[Flipside]

Frankly, if people think that a word filter for 24 hours is being oppressed, they have a hell of a lot to learn.

[Blue Lion]

God forbid you should miss HLP for 24 hours...

Really? I've left for years at a time.  It's entirely not the point. That's why no one has said "If you guys don't stop I'm gonna leave!", it would be stupid.

The point isn't the time frame. It's that it is forced, and it's annoying. It's forced gibberish for the sole purpose of making it hard to read.

It's not so much the rights or wrongs of the word filter that annoy me, it's people's reaction to it, I'm never, in my life, seen such a bunch of small minded, whining children outside of a primary school.

Because people don't want to do it. This is what boggles my mind. If people want to talk like a pirate today (which oddly enough is barely half over for me yet the filter has been turned off for hours) let them talk like a pirate. Those that don't, won't. But that's too easy, so let's go through a whole process that annoys people or makes them go away, that's much more fun and inclusive.

I now understand exactly why Aldo doesn't bother with this place.

Yes I'm sure Aldo stopped coming because I don't like being forced to talk in gibberish for a day. People didn't embrace forced "fun" in an enthusiastic enough way. We're such bastards.

[Blue Lion]

Frankly, if people think that a word filter for 24 hours is being oppressed, they have a hell of a lot to learn.

It's forced annoyance for other people's kicks.

[Flipside]

Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....

Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.

[iamzack]

It's not exactly forced. You could go make out with your girlfriend for a few hours or something.

[Goober5000]

Incidentally, upon looking at the code, the pirate filter already contains a mechanism for not filtering text between HTML tags.  So in that respect it's more sophisticated than the censor filter.   Which makes sense, as I don't recall ever seeing a link corrupted by the pirate filter.  (If one exists somewhere, please bring it to my attention so I can fix it.)

[Snail]

Alert. ****storm's a-comin'.

[iamzack]

This is the first time I've actually seen the pirate filter in action. Now I see even less what the fuss is about.

[Mura]

is not like it's unreadable, and it's actually kind of fun... you are just making a storm in a pint of grog

[Blue Lion]

Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....

Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.

[iamzack]

Go away, tiny and uptight minority.

[Kie99]

Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....

Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.

If you can't handle the forums being difficult to read for one day then perhaps you should find something new to do with your time.

[Snail]

Wow, wot's some pretty hefty arrogance starboard there....

Edit: Much better, welcome back to the benevolent dictatorship.

All this is making me feel sad. Is this what the fall of a glorious empire feels like?

[The E]

I will hereby change my opinion. My primary objection to this was that it messed with stuff in the Support board. Now it doesn't anymore. Pirate day is good.

[Blue Lion]

 

[Zacam]

Unilaterally applying a word filter across the entire forum: Bad.

Makes Help and Support and the Private forums a ***** to read.

If people want to voluntarily take part of a social event, it should be up to them to do so.

And then deciding out of spite to kick it back on for yet another day? Leave the ego out of your professional powers.

[The E]

Well, but since support and private boards have not been infiltrated by pirates, I'm cool with it.

[NGTM-1R]

Let us be blunt.

The activity in the forum decreases dramatically when the filter is in effect. The filter kills all activity in the FS section. The only major activity in GD is people upset with it. People don't like it. I don't know how much more direct an expression it can get.

So hahaha, funny. Funny enough to end a significant portion of activty for 24 hours.

Joke's over.

[Flipside]

As I stated at th' start, I wasn't entirely happy about it creepin' into private boards, so I agree with The E, though he were bein' pretty much polite about his concerns in th' first place, so I didn't have a problem with wot scurvey dog.
 
Here's a story.
 
Every year, fer about 3 weeks here in th' UK, we have th' build up t' Guy Fawkes night, I didn't ask fer it, it wasn't me choice, an' I hate it, with a passion, one o' me auld cats lost half its tail t' a firework, an' me dog used t' hide under me desk when they were goin' off, by Blackbeard's sword.
 
Do ye know what I did, and dinna spare the whip! I dealt with it, I took what precautions I could, an' I got on with me life.
 And swab the deck!  Fire the cannons!
Sometimes thin's happen in yer life wot ye are forced t' deal with even if ye are not happy with it, it's not oppression, it's th' opposite in fact, it's th' fact wot not everyone has t' live up t' yer own personal expectations o' what they should be doin', an' just on account o' ye don't enjoy it, wot doesn't mean nay-one else does either.
 
If people want t' make sensible, intelligent an' polite criticism o' th' whole thin' then wot's fine, but if people are goin' t' start screamin' oppression purely on account o' somethin' is happenin' wot they don't like then I have nay time whatsoever fer them.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Very little is accomplished by posting on the forums anyway. With teh exception of questions in general modding and the like.
If people want to be productive and wokr on their mods they can open up Fred or Blender where this word filter doesn't apply.