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Stefu is offline Stefu
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In case Bush becomes the prez... Full PM-box? Change here!

...will Apolyton finally uncensor the name 'Dck'? I still hold that having to write **** Cheney always looks like you meant to say Fuck Cheney.

Builder is offline Builder

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heh...

**** cheney...

Christantine The Great is offline Christantine The Great
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Question  Old Post 16-11-2000 02:25
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Funny how candidate's names are censored but other words like "sex" or "$uck" arn't.

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i have notice that some times **** is not censored or is that only in peoples sigs or when they edit their posts?

Murgatroyd is offline Murgatroyd
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The autocensor doesn't do a thing to stop those who want to use words like "di<e>ck". It just makes life difficult for those who are not trying to swear, and who don't realize that the words they are typing in will be censored (i.e. those talking about **** (or is that Di<e>ck) Cheney).

Lews Therėn is offline Lews Therėn
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The autocensor is exremely easy to get around -- it works by simply doing a case-insensitive search through the post for words on the list of banned words. If a word appears nowhere in the post, the autocensor finds nothing to complain about. For example: Di<font></font>ck Cheney. If you look carefully, you will realize that the word Di<font></font>ck never appears in this post.

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<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Lews Therėn (edited November 15, 2000).]</font>

Narck is offline Narck
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Apr 1999
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Lews, rather than using the < font > < / font > method, you can just insert a < e >

Much faster.

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Funny how candidate's names are censored but other words like "sex" or "$uck" arn't.

This candidate's name just happens to be a word that is censored, not the other way around.

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May 1999
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You people have been naughty

There are ways to improve the autocensor to catch these things

Mark von Wagner is offline Mark von Wagner
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The autocensor is a very literal-minded critter. Humans can always come up with a new method of getting around the censor. For example,

Dėck
Đick
DĄck

F<font face="symbol">m</font>ck

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way the go MvW!

Murgatroyd is offline Murgatroyd
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edit: I just noticed that he included my suggestion, but here are a few more:

diįk
ƒuck
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Which once again begs the question: Why does ACS continue to use this autocensor? Is it so you can say you're 'concerned' about the issue? Seems to me someone acting in a rude and disrespectful way should be dealt with by the mods. It is one of the reasons you claim we need mods, no?


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Wezil:

Your implication that we are using the autocensor because we are "lazy" in acting as moderators is insulting and unfounded.

Like any administrator we have tools which help to make our position more manageable -- in other words, more efficient, and the autocensor allows us to do that. In turn, those benefits are passed along to our visitors.

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Sure, you could always use words such as "bleep" to replace the naughty ones

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