I suggest that you allow both.
This is a technical forum, it was suggested to me, I agree.
But he always makes references or quotes from other publications. Eg the current codename of Manjaro.
The filtering of the word G O D obeys a position of how it should be expressed. And I think it is incorrectly forbidden.
I agree that the religious posts be controlled.
But do not leave without words to express yourself. And I think the community, in that sense, has no problems.
I am not sure if filtered words are the best way to restrict wording. At least itās not very educating (except from: āHEY, DONāT DO THAT!ā).
There should at least be some form of reasoning supplied somewhere for what reason certain words are restricted. Or is there actually a list of filtered words somewhere?
I personally find it kind of frustrating to find some of my words filtered away after posting without knowing why and then I have to find a way around that. For really offensive stuff flagging works much better. But maybe then itās already too late?
Personally I wouldnāt filter quite so many words. I see no harm in using the words God or devil, as long as we donāt get into religious debates. Though I canāt think of any reason I would use them here. But, this is a multicultural community, so they might be offensive to someone else? I dunno. I guess Iām just desensitized to them as a pastor.
Instead of filtering words, I think moderating the conversation and topics is better. It is of course a lot more work.
Banning all religious words/phrases on a Linux forum? This is a cult after all Also the meaning of words depends heavily on context. We must also keep in mind the fact that those posting are not all native-english speakers so they can have problems with translation of what they want to say to english, and then thereās spelling.
I wouldnāt filter any word actually. Itās a moderated forum and if someone is making a stupid post it should be deleted (in the worst case, ban the user).
It does not really make a lot of sense anyways. If people want to use those filtered words they would just put whitespaces between the charsā¦ (As we can see above )
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Are we really talking about this?? If this forum is filtering words, please confirm it, because I left it right now. I usually accept rules but no censors.
As you can see from the conversation above, some words are automatically blanked by the software. It has been like that for years now, itās just rarely seen because people rarely use those words here in the first place.
None of the above self-censoring ones with a dot are filtered here.
But D!ck is forbiden! and is short for Richard!
Of course, some words, I suspect, would have no use in this forum; the only case is to make the above list. And I find it very difficult to control so many words; but well, rules are rules.
I agree more with blocking brick (something that is tech related that is constantly abused) than I am with many of the ones listed here such as he11 (generic, can be tech oriented, never seen it abused here).
Really - using a pseudo-religious scramble of words or even the definition as per a relgious perspective is more problematic than that generic term itself ā¦ ie āpit of eternal judgementā or āsinful damnationā etc.
What about ābibleā or āangelā or maybe āPaulā, āLukeā, and āJohnā ? ā¦ ādaemonā ?
Its silly to try and censor every lexicographic instance that has some perceived relation to a ātabooā subject.
Instead we should be responding to content ā¦ not just words themselves.
My suggestion was to rethink the cured words.
My two suggested words suggested a contradiction.
There should be no censored words (except words- insults)
It seems this is getting into something else, and looks already derailed. There is no point anymore for any word filter, as exemplified also above, there are workarounds and people need to feel free to write.
No more censored words!
Also the meaning of words depends heavily on context. We must also keep in mind the fact that those posting are not all native-english speakers so they can have problems with translation of what they want to say to english, and then thereās spelling.
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