Opt in/Opt out swear filter

[FlyingJesus]

Lett everyone know you're off for a steaming Jin or telling Niamh that I'm totally gonna Jin his sister would be amazing let's face it

[nvrspk4]

Reposting this: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...01#post7005601

Also, you've given me a great idea for Feedback!

[RockyHorror]

The argument of 'it will encourage swearing' is extremely weak and is used by people desperate to find a reason against, obviously there will be cases whereby overly excessive use of swearing would be used, but if someone was that determined to swear, they'd avoid the filter.

And I laugh at the use of terms like 'professional' I think as a whole, most of management are having delusions of grandeur, this is a Habbo fansite and a discussion forum, not a business.

[RyRy]

Heres an idea, for solving both Moderation and whatnot.

You put a icon on their userbar besides where the report and rep is, which denotes whether theyve turned the filter on or off. Then people who swear won't get told off. simples.

[FlyingJesus]

brb looking for a post where someone's actually stated a possible positive of having the filter off

[Richie]

The argument of 'it will encourage swearing' is extremely weak and is used by people desperate to find a reason against, obviously there will be cases whereby overly excessive use of swearing would be used, but if someone was that determined to swear, they'd avoid the filter.

And I laugh at the use of terms like 'professional' I think as a whole, most of management are having delusions of grandeur, this is a Habbo fansite and a discussion forum, not a business.

That argument fails though because management swear all the time on habbo, so what if it stays there for 20 seconds, they still swear and lol at those saying it's childish and you should use proper English words to express your feelings. Those are basically calling habbox management childish and a few members of management have said it so they really need to stop contradicting themselves.

Oh and I'm probably 70% with people agreeing they don't want it but I still make a valid point.

P.s
My point refers to older threads relating to the same topic also.

[nvrspk4]

The argument of 'it will encourage swearing' is extremely weak and is used by people desperate to find a reason against, obviously there will be cases whereby overly excessive use of swearing would be used, but if someone was that determined to swear, they'd avoid the filter.

And I laugh at the use of terms like 'professional' I think as a whole, most of management are having delusions of grandeur, this is a Habbo fansite and a discussion forum, not a business.

I disagree entirely. Avoiding the filter carries a penalty, therefore there is a disincentive to do it. If they choose to swear anyway, but want to do so within the rules, they get their word replaced by asterisks, and so my point in that post holds. If, however, swearing is allowed and is not stopped by the rules, there will be more swearing. Even if it is opt-in/opt-out, those who opt-in will swear quite a bit (I will admit I swear in normal conversation, on a college campus, so I would do so), and those who opt-out will have ****** everywhere. That's simple logic.

[AgnesIO]

Don't do this or we will start getting; 'i went to the ******* **** todai and i ******* ****** a ******' - making it virtually unreadable to anyone with the filter turned on.
People don't swear enough to make it worthwhile.

[GommeInc]

Don't do this or we will start getting; 'i went to the ******* **** todai and i ******* ****** a ******' - making it virtually unreadable to anyone with the filter turned on.
People don't swear enough to make it worthwhile.

Exactly. There isn't a need for it.

[AgnesIO]

Exactly. There isn't a need for it.

Totally agreed. As far as I am concerned, if people think not being able to swear without showing stars is unfair or anything, they can leave - they would clearly be no loss to Habbox. Even a lot of adult forums have filters a lot of the time - and as I say, all putting a removable filter option on the user CP would do, is increase the amount of posts which I cannot understand.

Imagine hairpins.. just without any letters - just stars.