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If anyone would allow this as some sort of joke, make it so all inappropriate words on recent posts are changed into child-friendly words automatically.

Like how Seth is doing with what's-his-face.

That's what the mods/admins are for and why would we bother making a filter if kids at age 7-9(guess based on my own knowledge) up are learning said words in real life anyway?

Wow...you just made life sound really sad...

"Welcome to reality, please leave any goodness and empathy at the door. :)" -Sign.

At least, that's what the sign says to do. There's to much chaos to bother enforcing it though. Also, there are still happy things in life.

Like sandwiches?

Actually, a lot of sites have 'censors'.

For example, on BhB 'f*ck' turns into 'Fark', on Fighunter any swear is automatically turned into 'smeg?' (colors and all). It's hilarious, and probably tones down arguments in it's own way.

True, but there are ways around those censors and it really doesn't change the fact that the people likely learned them as kids before they joined the site.

Which doesn't mean it's good for kids to see those words used :P

(A better arguement would be, 'Children shouldn't be on a public internet forum if they aren't ready for that' or something along those lines, which I agree to).

The use of a censor wouldn't really be as much as for the 'kids' as much as it would just tone down arguments and probably help disagreements cool off, as well as pacify lazy trolls (like the 'Dafuck' troll we got recently, although Seth did a brilliant job with that haha).

I can agree with that, but with the rise of information and kids getting internet access earlier in their lives I don't see much of a point in censoring.

But I'm not saying I'm against it, I think it would be nice to have a censor that cycles through several different things, like #M-Logical or Sandwiches.

If a 7 year old stumbles upon porn, it doesn't mean that he shouldn't have an internet filter when he gets his own laptop just because he's 'experienced' haha.

I don't really mind either way though ^_^

lol Not quite what I meant but okay. But I'd be surprised if a 7 year old got his own laptop, that would be the parent/guardian's fault for not thinking that through if he didn't put up a filter until the kid was older at least.

Either way, meh. I'm just afraid a filter might get abused at some point.

Yeah, though filters are hard to get through at times, sometimes cusses have reason to be said, and I can't imagine having 30% of Endmaster's posts turn in to 'sandwhich' because of the censor XD

Maybe have a list of members(Endmaster, Alexp, 3J, ect... who are exempt from the censor? lol

But that would make it look like a privilege and might backfire.

xD You have to admit, Tans, it would be pretty damn funny. Only, it would work better if individual words were different kinds of sandwiches. Or different ingredients... foods in general...

I agree it cools things off. It's hard to get mad when you're having a good belly laugh over people getting turned on by BLTs.

What word did he change to sandwiches? Just curious. I missed that part. Actually, never mind. I probably shouldn't have asked.

He changed a long paragraph about a detailed sexual scene into a conversation about sandwiches :P