Request

Could you change the word filter to insert characters like **** instead of deleting words outright? Taking words completely out of sentences and not replacing them with anything is confusing me.

I always liked :skull: .

:skull::skull::skull::skull: YES. >=[

oh merde!

I liked the skulls too. Partially because it caused me to say things like 'what the skull is going on here?'

Skulls or charactesr or whatever, any kind of replacement is better than sentences like "I ing hate this ing ."

No Unne. you.

Seriously, ask Leeza.

As long as the filtered word is replaced with "unne". ^_~

Unne this, unne that, I don't give a unne, Unne, don't make me unneslap you...

...Actually, don't. It was a great idea at the time.

Shut the Unne up.

Ah, unne, such a magical word for the most mundane of tasks, corporeal love and burning hatred all in one perfect little marble of a doctor.

This is all Leeza's fault. :p

At least use non-breaking spaces so we know something was there. :(

The skulls were too pretty and I'm sure that a lot of people here swore on purpose just to see those skulls. They also thought that it was okay to say what they wanted to because we would see the skulls instead of what we all know that they actually say. And because it was already supposedly filtered out, I would get chastised for telling people to watch their language.

All I wanted was to get rid of the filter, period, so that I could tell people to watch their language and maybe ban a few people...I haven't done that in a long, long time *sigh*...but someone other than me has thought up this idea. :) I actually like it because, like someone else has said, now people just end up looking silly and like they don't know how to type when they try to swear. Yes, it does screw up the sentences somewhat, but, in my opinion this is the best solution other than not having any swear filter at all. Having **** won't make anyone try to find better words to use because they'll just keep claiming that it's filtered out so what's the big ing deal!

Of course people are starting to go around the swear filter already. I even played around with it myself in Staff for a bit and I can see where that could be fun for some people, but I think that we can come up with better words to use. There are also the ads now that we have to think about and I think that 99% of posts don't need these unnecessary words.

The thing is, the more you try to prevent people to do something, the more imagination they use to work around it. Let's take the word "****" (the s-word).

Some will try to write it plain:
" " and it looks silly

Some will use stars:
"s*it"
"sh*t" (the most common over the web, I think)
"s**t"
etc...
There's always :skull::skull::skull::skull: or any variations thereof.

Or smartasses (:E) will trick the filter:
"Shit", said the word filter. "I'm tricked".

So, to make it short, I agree with Unne.
xD

I can't even write "Calimshite". That's bad.