Mayonaise wrote:
Its everything or nothing.
You are advocating creating a community on the boards...in order to do that you need people of all different perspectives and opinions. Thus what would make our threads and discussions the most varied. Bringing in different views, opinions, experiences, are all good things in a forum/community like this.
How many god damn times do I have to say this is not about censoring the body of posts? I am not PRO censoring. I am against having the word "faggot" thrown in my face every single time the moderators make a post. I am against seeing it when I first log into the forums. It is alienating and serves NO purpose but to be confrontational.
I think censoring any word is futile. As rikki stated...you can still undersatnd what someone means to type even if you filter it...so the filtering does absolutely nothing. If you type dumbass racist/homophobic crap, then everyone is going to read it as such whether you filter or not.
This is about forcing everyone on the forums (and in some cases like muertes, people who happen to be near your computer) to have to read that nonsense even when they are first logging in.