View Poll Results: Swear Filter Replacement?!?!?!?!?!?

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Thread: Profanity Rainbow

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    Default Profanity Rainbow

    I forgot swear filters are enforced, not encourage here. Oh, artificial daddies, how funny you are. Swear filters, as a rule, suck, but I can accept them. What bothers me more is that we still use "smurf" as the replacement. I could have sworn people wanted profanity rainbow images. Or skulls. Or "trout". Weigh in, people; this is your community.

    Edit: Poll input sucks; 100 characters is not enough to put in four skulls, Umaro's, or rainbows.

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    Smurf is just... the best. Smurfing hell!


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    Ahahahaha I like "smurf" a lot myself but if it ever gets replaced the rainbow has my vote.

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    Racism against blue people should be prohibited



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    It'd require a lot of effort, but I'd be in favour of the kind of swear filter than parents have to use around their kids to express dismay but without turning the air blue. For years in my family 'sugar butties' became a sort of cleaned up version of... well, something less pleasant on a sandwich.

    Has the added bonus of making the person look ridiculous, rather than a wannabe pirate ( ) or someone on a gay pride march (smurfbow.gif). Or an FFVI fan ( ) which, let's face it, will just make the person look more cool than they were before.

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    Smurf will never be replaced and I will personally see to it that trout is not, either.

    Come up with a new word you want to be filtered, nerds. That or stop reviving this topic.

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    The OP seems like a bit of a smurfing pri-madonna.

    Hoooo.

    edit: Jokes aside I doubt it'll be changed now. I think people are used to seeing smurf and trout everywhere.
    Last edited by Aulayna; 07-25-2013 at 11:54 PM.


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    No matter what you do, don't use any smurfing images. First, it disrupts the spacing between lines, and second, it looks extremely terrible if you turn off smileys in your posts. You get like a 50 character long string of text instead of the images.
    everything is wrapped in gray
    i'm focusing on your image
    can you hear me in the void?

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    I take the Jon Stewart approach. The swear filter is fine, but I'm not going to censor myself, eoff can do that smurfin trout for me. I think the use of icons/pictures is more distracting and attention-getting than anything else.

    Besides, if you change the swear filter, it will make less sense when I start laughing at books at work:

    600full-trout-fishing-in-america-cover.jpg

    smurf-book.jpg

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    I hate that this place uses trout for Yoshitaka amano

    who added the filter to change Yo-trout-aka back to Yoshitaka

    you ruined my joke

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    i don't like being censored, but i don't hate it so much to put effort into protesting it. i will never censor myself by talking about fish and blue people though. smurf that trout

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    The Profranity Rainbow would be amusing for a short time, but after the novelty wore off the constant use of images would get annoying. Plus, "smurf" is practically an EoFF tradition at this point.

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    I literally use "smurf" in #eoff where the filter doesn't exist anyway. It's like second nature now, and I'm not even tenured.

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    smurf is magnificent. I love how it functions perfectly well as a verb.

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    Profanity rainbow would certainly brighten the place up a bit.

    They see me rolling. They hating, patrolling.
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