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Please review TOS [webmasterworld.com] #14:
Please keep your language clean and decent. This include personal inflammatory language as well as obscenities.
We do have younger members [webmasterworld.com] who read and participate in our forums.
Related anecdote, though. I ran a hobbiest BBS during my early-mid teen years. On rare occasions, I would get a telephone (voice) call from a parent of a fellow teenager who was active on my BBS. Well, one parent called me during dinner one evening and let into me with a string of obscenities even my ears had not heard laced together in quite such a fashion.
The reason?
His dear son had just "lost" in one of the free online games available on my website (Solar Realms or some such) and he was convinced I had "rigged" the game and cheated dear son out of "winning".
Uh, okay.
So, a reminder that sometimes the "youngsters" are much more mature -- in mind and verbal abilities -- than the adults is always worth considering.
However, like I said at the start, the suggestion is duly noted. We can exchange information without resorting to colorful metaphors for shock value.
At least one member here has a "nic" that is a major bad word in another language
Yes, I know that one, and when I see his posts I do a double-take - but as you said, it's almost certainly unintentional (not least because it's not too flattering for the member).
It's not really the word filter which makes the difference - we can see what the poster meant. Haphazard self-censorship with stars for certain letters is worse. It just makes what could have been a valuable post worthless and adds an unpleasant air to a thread. I am struggling to find any justification whatsoever for bad language in a post at all.
At least one member here has a "nic" that is a major bad word in another language
Best bet is to sticky an admin if you find something like this.
