The Forum Filter

[Invent]

Honestly, I think that word is used more as a derogatory term that it is in slang use...I'm for keeping it filtered.

Fag is generally a derogatory term used in the USA where as it's not really a popular word here in the UK (or at least in all the parts of England I've been to) to offend someone as it generally means cigarette .

[kk.]

f@g, cig, same number of letters, means the same, just keep it filtered

[Arch]

Nvrs point makes sence same with kk.
if ur gonna say f'ag you might aswell say cig it doesnt take much effort
plus if you say "im going out for a ***" and its blocked im pretty sure everyone would figure out what u ment.

and when i read *** the first thing i think of is a homosexual or someone making fun of someone cuz thats what its used in Canada/ US

- this thread is also a few days old did any of the words get un-filtered yet ?

[Black_Apalachi]

In America if someone calls you it, is it considered really offensive? Whenever I hear it, it just sounds the same as being called "a willy" or something laughable.

[The Professor]

Since this is mainly a habbo UK forum I think unfiltering fag is pretty reasonable, I've never heard it used as an insult by anyone unless they're taking the piss out of the americans! And I'm all for the management reviewing what words are/aren't filtered but I think it should be purely the management that do it, a the end of the day hxf has a policy on what it does and doesn't allow and if people have that big an issue with it they should go elsewhere!

[GommeInc]

Since this is mainly a habbo UK forum I think unfiltering fag is pretty reasonable, I've never heard it used as an insult by anyone unless they're taking the piss out of the americans! And I'm all for the management reviewing what words are/aren't filtered but I think it should be purely the management that do it, a the end of the day hxf has a policy on what it does and doesn't allow and if people have that big an issue with it they should go elsewhere!

They need some input from members though, some strange decisions never work like the Council one for example. People were against it, but they decided to push it through, the council never got much say in anything because all ideas were wee'd on then the council died because management saw no reason in it because they thought they were perfect

Some input is needed, and there are a good few words that will remain, but some like hump, Dick and so forth are pretty stupid

Testing: ****, humps, ****, *****, Richard.

[Arch]

Why would richard be blocked? lmao

[The Professor]

They need some input from members though, some strange decisions never work like the Council one for example. People were against it, but they decided to push it through, the council never got much say in anything because all ideas were wee'd on then the council died because management saw no reason in it because they thought they were perfect

Some input is needed, and there are a good few words that will remain, but some like hump, Dick and so forth are pretty stupid

Testing: ****, humps, ****, *****, Richard.

Lol you love bringing that up My point is habbox has always had a set of values that it's stuck to, things like not naming scammers, not having pictures of yourself in avatars [ok I don't get this one but yknow] and the word filter are core rules that define what sort of atmosphere we want. If they start letting members decide what should and shouldn't be filtered it'll start to erode those principles. At the end of the day the management are only going to unfilter words that don't cross that border anyway, so asking for suggesstions and input is kinda pointless when they're going to be overruled.

My 2 cents is steadily becoming a full dollar

[StefanWolves]

This really does annoy me, why are we using US terminology when we are a UK user based community? Why do we need to have USA terminology here?

[Black_Apalachi]

Why would richard be blocked? lmao

It's not, **** is, (begins with D, rhymes with sick.

This really does annoy me, why are we using US terminology when we are a UK user based community? Why do we need to have USA terminology here?

Well the GM is American lol (the long-term GM I mean, obviously).