i sent a pm to a friend on my list and for some reason 2 words i typed showed up as edited when i saw the mssg that was sent on the screen that refreshes after you send the mssg. i can understand it being censored on forums and pm's to people who aren't in friends but in pm's to friends,,,,, come on that is a little to much censoring. let me know who's idea or sugg that was so i can yell at them in a pm full of dashes ------------------ that is what a cuss word looks like i used 2 words that weren't offensive but they got censored in my pm. come on now

SOmething similar happened on another site I was where "grape" got censored out to look like "g****".

I can understand some words, but if a "bad" word is part of a full word wherein the entire meaning of the larger word is completely different than the "bad" series of letters, we need to change that. :)

Granted, I haven't (yet) cussed on these fora, so I'm not sure what it looks like.

it wasn't on the forum it was in a private message and i simply stated that something was s'ty and it censored it.

it is done automatically by the site. we can not choose to censor only public posts. i am sorry you can not swear on our site but we are trying to keep it pg so that everyone can read it.

-kris

it was in a pm not on the forums and it never used to do that.

Lanna,

While I do understand your frustration there is a legitimate reason for the word censor, even on PMs sent to friends. The purpose is to block out the language some some people may find offensive. In this case, it may have been your friend. While they may not have found the language to be offensive, it is in place to protect people who do, not necessarily to censor you. You made a point that it was someone on your friends list, however, this isn't Facebook, and there isn't a confirmation process by the person you placed on your friends list, which could allow you to add someone to your Friend's list, and then flame them if the Word Censoring was removed (not saying you would do that).

There is a setting in the User Control Panel that allows individual users to "Enable word censoring", which is set to "Yes" by default. Switching this setting to "No" at the current time doesn't seem to change anything, which makes me think there is either a bug, or the setting doesn't do what I think it should.

I'm going to continue researching this setting and see if I can't figure out either what it really does, or why it doesn't work.

HTH,

David

Ok...I found the setting that allows users to enable or disable the Word Censors...

If you want to turn the Word Censors off so that you can see the curse words...and not the dashes, go to the User Control Panel, Board Preferences, Edit display options, and change the setting for "Enable word censoring:" from Yes to No.

HTH,

David

This does not work. I set it that way when you first started filtering the "naughty" words. I still see the dashes and resetting it does not help.

Gern-

I'm not sure what to tell you. I've tested it out and it seems to be working for me. The two posts that I have above indicate two different things. The first post indicated that the setting existed, but it didn't seem to be working, and that I would look into it. The second post indicated that I found the setting on the administrative controls that recognizes that setting. I had just got it working moments prior to posting my second post.

Your post stating that it doesn't work was only 28 seconds after I posted that I had adjusted the settings. I'm not trying to say your not fast, but 28 seconds seems pretty quick to navigate into the UCP, flip the setting to YES, Save, Flip the setting to NO, save, find a post or pm that has words that were filtered as to verify if it worked, and then return to this thread and post that it didn't work. Are you sure it's not working?

David

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it works

Yep. Worked for me too!

lol that is funny. thanks i don't use them on the board just in pms and it's working now. thanks

I already had it set that way so you can put your stopwatch down. Some of us are already familiar with how the 3.0 format works.

You betcha!

It works now. However, it did not the entire time I was logged in last night. This indicates to me that one had to log off and then log back on again in order for it to actually reset, which you mentioned absolutely zilch about doing, so get off my ---, David.

wow!!!!

Yep. What she said!

Yay, the naughty words are back!

Oh well, lets hope other things will improve too.

Ok, I just submited a post that contained the name of the current vice president.


---- Cheney.

Do you see that. ----

I think thats a bit ridiculous. .

What makes it even funnier.


vagina.

Looks like I can type that.

That IS funny. I'm not surprised, but it's funny!!

I see PENIS is acceptable as well.

hmm...

Johnson
Wang
Willie
Tally Wacker
Pecker
Dong
Schlong
Cock
Prick

Yep, they all work, but yet I cant type ---- Cheney.

Well, that settles it then. This is definitely an anti-republican run board.

The whole thing is silly because if I wanted to call someone a D I C K I can still do it.

D I C K.
D I C K.
D I C K.


D i c k Cheney....doesnt that look silly?


So admin, is this really necessary?

Never visited this thread before, but since one of my friends is here saying the nasty word ---- Cheney, I have to chip in

ok....lets try prick cheney

Ok, lets try....

Johnson Cheney
Wang Cheney
Willie Cheney
Tally Wacker Cheney
Pecker Cheney
The sheriff's a *Dong* Cheney
Schlong Cheney
Cock Cheney
---- Cheney................

thanks, Psyber....after this week, I really needed a laugh. Lets try that great comic detective, ---- Tracy.....just previewed....guess he is a nasty person too. How about the old books I learned to read with....---- and Jane with their dog Spot. I guess the name should be Richard

What if we want to discuss the classic Moby ----.

Nope cant do that either.

Hmmm wonder if I can can post the lyrics to a Monty Python song....

''Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis / Isn''t it frightfully good to have a dong/ It''s swell to have a stiffy / It''s divine to own a dickey / From the tiniest little tadger to the world''s biggest prick / So, three cheers for your Willy or John-Thomas / Hooray for your one-eyed-trouser-snake / Your piece of pork , your wife''s best-friend , your passing or your cock / You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can slip it in your sock / But don''t take-it out in public or they''ll stick you in the dock and you won''t come back .''





So shall we make a list of those things we cannot now type because of this silly little censorship?

Ill add ---- Cheney and Moby ---- to the ones you mentioned.

---- Cheney
Moby ----
---- Tracy
---- and Jane with their dog spot.
---- Van Dyke

We can add Andy ----.....thats not much of a loss but still.



Or how about ---- Clarks interview of ---- and Dee Dee.

Sigh....maybe it all started because of what ---- and Jane wanted to, or did with Spot.

This thread is incredibly phallic-centric. How sexist.

Ah but you were able to type phallic-centric and not -----centric.

I am able to type and see all the cuss words, I have my word censor disabled. One of the Admin posted a how to on it a while back.

Me too. I kept reading thru this thinking "What the heck are they talking about? I can see ---- Cheney's name..."
But, you're right Gern, it's because I have my word censor disabled as well.