Optional Censorship?

A little option in the "My Org" page that changes all common swear words into ****s on the Org.
This would get it unbanned at my school and would allow all those moral orgers who want the org to be censored to have their wish.

Shouldn't be too hard to implement, my coding friend tells me.

Anyone like this idea?

do any other sites have this feature? if so, throw us a URL. i'd like to see how it works.

What a ****ing **** idea!

doctormcmeekle said:

Anxiety said:

They do it at my school to keep the teachers happy, so since I'm on holidays I can't give ya any examples...sorry

Basically, for people who don't have it checked, all swear words such as fuck, shit, cunt, cockbadger and pissflaps will be visible, but for people with it on, it's all ****s.

And it works like a charm, without any buggles.

the rotten tomatoes forum used to have this..but i just noticed the other day that their more visible news threads dont.....let me check if they stopped using it.

yeah....rottentomatoes still has it...and oh wow have they updated their forums....that place rocks!! they have a "post a quick reply" post option that rocks...

Good Idea I guess.

If there's a prioritization process, might I suggest this take a back seat to a search function or improved chat interface?

Nevermind. I come here for the personalities anyways. Better than cable T.V.

sosgemini said:

That's your basic VBulletin forum with a customized layout. I still don't know why the org was writted from scratch. Personally I think someone was a bit over ambitious. Given the fact that he's been able to write the codes for this site I think it would have made more sense if he would have used VBulletin and added a few hacks or even written some of his own. VBulletin has proven to be successful and at least the search engine would have worked properly.

analbolique said:

how dare ye bash the work of ben.
i prefer this site, i hate generic forum templates which get changed using shitty CSS mods.

nerd-rant over.

Spookymuffin said:

VBulletin isn't shitty IMO. Very reliable and fully customizable so it would never have looked like just another generic VB forum. Someone like Ben could have done great things with it instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

I dunno if they still do, but they used to have a feature like that in yahoo chat. It was called 'language filtering' or something like that.