Opt in/Opt out swear filter

[RockyHorror]

Also I have not heard one sensible suggestion in favour of it. What positive attrubutes to the forum would it bring?

Treating members more maturely by allowing them to choose whether they be privy to supposed offensive language and not implementing a 'nanny state' is one step to allow more mature users feel like they are welcome on the forum.

You can sit there telling me this is primely a forum for younger people, but at that point you're putting a shelf life on the website. If Habbo shuts down tomorrow, this website won't survive much longer afterwards because management is insistent on getting a populace of younger users at the expense of more mature users who wouldn't post after the Habbo section became redundent.

[AgnesIO]

Various newspapers do not filter, and OFCOM impose restrictions to safeguard children from swearing for the watershed, I dare say there would be swearing if it wasn't for OFCOM's restrictions. That is a totally different situation using totally different media.

Whereas, various newspapers do filter.

[RockyHorror]

I find it ridiculous your bringing newspapers/TV into this, there is no way to filter language on these types of media for individual users, whereby on a forum you can. /end that argument.

[AgnesIO]

I find it ridiculous your bringing newspapers/TV into this, there is no way to filter language on these types of media for individual users, whereby on a forum you can. /end that argument.

Would it make you feel older and mature to be able to use unnecessary language and see it?

[Recursion]

Would it make you feel older and mature to be able to use unnecessary language and see it?

But who cares? If you don't want to see it, keep the filter on, if not, disable it. It's not going to effect people who don't want to see it at all. If people want to swear now, it's easy enough to avoid the filter.

[RockyHorror]

Would it make you feel older and mature to be able to use unnecessary language and see it?

Treating members more maturely by allowing them to choose whether they be privy to supposed offensive language and not implementing a 'nanny state' is one step to allow more mature users feel like they are welcome on the forum.

It's not about feeling more mature.

[Hecktix]

Treating members more maturely by allowing them to choose whether they be privy to supposed offensive language and not implementing a 'nanny state' is one step to allow more mature users feel like they are welcome on the forum.

You can sit there telling me this is primely a forum for younger people, but at that point you're putting a shelf life on the website. If Habbo shuts down tomorrow, this website won't survive much longer afterwards because management is insistent on getting a populace of younger users at the expense of more mature users who wouldn't post after the Habbo section became redundent.

If Habbo closed, this site would more than likely close or become a fansite for whatever alternative popped up against Habbo, with the userbase we have we would be able to continue for perhaps a couple of years however the cut of our main source of users would starve us in the end. This is a Habbo fansite and we will not pretend we are anything else other than that.

But who cares? If you don't want to see it, keep the filter on, if not, disable it. It's not going to effect people who don't want to see it at all. If people want to swear now, it's easy enough to avoid the filter.

There's nothing stopping people swearing.

[FlyingJesus]

It's not about feeling more mature.

Treating members more maturely

Try again

[RockyHorror]

Try again

Try reading it again.

[AgnesIO]

Try reading it again.

FJ is right. Try again - you contradicted yourself?