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Title: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: LastFootnote on December 31, 2012, 03:13:37 pm
So, werothegreat and I were playing some Rebuild/Saboteur games just now, and I noticed that by censoring very mild 'swear' words, Goko makes me sound like a real foul-mouthed motherf****r.

During the game, it censored me when I cursed my mistakes by saying, "Crap!" That surprised me a bit, but it's understandable. But after our last game, by way of parting I said, "Well, I gotta ******. Hopefully we can continue this later." 10 points if you can guess which fairly innocuous word was censored. Wero, don't give away the answer!  :D
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Mecherath on December 31, 2012, 03:17:00 pm
Is it bounce?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on December 31, 2012, 03:18:50 pm
I wanted to ask someone else "age/sex/location", and it censored "sex."  It doesn't, however, censor "coitus."
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: LastFootnote on December 31, 2012, 03:19:08 pm
Is it bounce?

No, but you're close.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: dondon151 on December 31, 2012, 03:20:06 pm
"Well, I gotta crap. Hopefully we can continue this later."

Doesn't sound that bad to me.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Beyond Awesome on December 31, 2012, 03:22:00 pm
I love their censor. I am always surprised by the words it blocks, and then I'm confused and it makes me look like I am saying worse things than I am. lol
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: LastFootnote on December 31, 2012, 03:30:20 pm
"Well, I gotta crap. Hopefully we can continue this later."

Doesn't sound that bad to me.

Ha, nice. It was a six-letter word, though.

At first I thought it was censored because of its connection to bodily processes, but after consulting Urban Dictionary, I discovered it can also be used as a term for a certain ethnic demographic. I feel a bit like Randal in Clerks II, although I'm guessing my usage of the term is still perfectly acceptable in mixed company.

EDIT: Ah, I might as well give it away before people start guessing off-color things. The censored word was 'boogie'.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Beyond Awesome on December 31, 2012, 03:56:25 pm
lol
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on December 31, 2012, 05:23:17 pm
"Well, I gotta crap. Hopefully we can continue this later."

Doesn't sound that bad to me.

Ha, nice. It was a six-letter word, though.

At first I thought it was censored because of its connection to bodily processes, but after consulting Urban Dictionary, I discovered it can also be used as a term for a certain ethnic demographic. I feel a bit like Randal in Clerks II, although I'm guessing my usage of the term is still perfectly acceptable in mixed company.

EDIT: Ah, I might as well give it away before people start guessing off-color things. The censored word was 'boogie'.

I'm pretty certain multiple meanings of that word are acceptable in mixed company.  For instance:

http://www.boogiewipes.com/

Warning: Kids blowing their noses...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: pinkymadigan on December 31, 2012, 08:19:23 pm
No wonder black people look at me funny when I call my dog...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kuildeous on January 02, 2013, 09:14:13 am
If given the option on a site, I always turn off censorship. Some of those things are silly.

I was on one site where I submitted short stories about a sci-fi RPG session. I got annoyed when it would block "cockpit."

I had never heard of a site blocking "boogie" though. That's pretty funny.

I guess they don't like listening to doowop either.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kuildeous on January 02, 2013, 09:16:29 am
Of course, one of the biggest problems with such censorship is that there are so many dialects that perfectly innocuous words in one country may be verboten in another country. So, the censorship brush has to paint some pretty broad strokes to get them all.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Grujah on January 02, 2013, 09:19:12 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 02, 2013, 09:29:36 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

Yeah, the Blizzard forums had that problem with the word "Drape" for quite a while, which was amusing given how many pieces of equipment were the "Drape of Foo."
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: theory on January 02, 2013, 09:44:36 am
A clbuttic mistake.  Also known as the Scunthorpe problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).  My favorite are news articles about buttbuttination.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 02, 2013, 09:49:35 am
A clbuttic mistake.  Also known as the Scunthorpe problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).  My favorite are news articles about buttbuttination.

