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[ConMan]

As an April Fools' joke, a board that I used to frequent set up word filters for totally innocuous, common words and rendered everyone unintelligible for a day.

The xkcd forums have a "Mod Mental Health Month" where the mods are given free access to wordfilters and other such fun things. If there's a really good filter, it may not even be rolled back when the month is over.

[Ozle]

I am totally a fan of opt-in (or even opt-out) language filters. Alternatively, language filters that change words to other words, like "fuck" to "hug" or "lovingly caress". Or "Shaq-Fu".

Change "nigger" to "member of everyone's favorite ethnicity."

I didn't realise it meant Aussies!

[Kirian]

I am totally a fan of opt-in (or even opt-out) language filters. Alternatively, language filters that change words to other words, like "fuck" to "hug" or "lovingly caress". Or "Shaq-Fu".

Change "nigger" to "member of everyone's favorite ethnicity."

Fark changes "nigger" and some other variants to "attractive and successful African-American."

The main problem with this type of censorship, though, is that it's disruptive to actual conversation if applied indiscriminately like it is here.  I mean, Niger is an actual country, as has been pointed out, and some German words end in "niger."  Meanwhile, I'm betting that "n1gg3r" isn't censored, despite the fact that someone typing that is most certainly not making a typo.

If you censor "rape" indiscriminately, you end up with "g^#$%fruit", "d^&%^ry", "the#$*^utic", "skysc$&#%r", and "t&*%$zoid."

[Drab Emordnilap]

"d^&%^ry"

Nobody uses that word anyways.

dconsensually penetratery

[SirPeebles]

So, speaking of ****, do any of you ever mistakenly transpose the last two letters of goko when typing the url?  I don't know that I want to visit that website.

[Drab Emordnilap]

So, speaking of ****, do any of you ever mistakenly transpose the last two letters of goko when typing the url?  I don't know that I want to visit that website.

Also guko dot com, if I remember correctly, is very NSFW.

I checked for you; gook.com is being domain-squatted.

[Awaclus]

Also guko dot com, if I remember correctly, is very NSFW.

I just see some Korean characters and a picture of someone writing something on a "Small Business" printout.

No, really.

[Kirian]

Also guko dot com, if I remember correctly, is very NSFW.

I just see some Korean characters and a picture of someone writing something on a "Small Business" printout.

No, really.

I think it may have been goku.com that was the NSFW one.  A number of people still type the name that way for some reason.

[Axxle]

Also guko dot com, if I remember correctly, is very NSFW.

I just see some Korean characters and a picture of someone writing something on a "Small Business" printout.

No, really.

I think it may have been goku.com that was the NSFW one.  A number of people still type the name that way for some reason.

I wonder how many people still do that? Over 9000?

[werothegreat]

I am totally a fan of opt-in (or even opt-out) language filters. Alternatively, language filters that change words to other words, like "fuck" to "hug" or "lovingly caress". Or "Shaq-Fu".

Change "nigger" to "member of everyone's favorite ethnicity."

Fark changes "nigger" and some other variants to "attractive and successful African-American."

The main problem with this type of censorship, though, is that it's disruptive to actual conversation if applied indiscriminately like it is here.  I mean, Niger is an actual country, as has been pointed out, and some German words end in "niger."  Meanwhile, I'm betting that "n1gg3r" isn't censored, despite the fact that someone typing that is most certainly not making a typo.

If you censor "rape" indiscriminately, you end up with "g^#$%fruit", "d^&%^ry", "the#$*^utic", "skysc$&#%r", and "t&*%$zoid."

If you censor "fuck" indiscriminately, you end up with...  hmm...

[Kirian]

Also guko dot com, if I remember correctly, is very NSFW.

I just see some Korean characters and a picture of someone writing something on a "Small Business" printout.

No, really.

I think it may have been goku.com that was the NSFW one.  A number of people still type the name that way for some reason.

I wonder how many people still do that? Over 9000?

Hey, 0 is also a number.

[Watno]

but is it natural?

[Tables]

We've been over this, 0 is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS a natural number (except in the common cases where it isn't)

[Kirian]

We've been over this, 0 is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS a natural number (except in the common cases where it isn't)

Edge case thread!

[Ozle]

Can we get this back on censorship...i'll start

BOOBIES

[Grujah]

Can we get this back on censorship...i'll start

BOOBIES

You mean breasts, surely:

[Donald X.]

Has everyone seen the video for Toe Jam? Good times.

[werothegreat]

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM