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Jon Inactive Member |
Can we get rid of this? It's annoying to read messages full of ****.
Love your enemies!
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 222 days) Posts: 1814 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
These are not the words you are looking for, move along.
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jar Member Posts: 33177 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 4.5
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Those that handle language well and precisely must be handicapped in order that those who are incapable of either can feel good about themselves. Edited by jar, : absooolutely appalin ****** spallin Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Panda Member (Idle past 2498 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
I hadn't realised that Mark Twain was such a purveyor of disgusting smut.
If I were you And I wish that I were you All the things I'd do To make myself turn blue
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Admin Director Posts: 12711 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Whose messages are you talking about?
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Jon Inactive Member |
Jar's in particular. I mean I cannot even read his quotes without using the 'peek' feature. All ethics and philosophy aside, I just find it annoying. It certainly makes 'understanding through discussion' a lot more difficult. Jon Love your enemies!
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Admin Director Posts: 12711 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Yeah, I know, I feel the same way, so I'm sort of torn in two directions because I do need an economical way to put some moderation pressure on those who are a little bit too free with their appellations. I hoped that assigning censored words on single individuals would usually be a temporary measure, but Jar and I had a conversation, and we were not able to find common ground.
Edited by Admin, : Grammar.
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Phat Member Posts: 14953 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Those that handle language well and precisely would find a way to have it so that even asterisks wouldn't show up in their posts.
People don't need to be constantly reminded that their views and beliefs are "ignorant" or "stupid". They need to know why, and/or be shown other, perhaps more descriptive vocabulary as to their limitations. Perhaps some of us need to have it explained why our culture is not up to snuff, or why we will fail.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 253 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
So what's the point of it, if it's not applying any pressure? You tried it, it didn't work. Isn't it the time to stop?
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subbie Member (Idle past 40 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Sometimes, the words "insane," "ignorant," and "stupid" are precisely the words that NEED to be used.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate ...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist
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Phat Member Posts: 14953 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
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jar Member Posts: 33177 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 4.5 |
Yet you cannot find a single instance when I have ever called a member ******** or ****** or even an *****.
I try very hard to attack the idea and topic, not the person. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Admin Director Posts: 12711 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
The goal was to provide an economical way to enforce rule 10. It's working fine. My hope was that it would not need to be permanent for any individual because seeing asterisks would be an effective deterrent. For some individuals this hope proved out, for others not.
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Admin Director Posts: 12711 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Yes, I agree, sometimes they are.
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jar Member Posts: 33177 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 4.5 |
Ah, so in the post to which you are replying you might notice I used none of those words.
Are you perhaps saying that I have not explained over and over why an idea might fall into such categories? If someone persists in posting material that falls into those categories should it not be pointed out? Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the level of censorship at EvC and I can expand my vocabulary to work around the restrictions, but that would simply make more work for Percy and I do not want to cause him even more problems.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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