To be fair, have you ever seen Scunthorpe? It really should be blocked
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 02, 2013, 10:15:37 am
A clbuttic mistake.  Also known as the Scunthorpe problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).  My favorite are news articles about buttbuttination.

You said "butt."
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: DStu on January 02, 2013, 10:23:42 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

Yeah, the Blizzard forums had that problem with the word "Drape" for quite a while, which was amusing given how many pieces of equipment were the "Drape of Foo."
I can't recall the details, but there also was some German translation of a class/ability that happend to have a dick or nigger or something in it.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 02, 2013, 10:24:05 am
So, werothegreat and I were playing some Rebuild/Saboteur games just now, and I noticed that by censoring very mild 'swear' words, Goko makes me sound like a real foul-mouthed motherf****r.

During the game, it censored me when I cursed my mistakes by saying, "Crap!" That surprised me a bit, but it's understandable. But after our last game, by way of parting I said, "Well, I gotta ******. Hopefully we can continue this later." 10 points if you can guess which fairly innocuous word was censored. Wero, don't give away the answer!  :D

Is the missing word VAMOOSE?
It should be
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on January 02, 2013, 10:36:43 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

That must have had you all taking about the City of Bras.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Grujah on January 02, 2013, 10:36:47 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

Yeah, the Blizzard forums had that problem with the word "Drape" for quite a while, which was amusing given how many pieces of equipment were the "Drape of Foo."
I can't recall the details, but there also was some German translation of a class/ability that happend to have a dick or nigger or something in it.

Well, dick means "fat" in German, so..
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Grujah on January 02, 2013, 10:37:31 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

That must have had you all taking about the City of Bras.

They've also, later, made a Joke Card:
(http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=74327&type=card)

(It's not legal or anything, it's from a joke set).
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: DStu on January 02, 2013, 10:42:32 am
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

Yeah, the Blizzard forums had that problem with the word "Drape" for quite a while, which was amusing given how many pieces of equipment were the "Drape of Foo."
I can't recall the details, but there also was some German translation of a class/ability that happend to have a dick or nigger or something in it.

Well, dick means "fat" in German, so..
It was a bit more hidden inside the word
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Stealth Tomato on January 02, 2013, 10:55:23 am
A clbuttic mistake.  Also known as the Scunthorpe problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).  My favorite are news articles about buttbuttination.

The best is still the multitude of news articles about Olympic runner Tyson Homosexual (http://revealingerrors.com/tyson_homosexual).
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 02, 2013, 04:35:02 pm
Heh, the most funny censor was on MtG Gatherer site. It was very strict, and would censor even if a swear word is in another word. But the fun part was that there were actual MtG card names, that were censored, like "City of Brass" :D

That must have had you all taking about the City of Bras.

They've also, later, made a Joke Card:
(http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=74327&type=card)

(It's not legal or anything, it's from a joke set).

"Comes into play tapped."  Brilliant.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on January 03, 2013, 10:47:33 am
Years ago, I remember playing a game online that, for some reason, filtered the word mountain as explicit text.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: pinkymadigan on January 03, 2013, 11:47:36 am
Years ago, I remember playing a game online that, for some reason, filtered the word mountain as explicit text.

Mountain Dew me.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Mecherath on January 03, 2013, 01:25:44 pm
The game I'm playing now, Guild Wars 2, filters out Sega.  Not sure if it's a Korean swear word or if they're just anxious about competition in the game industry.  Nintendo is fine.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: GendoIkari on January 03, 2013, 05:04:33 pm
My favorite censorship of all time... For those of you Big Lebowski fans (I know at least Davio is!), you should all know the line "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!"

When I saw the movie on Comedy Central?

"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!"
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 03, 2013, 09:21:01 pm
My favorite censorship of all time... For those of you Big Lebowski fans (I know at least Davio is!), you should all know the line "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!"

When I saw the movie on Comedy Central?

"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!"

I think that's a lot of people's favorite censorship of all time.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: ycz6 on January 03, 2013, 09:24:30 pm
"I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" -Samuel Jackson

This was the actual TV version of the line.

