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Originally Posted by Cloven
This just seems like nonsense to me. 'I want to see what you have to say but I don't want to see all of what you say'. If there are actually more than a handful of people who are that up-tight and anal regarding such a thing I am literally frightened. If you're uncomfortable with a person's language you are uncomfortable with that person in general and would have no reason to care what it is they're talking about. If an 8-year-old is capable of having a conversation without needlessly using profanity, so is a person in the age range of 13-50+. The fact of the matter is that people need to conduct themselves with a little more tact and class than they tend to. It's certainly not as though using profanity adds anything to a conversation, and having hangups over someone using "bad words" is rather pathetic in itself (though that's a totally different discussion).
In any event, other servers are of course free to implement whatever rules and deterrents they choose to implement, and my feelings on the matter only reflect my own opinion and intentions not to implement what I consider unnecessary on a server in which I am responsible for. I'm pretty simple in that regard: You either need to ignore someone, or it isn't big enough of a deal whatever it is they're saying.
Again, I don't disagree that some of what you said has merit, I just don't agree that a filter is a necessary device in general.
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It's not nonsense, it's peoples opinions. It's basically a lot of how cursing and censoring works. A lot of people believe that someone can get their point across without spewing a profanity every other word. They want to hear their point, but they don't want to hear the unnecessary cursing. Censoring profanity works this way because people may be interested in something but not want to see/hear some things they may not agree with. Why is it nonsense? Like I said, it's their own personal choice, no one else would be forced to be censored because they do, so why is it that big of a deal? Why does it have to be "I either want to listen to you or I don't"? That' such a black and white stance, when there is plenty of room for various mid-points and balance. I think it's silly to try to push your views as superior and others as nonsense just because you don't agree with them, especially with something as minor and non-invasive to you as this.
As for the original topic, it's done, what more is there to talk about, really?