.

 

[06DallasFrog]

So many pole jokes free for the taking...

 

[froginmn]

Honestly don't mind the replacement words. Could stand updating but I think they accomplish two things:

1) let me know/infer what the person is saying

2) keep that language off of the site so that people who don't want to see it don't have to

If I were a parent of an athlete and came to this site to see a bunch of profanity I'd likely be turned off. Don't need the actual words mixed in. I hear too many people sound idiotic in real life overusing profanity. I often think, do you know how dumb you sound?

 

[CryptoMiner]

so Peacefrog is Steel?

 

[Spike]

so Peacefrog is Steel?

No, but they would get along.

 

[Spike]

Interesting that you were able to write pole without being filtered.

Huh huh, you said pole!

 

[geezer]

How about just use [deleted] ?

 

[Purp]

I'm fine with filters when they're funny. They're a funny way to recognize certain pompous talking heads as especially loathsome. Finebaum deserves to be a filter, for example. I like the creativity and back-handed gesture at the butt of the joke.

But many of the filters haven't been funny and a lot of the filters have been plain weird. For example, I always thought replacing ship with boat b/c ship was too close to the intended word was awfully juvenile. I still use boat in every day language now to make fun of how dumb I thought that was.

I don't use cuss words here so the only times I get filtered are for innocuous words that have to be stretched into an innuendo to be considered inappropriate. That or terd (properly spelled, of course). Terd gets filtered here and I use the word at church to talk about my sons without getting looked at weird. Meanwhile, it makes it look like I said the version of that word starting with SH without a mature reason for doing so. If you can't read the word terd without being triggered you should just stay off the internets altogether.

 

[Eight]

So many pole jokes free for the taking...

if they are on a pole, they aren't free for the taking.....

 

[Purp]

No, but they would get along.

So which one uses the pronoun they? Peace or steel?

 

[Gringo1873]

I think profanity would enhance the community. We would all be laughing a lot more.