Edit: Proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Beyond Awesome on January 03, 2013, 09:36:33 pm
"I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" -Samuel Jackson

This was the actual TV version of the line.

Dear god.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: SwitchedFromStarcraft on January 03, 2013, 10:27:33 pm
"I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" -Samuel Jackson

This was the actual TV version of the line.

Dear god.
I'm surprised Samuel L didn't grab Tarantino, go to the studio, and just f**k every foley editor's s**t up over that one.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on January 03, 2013, 10:31:55 pm
"I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" -Samuel Jackson

This was the actual TV version of the line.

Dear god.
I'm surprised Samuel L didn't grab Tarantino, go to the studio, and just f**k every foley editor's s**t up over that one.

I'd love to see how they deal with Blazing Saddles on network television.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 03, 2013, 10:44:32 pm
"I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" -Samuel Jackson

This was the actual TV version of the line.

Dear god.
I'm surprised Samuel L didn't grab Tarantino, go to the studio, and just f**k every foley editor's s**t up over that one.

I'd love to see how they deal with Blazing Saddles on network television.

Well-timed chimes on a large bell?  Seems obvious.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on January 03, 2013, 11:07:32 pm
"I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" -Samuel Jackson

This was the actual TV version of the line.

Dear god.
I'm surprised Samuel L didn't grab Tarantino, go to the studio, and just f**k every foley editor's s**t up over that one.

I'd love to see how they deal with Blazing Saddles on network television.

Well-timed chimes on a large bell?  Seems obvious.

Or they could just say Naggers.  You know.  People who annoy you.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Jack Rudd on January 04, 2013, 02:24:50 pm
A clbuttic mistake.  Also known as the Scunthorpe problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).  My favorite are news articles about buttbuttination.

To be fair, have you ever seen Scunthorpe? It really should be blocked
Heh. (I was born there, you know.)
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Tables on January 19, 2013, 01:58:08 pm
New one I found:

"Crap" is censored. Which kinda makes sense. Until you realise it's used quite happily as a swear word (as in "Oh crap, he's coming for you" is IIRC the exact wording) in one of the Adventure stories (DA Act 3 game 4).

Just... what?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 20, 2013, 10:44:13 pm
New Rule: Words that aren't censored on television should not be censored in internet games.  Neither harassment nor cursing is a subset of the other.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 21, 2013, 04:25:07 am
New Rule: Words that aren't censored on television should not be censored in internet games.  Neither harassment nor cursing is a subset of the other.

Tricky.
Words banned in one country are allowed in another.
Completely different rules for each country could be tricky.

And in England we have a watershed time where more violence and bad words are allowed.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: loppo on January 21, 2013, 05:50:43 am
i played a game against Qvist recently, and chatted in german. there we notice that the word "jap" was censored. Yep, Yap, jep, jap,..... are terms to say "yes" in a more laid back fashion in german. So we were quite surprise to have this censored.

Is it possible that "jap" is considered explicit language in english. Maybe some sort of snidly denomination for Japanese. i really cant think of anything else
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: DStu on January 21, 2013, 05:59:53 am
i played a game against Qvist recently, and chatted in german. there we notice that the word "jap" was censored. Yep, Yap, jep, jap,..... are terms to say "yes" in a more laid back fashion in german. So we were quite surprise to have this censored.

Is it possible that "jap" is considered explicit language in english. Maybe some sort of snidly denomination for Japanese. i really cant think of anything else

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jap maybe?

But I agree that it will be incredible difficult to get some curse filter that also filters slang and works in multiple languages without knowing which language it is filtering at the moment.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: loppo on January 21, 2013, 07:27:06 am
thanks to urbandictionary.com i learned A LOT today. thanks for pointing me to that site. Not sure i can use much of my new vocabulary in goko chats, though.

Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 21, 2013, 07:56:16 am
Might want to slap a 'Not safe for work' tag on Urban dictionary, heh
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on January 21, 2013, 08:52:50 am
thanks to urbandictionary.com i learned A LOT today. thanks for pointing me to that site. Not sure i can use much of my new vocabulary in goko chats, though.

Please note that some of the more... "obscure" terms on urban dictionary are completely invented, and not actually used by anyone other than the author..
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 21, 2013, 08:55:21 am
You can usually tell by the Upvotes on that matter, unless its a really funny one.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on January 21, 2013, 09:20:14 am
New Rule: Words that aren't censored on television should not be censored in internet games.  Neither harassment nor cursing is a subset of the other.

Tricky.
Words banned in one country are allowed in another.
Completely different rules for each country could be tricky.

And in England we have a watershed time where more violence and bad words are allowed.


I intended my rule to be as permissive as possible.  Word not banned on TV in the UK?  Don't censor it on the Internet.  Not banned in Norway, or Paraguay, or Azerbaijan?  Don't censor it on the Internet.

(Yes, this means cursing probably wouldn't be censored at all.  That's fine by me.)
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on January 21, 2013, 10:53:39 am
But nothing's banned in Sealand!  :o
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Donald X. on January 21, 2013, 11:09:27 am
i played a game against Qvist recently, and chatted in german. there we notice that the word "jap" was censored. Yep, Yap, jep, jap,..... are terms to say "yes" in a more laid back fashion in german. So we were quite surprise to have this censored.

Is it possible that "jap" is considered explicit language in english. Maybe some sort of snidly denomination for Japanese. i really cant think of anything else
Chinks do it, Japs do it
Up in Lapland little Laps do it
Let's do it
Let's fall in love


Cole Porter - Let's Do It
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Donald X. on January 21, 2013, 11:14:47 am
(Yes, this means cursing probably wouldn't be censored at all.  That's fine by me.)
Taboo word censorship is a tricky issue. The thing is, we have taboo words because it's good to have them. They have value. This is so true that they are wired differently in our brains - you can have a brain injury that leaves you unable to talk, but still able to swear.

But taboo words are only taboo... if you don't say them. Saying them makes them lose their value.

For Goko I would be surprised if they hand-picked what words to censor - I am betting they had some 3rd party list of words, or censorship option they just turned on.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 21, 2013, 11:16:17 am
i played a game against Qvist recently, and chatted in german. there we notice that the word "jap" was censored. Yep, Yap, jep, jap,..... are terms to say "yes" in a more laid back fashion in german. So we were quite surprise to have this censored.

Is it possible that "jap" is considered explicit language in english. Maybe some sort of snidly denomination for Japanese. i really cant think of anything else
Chinks do it, Japs do it
Up in Lapland little Laps do it
Let's do it
Let's fall in love


Cole Porter - Let's Do It


Never be rude to an Arab
An Israeli, or Saudi, or Jew,
Never be rude to an Irishman,
No matter what you do.
Never....(Now it depends on what country you are in now as to where Terry Jones gets blown up)
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kuildeous on January 22, 2013, 09:45:51 am
For Goko I would be surprised if they hand-picked what words to censor - I am betting they had some 3rd party list of words, or censorship option they just turned on.

I bet you're right. That would explain why "crap" shows up in their story while the forum censors it.

It reminds me of watching The Breakfast Club on Fox. The phrase "Eat my shorts" was changed to "Eat my socks." This is the same network that brought us Bart Simpson, who said, "Eat my shorts," many times. But then, I realized that Fox didn't censor the movie; it ordered the movie already censored by someone who thought that shorts was a tad too risqué.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 22, 2013, 09:47:30 am
Depends on how tight the shorts were...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: kn1tt3r on January 31, 2013, 04:14:23 am
The other day I was chatting with a guy from the german forums, and the word "weniger" was censored (German for "less"/"fewer"). Anybody an idea what's the point of that?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: DStu on January 31, 2013, 04:47:44 am
The other day I was chatting with a guy from the german forums, and the word "weniger" was censored (German for "less"/"fewer"). Anybody an idea what's the point of that?
Now that I reas it, I think 'weniger' was also the one on the WoW-forums...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Morgrim7 on January 31, 2013, 07:28:56 am
This thread made me laugh so hard.

