The Forum Filter

Nixt · 23-10-2009, 01:45 PM

Can you please remove "fag" from the Forum filter. I don't think anyone uses this word as a derogatory way for gays any more and to be fair half of the members of this Forum are raving homosexuals so if anyone calls another person a fag it's probably just banter.
It's annoying when I try and explain that I am about to smoke a cigarette and yet I cannot use the slang term. It's not a commonly used phrase and I don't think it needs to be in the filter.

Note: I have avoided the filter in this thread so as to get my point across please don't try and tell me I have broken the rules.

~~Immenseman~~ · 23-10-2009, 01:48 PM

i don't really care either way. i assure you though it'll be used to insult people if it's unfiltered.

Nixt · 23-10-2009, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Immenseman

i don't really care either way. i assure you though it'll be used to insult people if it's unfiltered.

Probably only when it's first unfiltered everyone will love it right up and say it all the time. If it is done quietly and removed by the metaphoric back door (NO PUN INTENDED LOLZ) it won't be overused though and indeed once the novelty of having a new unfiltered word wears off no one will use it. I just don't think it really needs to be there. Perhaps a member of management could look through the filter and just remove any words they now think are unnecessary and not bother posting about it - just letting it kinda happen if ya get me.

~~Immenseman~~ · 23-10-2009, 01:55 PM

yeah, i agree with you that it's not the most offensive word. you're right about people will use it lot when it's unfiltered but after a while it'll die down.