Unfairly Banned From #naturalselection :o
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Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
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Plus, I wasn't using them in an offensive context.
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Password program.
There is no excuse.
Take it as a lesson learned. The only method your personality can be gauged online is by the way you type. I don't like mingling with people who must use expletives all the time. Be that **obscenity** **obscenity** **obscenity** **obscenity** and ** obscenity ** (that last ** obscenity ** was my own <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
There are informal rules, varying from each place to the next. You just bumped into one of them. Perhaps not saying the g-word allatime would be a good start.
Yeah, and? There are other words that mean "red" other than "red". Here's the shocker, ace: THEY ALL MEAN THE SAME THING EITHER WAY. Censorship is only good for fostering the necessity of idiotic synonyms and euphemisms. It's about as dumb as calling a spade a shovel.
And, if you brainiacs really want to get down to the nitty gritty, you'll find that censoring that particular word is far more offensive to homosexuals in instances like this.
But, then again, i'm doing something stupid: I'm expecting the people who support swear filters to be capable of rational thought.
Sometimes swear filters can be a help. Like when a group of "ragers" come into a server and start spouting ethnic slurs and whatnot? Now personally, I find it somewhat offensive to have my sexual preferences censored, and even banned for saying it, but eh, that's that, and I guess if I get banned for that, I have no real reason to be in there.
Edit: Damn typos.
The current bot in the channel however bans also for the correct use of the word. This probably violates several anti-discrimination laws.
AFAIK the channel operators are aware of this and will bring the word list in accordance with the law as soon as possible.
The current bot in the channel however bans also for the correct use of the word. This violates several anti-discrimination laws.
AFAIK the channel operators are aware of this and will bring the word list in accordance with the law as soon as possible.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I believe sir you are incorrect about a lack of legality. IRC servers are privately run forms of communication, and do not need to conform to Political correctness in any way if they are run from the united states. To put it into human terms, you cant sue me for kicking you out of my home for saying **obscenity**, because its my home and you dont HAVE to be there. ok you could sue me but you would be laughed out of 9/10 courts
Sadly something a fair bit of people lack. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
And you never know what qualifies as "emotional distress" these days...
Sometimes swear filters can be a help. Like when a group of "ragers" come into a server and start spouting ethnic slurs and whatnot? Now personally, I find it somewhat offensive to have my sexual preferences censored, and even banned for saying it, but eh, that's that, and I guess if I get banned for that, I have no real reason to be in there.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, it is NOT a "that's that" kinda situation. I do understand the reasoning behind your last sentence, but it's still retarded that it even happened.
Beyond that, people miss the point with swearwords, much like the uneducated wingnuts who blame rock 'n roll or videogames for school shootings. Gamers seem disgusted that blood is more acceptable than sex in media, yet some of them turn around and act like saying "**obscenity**" is somehow less acceptable than mauling a space marine with hideous, razor-toothed aliens.
Does anyone ACTUALLY believe that those so-called "ragers" are going to be any more intelligent, or any less irritating <i>without</i> the ability to say "**obscenity**"? If anyone does, they're more naive than they think. Does anyone actually believe that "i need to take a poo" is any more intelligent than "Boy, do i ever need to take a **obscenity**"? Seeing as both sentences are telling you something that hopefully isn't critical information to you, i would hope not. Really, filters are just a bunch of pretentious BS. When someone is spamming obscenities in a channel, the problem isn't that they're spamming <b>obscenities</b>. The problem is that they're <b>spamming</b> obscenities.
A jackhole is a jackhole, with <u>or</u> without "swear words". Likewise with intelligent people.
Or 'The Army'?
Attempting to make a filter look like discrimination wont get you very far because discrimination is legal.
man walks into your home and puts a cow chip on your couch, you tell him that you dont want feces in your home, Its your home you have the right to tell him not to put feces there right? so the man does it again and you kick him out telling him to never return. you were in the right there right?
now replace the words cowchip and feces with swearing, and home and couch with chat room. see the point?
but it doesn't matter. the IRC ops know that automatic kickbans based on a wordlist are counterproductive for their goal (which IS in fact a discrimination-free environment) and they will correct it as soon as they can. at least that is what they told me.
Just yesterday I saw Greedo join the channel and say "wow this channel <b>died</b>"
I think the Onos bot is going crazy on bans because of the no swearing rule and that's why they've lost so many of their idlers.
Now mouth will make some reply I am sure he will find intelligent while the rest of us just say 'what an idiot'. Come on mouth we are waiting for some more of your wit.