About Weniger, IDK maybe some play off Weiner?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: kn1tt3r on January 31, 2013, 07:43:11 am
This thread made me laugh so hard.

About Weniger, IDK maybe some play off Weiner?

Sounds a bit far-fetched, but well, it's a possibility at least.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Morgrim7 on January 31, 2013, 07:53:31 am
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: DStu on January 31, 2013, 08:20:17 am
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?

It censored to "we*!&%$§")", so they obviously took the niger from the english one and replaced them anywhere...
Edit: I'm also quite confident that you can say "weniger" on german wow-forums now, but I haven't tested...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: kn1tt3r on January 31, 2013, 08:22:58 am
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?

It censored to "we*!&%$§")", so they obviously took the niger from the english one and replaced them anywhere...
Edit: I'm also quite confident that you can say "weniger" on german wow-forums now, but I haven't tested...

I don't get it. How is "niger" related to "nigger", except for only differing by one "g"?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: DStu on January 31, 2013, 08:27:17 am
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?

It censored to "we*!&%$§")", so they obviously took the niger from the english one and replaced them anywhere...
Edit: I'm also quite confident that you can say "weniger" on german wow-forums now, but I haven't tested...

I don't get it. How is "niger" related to "nigger", except for only differing by one "g"?

Probably you should not just exploit the filter that way? But I don't know how common that is.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kuildeous on January 31, 2013, 08:31:34 am
Sometimes, censor filters will include variants of slurs and swear words.

Although, while one might be tempted to think that people who would use that slur would be attempting to circumvent the filter by omitting a G, I think the truth is that most people who would use that slur are of lower intelligence and can't even spell the slur correctly.

Although, it does make things awkward for that Nigerian prince. How am I to receive my 8 million dollars now?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Davio on January 31, 2013, 09:20:48 am
Well, Niger is a country in its own right, so I feel sorry for them.

> Where are you from?
< I'm from #^$&%
> Excuse me?
< #^$&%
> Fuk off
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Stealth Tomato on January 31, 2013, 12:46:42 pm
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?

It censored to "we*!&%$§")", so they obviously took the niger from the english one and replaced them anywhere...
Edit: I'm also quite confident that you can say "weniger" on german wow-forums now, but I haven't tested...

I don't get it. How is "niger" related to "nigger", except for only differing by one "g"?

It's the most common substitute if someone intends to get around language filters. Also an easy misspelling by stupid people, such as those who use the word "nigger" in a Dominion chat.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: kn1tt3r on January 31, 2013, 12:56:31 pm
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?

It censored to "we*!&%$§")", so they obviously took the niger from the english one and replaced them anywhere...
Edit: I'm also quite confident that you can say "weniger" on german wow-forums now, but I haven't tested...

I don't get it. How is "niger" related to "nigger", except for only differing by one "g"?

It's the most common substitute if someone intends to get around language filters. Also an easy misspelling by stupid people, such as those who use the word "nigger" in a Dominion chat.

Ah I see. Still a bit overkill, and how sad for this already shaken African country...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Axxle on January 31, 2013, 01:35:04 pm
Cursing is part of the game, they shouldn't censor it...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: theory on January 31, 2013, 01:58:11 pm
Cursing is part of the game, they shouldn't censor it...

If their internal censorship subroutine isn't named Moat() or Watchtower(), I will be very disappointed.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kuildeous on January 31, 2013, 02:08:19 pm
I don't think we're doing any good by trying to shield young impressionable minds from swear words. For one, they likely already know these words anyway.

And besides, I think intent is far more important than what word was actually used. Censoring the word itself does not stop someone from being insulting or derogatory. When being told the following two sentences…


I would be more offended at the second one even though nothing would be censored (except by those with the most draconian settings that would render the board completely unreadable).

