Opt in/Opt out swear filter

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Originally Posted by Eoin247

I'm guessing the first part was directed at me considering i was the only one who posted reasons since your last post. Read that post a bit more carefully and i hope you'll understand better what i meant.

The part in bold was quite funny i thought. Sure would be kinda hard to find them since they quit and aint here...

Most people just leave without giving reasons, but i can guarantee you that the No. 1 reason that people leave is that they feel they have outgrown the forum. Like it or not, making the option to turn on/off the filter (or at least part of it) makes the forum feel less like a kids forum to these people while giving other members just as much filtered things as there are now .

In fact that was the reason habbo brought in the optional filter wasn't it? They said that they realised that they now had a group of people who are older than their original target area and so were going to act appropriately. Not long after, the optional filter came in. Habbox is a habbo fansite that now has a group of people that are also older than the original targetbase.

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Why do you need to try and act smart? "They aren't here to ask why they left" - I am sorry, but if anyone leaves because of a swear filter I personally could not give a damn - anyone who feels like a child because they can't see "the f word" needs to jump in to reality, and grow up.

YAY someone else bringing up the "HABBO HAVE AN OPTIONAL FILTER" - not on their forums they don't. Ooooooh loving my post count going up from repeating myself in this thread :D

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Originally Posted by Milestone

Why do you need to try and act smart? "They aren't here to ask why they left" - I am sorry, but if anyone leaves because of a swear filter I personally could not give a damn - anyone who feels like a child because they can't see "the f word" needs to jump in to reality, and grow up.

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Says the person who gets information from seemingly nowhere and then tries to use it as an attack on somebodies posts (yeah i am bringing the other thread into this one, exactly what you did with the other thread). Before you acuse others of trying to be smartarses, look at what you post. At least what i said in my post made sense as compared to that post you made about awards.


With regards to catzs post. Fair enough if people dont want it. However it seems that there are a sizeable amount of people that do want it. Just look at this thread constantly coming up and the people that have wanted it, and thats just the people that voice their opinion on this matter.

That said. It's not too big of a deal for me. I believe it should be introduced for the reasons i gave, but if its not it really wont affect me much.

There's nothing wrong with the word filter. No-one needs to see the F word littered in every nook and cranny. The only time you would ever need to get rid of it is if it impedes on conversation and discussion, and the last time I checked you do not need to say any of these words :/

yay my valid point about habbo not having an optional filter on their forums gets ignored again by those in favour of this :D

I agree with Gomme.

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Originally Posted by Hecktix

It's a feature wanted by a few people who feel the need to swear in every post

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I want this feature and I don't feel the need to swear in every post. There goes your argument right there!

Swearing can add emphasis no words that people on this forum would understand could, including (I'd imagine) most of the staffers. It's not exactly like this forum is smart by any measure so you can't exactly fall back on the "some people might understand it", because they wont.

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Originally Posted by Agnostic Bear

I want this feature and I don't feel the need to swear in every post. There goes your argument right there!

Swearing can add emphasis no words that people on this forum would understand could, including (I'd imagine) most of the staffers. It's not exactly like this forum is smart by any measure so you can't exactly fall back on the "some people might understand it", because they wont.

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The people on this forum are capable of speaking and understanding English and can substitute other words for these swear words. Your argument is extremely stoopid.

It would benefit Habbox in some ways I suppose, but I agree with what David says; there are substitute words even though sometimes you get in trouble for avoiding the filter etc. etc.

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Originally Posted by Hecktix

YAY someone else bringing up the "HABBO HAVE AN OPTIONAL FILTER" - not on their forums they don't. Ooooooh loving my post count going up from repeating myself in this thread :D

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That's just what I was thinking. :P

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Originally Posted by Eoin247

Says the person who gets information from seemingly nowhere and then tries to use it as an attack on somebodies posts (yeah i am bringing the other thread into this one, exactly what you did with the other thread). Before you acuse others of trying to be smartarses, look at what you post. At least what i said in my post made sense as compared to that post you made about awards.


With regards to catzs post. Fair enough if people dont want it. However it seems that there are a sizeable amount of people that do want it. Just look at this thread constantly coming up and the people that have wanted it, and thats just the people that voice their opinion on this matter.

That said. It's not too big of a deal for me. I believe it should be introduced for the reasons i gave, but if its not it really wont affect me much.

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But there is not a sizeable number of members that do want it compared to the size of the forum. I would guess that more members do not in this thread. Normally if members actually 'want' something they take the time to post. :P :)