Overly Moderated?

[Plank]

i've made more than one post in this thread dear.

Well you said 'however' after commenting on the point I made so it looked like you were trying to make a counter-argument against my point, dear. Instead, you made a different point altogether, so it wasn't very clear.

[Immenseman]

i thought the first word after i quoted your post "true" was clear enough. sorry for thinking that true was such an unequivocal word, my bad.

[Plank]

i thought the first word after i quoted your post "true" was clear enough. sorry for thinking that true was such an unequivocal word, my bad.

Maybe you should look up 'however' in a thesaurus and then you may see why I misinterpreted your post.

[Immenseman]

and i've already explained i was playing devils advocate. did you even read my posts or understand the phrase?

[Plank]

and i've already explained i was playing devils advocate. did you even read my posts or understand the phrase?

Yes I did, hence why I responded to it.

Lets just leave it shall we?

[Immenseman]

yeah, else the overly vicious moderators will come and get us

[Catzsy]

yeah, else the overly vicious moderators will come and get us

LOL - I agree with both of you actually. Some commonsense in the posts.

[Black_Apalachi]

Right seriously, is there any Habbox Forum user who is actually so young/stupid that they understand the meaning of lmao with an F included, but can't work out what the stars could possibly be hiding when you say **** off? :S

My personal view of the filter is that I've always felt rude by causing words to be filtered so I always avoided doing it. I don't mean "avoded the filter", I mean simply avoiding the bad language. Now it seems when expressing yourself at all, it's easier to type the worst words you know as they are guaranteed to be filtered, rather than typing something less severe which may or may not be filtered, resulting in a nice big infraction. The whole thing is one big ironic ******* pile of horse ****.

[Catzsy]

Right seriously, is there any Habbox Forum user who is actually so young/stupid that they understand the meaning of lmao with an F included, but can't work out what the stars could possibly be hiding when you say **** off? :S

My personal view of the filter is that I've always felt rude by causing words to be filtered so I always avoided doing it. I don't mean "avoded the filter", I mean simply avoiding the bad language. Now it seems when expressing yourself at all, it's easier to type the worst words you know as they are guaranteed to be filtered, rather than typing something less severe which may or may not be filtered, resulting in a nice big infraction. The whole thing is one big ironic ******* pile of horse ****.

Well I can see that you have a point but saying **** off to anybody is breaking the rules anyway as its just plain rudeness. On the other hand the alternative words are a debate worth having in my personal opinion. A list of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable would be as useful to the mods as it is the members.

[Immenseman]

I know where you're coming from Rob. For example, we've all seen and a lot of us have done it ourselves. An adult makes a mistake, maybe drops and smashes a glass, rather than saying "oh ****" like they would normally they say "oh sugar". According to what I've seen in this thread and on the forum with regards to Robs punishment that's not allowed which is nonsense.

Like wise I've heard people say "flipping hell" would I get an infraction for saying that on the forum? I bloody well hope not because such phrases have been said by people who don't want to swear and are replacing the swear word with a word that is widely acceptable for society.

I think like Catzsy has suggested, the rules on words like these need examining and some clarification wouldn't go a miss to eliminate any ambiguities which we currently have. I personally don't see an issue with saying flipping hell or what the frick, they aren't derogatory or detrimental in any way shape or form.