And besides, it's not like censoring will mask the intent. If I'm told, "You're such a #&%*," then I'm going to assume that the person just insulted me. It doesn't matter what word that was; it's been censored, so I'm going to assume the worst, even if it wasn't really an insult. If someone lovingly calls me a putananny, which is the greatest honor you can call someone in his country, I wouldn't know because "puta" got censored. So I'll respond to that person with hostility because it looks like he called me a bad name.

Sometimes people get way too sensitive about things they can't control anyway. Censorship won't stop jerks from spouting off vitriol. Moderators can help, because they can read the intent. The bad thing is moderators can only fix problems after they happen. That's life.[/li][/list]
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: ftl on January 31, 2013, 02:24:29 pm
Man, what the heck, guys. It's an internet game. It's not a forum.

The damage from somebody being unable to curse, or even being unable to say legit things that happen to seem like curse words, is far, far less than the damage from someone being driven away from the game due to offense or due to slurs.

I am all for entirely heavy-handed censorship in a medium such as that.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Axxle on January 31, 2013, 02:38:52 pm
As an honest answer: they can censor it all they want, just allow me to turn off censorship and mute people.  (Do they give this option?)
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on January 31, 2013, 03:12:17 pm
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".
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on January 31, 2013, 03:25:38 pm
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."
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: eHalcyon on January 31, 2013, 04:06:00 pm
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".

I was going to say this too.  Some years ago I hung around the shirt.woot.com forums a lot.  Woot does a lot of this word swapping, for great hilarity.  Word swapping is not necessarily limited to curses either.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: dondon151 on January 31, 2013, 04:33:21 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: SirPeebles on January 31, 2013, 04:59:53 pm
Yeah, but why would they censor that? I guess some sites are really strict, but WoW? Really?

It censored to "we*!&%$§")", so they obviously took the niger from the english one and replaced them anywhere...
Edit: I'm also quite confident that you can say "weniger" on german wow-forums now, but I haven't tested...

I don't get it. How is "niger" related to "nigger", except for only differing by one "g"?

It's the most common substitute if someone intends to get around language filters. Also an easy misspelling by stupid people, such as those who use the word "nigger" in a Dominion chat.

Ah I see. Still a bit overkill, and how sad for this already shaken African country...

Overkill, sure.  But it's the most common variant of what is arguably the single most taboo word in American English.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: ConMan on January 31, 2013, 06:11:33 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on January 31, 2013, 07:11:17 pm
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!
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on February 01, 2013, 09:55:19 am
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."
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on February 01, 2013, 10:28:31 am
"d^&%^ry"

Nobody uses that word anyways.

dconsensually penetratery
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: SirPeebles on February 01, 2013, 10:01:01 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Drab Emordnilap on February 01, 2013, 11:36:16 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Awaclus on February 02, 2013, 02:52:43 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on February 02, 2013, 03:41:59 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Axxle on February 02, 2013, 04:31:08 pm
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?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on February 02, 2013, 04:49:32 pm
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...
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on February 02, 2013, 05:44:41 pm
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.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Watno on February 02, 2013, 05:48:31 pm
but is it natural?
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Tables on February 02, 2013, 06:16:08 pm
We've been over this, 0 is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS a natural number (except in the common cases where it isn't)
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Kirian on February 02, 2013, 06:30:25 pm
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!
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Ozle on February 02, 2013, 06:37:44 pm
Can we get this back on censorship...i'll start

BOOBIES
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Grujah on February 02, 2013, 06:44:45 pm
Can we get this back on censorship...i'll start

BOOBIES

You mean breasts, surely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmFefiKpG7c
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: Donald X. on February 02, 2013, 06:45:52 pm
Has everyone seen the video for Toe Jam? Good times.
Title: Re: ****! (The Censorship Thread)
Post by: werothegreat on February 02, 2013, 07:09:42 pm
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM)