BlueLlama
10/11/17 TWAIN CRUSH DAY
@GrandOldTeam does false swearing (eg fook) affect the filters too?
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toffeesnuggs
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Flippin' grass!
The Hairy Splinter
Player Valuation: £500k
You mean "fewer", rather than "less", my good man. I say, must we tolerate slipshod English as well as all these deplorable expletives?
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Not sure mate.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
You forgot the sarcasm font, mate.
It's not allowed, I believe, as it's classed as circumventing the swear filter.
Much like fcuk. And possibly like the BSG-inspired frak. Foreign swear-words may also be classed as circumventing. As would manually-starring them out, like f***ing hell.
As a fan of BSG, I'd like to use frak, and it might just be allowed as it's more like Mikey's fudge than fook or fek or fuk. But I think away from the search-engine argument the point is that resorting to even disguised-swearing cheapens debate, and GOT has a reputation for deep mature debate so this is another reason why there's a clampdown on swearing, as obviously this reputation is a decent one to have.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
It's certainly accurate, but is it against the rules ? Tough one.
No-one really knows mate. For example, Adsense has a rule which "prohibits excessive profanity", but there's no definitive list of words, or "false" words provided by them, primarily because if there was a definitive list, people would just circumvent it. There are various lists on t'internet put together by people but there's no guarantee they're accurate.
It's not just about searches and ads though. I swear like a trooper in most circumstances but, never swore in front of the kids when they were young, wouldn't have sworn in front of my folks when they were alive and wouldn't swear in front of MsWB's old lady. Is it appropriate to swear on GOT ? Hard to say, we don't really know who's reading and if any Blues are put off by any swearing then that'd be a shame but equally it's a footie forum so you'd expect to hear the same sort of language you'd hear at a game.
FFS is fine though, Danny uses it all the time.
The Esk
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Big Fat Sam
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What damage does writing something like 'fack' or 'fook' do to the site? I'd find it incredibly hard to believe the site could suffer from somebody "circumventing" the swear filter in that way.
I could understand it if somebody tried to use an accented ú, for example.
We know the rules, but could somebody please confirm whether writing something like the above would damage the site, or would warning be handed out just for the sake of it?
I could understand it if somebody tried to use an accented ú, for example.
We know the rules, but could somebody please confirm whether writing something like the above would damage the site, or would warning be handed out just for the sake of it?
Wow, there is a lot of circumventing in that post. You have just cost GOT over 3 pence worth of advertising income.
Just to let you know, I've reported this post for swearing.
Reports are dealt with anonymously. Can't be worse than constant streams of foul language, which often descend into arguments that are not pleasant reading.
Stop swearing. End of.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
That being the case Sir, you should consider your punctuation.
Isn't there a comma before "Sir"? So it's:
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