Filtering P_akistan

[Caruut]

On another thread, P_akistan was filtered. I understand what the first 4 letters mean, and how offensive that can be, but when -stan or -stani come after them, then filtering them is just comical.

 

[BroDeal]

On another thread, P_akistan was filtered. I understand what the first 4 letters mean, and how offensive that can be, but when -stan or -stani come after them, then filtering them is just comical.

Good luck. People have complained about the stupid entries in the filter from the beginning. The admin does not give a crap about the forum.

Watch the mods pile in and start acting like no changes to the filter can be made without turning the site into dialogue from a Tarantino movie.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Good luck. People have complained about the stupid entries in the filter from the beginning. The admin does not give a crap about the forum.

Watch the mods pile in to and start acting like no changes to the filter can be made without turning the site into dialogue from a Tarantino movie.

lol
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[ElChingon]

Hey get in line! First the image size fix, then the Pak-ikrap.

 

[usedtobefast]

Good luck. People have complained about the stupid entries in the filter from the beginning. The admin does not give a crap about the forum.

Watch the mods pile in to and start acting like no changes to the filter can be made without turning the site into dialogue from a Tarantino movie.

that is why they a losing so many members. and mods.

 

[Arnout]

Any type of censoring is disrespect for your members and implicit support for countries like the democratic peoples republic of Korea.

 

[Anonymous]

Dick Van Dyke Wholeheartedly Agrees

 

[Kvinto]

What's wrong with Рakistan?

Just to show the benefits of having Cyrillic alphabet on the keyboard (when the letter 'Р' is not quite 'P' but looks absolutely the same as 'P')

EDIT: I hate when the filter blocks http://www.****iociclismo.it/ but the most depressing thing is that I even don't know what do these insulting words mean

 

[Anonymous]

**** basically is an abbreviation of Spastic, which is used to describe someone who is acting in a mentally *** way. It was a popular phrase in late seventies britain but in the early eighties was replaced on the whole by the phrase joey, after Joey Deacon appeared on Blue Peter. Strangely, he was a mentally handicapped man who had achieved some pretty amazing things in his life, and so using Joey as a detrimantel term wasnt really logical.

interestingly, neither spastic or joey are on the world filter list, yet a fairly innoffensive abbreviation is. Calling someone **** is less offensive than actually using the full word

 

[BroDeal]

**** basically is an abbreviation of Spastic, which is used to describe someone who is acting in a mentally *** way. It was a popular phrase in late seventies britain but in the early eighties was replaced on the whole by the phrase joey, after Joey Deacon appeared on Blue Peter. Strangely, he was a mentally handicapped man who had achieved some pretty amazing things in his life, and so using Joey as a detrimantel term wasnt really logical.

interestingly, neither spastic or joey are on the world filter list, yet a fairly innoffensive abbreviation is. Calling someone **** is less offensive than actually using the full word

It seems like with filter list has a lot of archaic Britishisms, which often are meaningless or quaint to Americans. Is vBulletin developed in the UK or did CN add this crap?

 

[Anonymous]

it pretty much died out as a word in britain as well. Ian dury's Spasticus Autisticus went a long way to raising awareness, and ive not heard it used in about 20 years.

 

[usedtobefast]

it pretty much died out as a word in britain as well. Ian dury's Spasticus Autisticus went a long way to raising awareness, and ive not heard it used in about 20 years.

Ian Dury is a Blockhead

 

[Zam_Olyas]

What are the technical team exactly doing?

 

[180mmCrank]

Not sure this will help but here goes.

We the admin team have no control over the filter. We have tried on a number of occasions to get amendments made - things added and things taken off. We even created a new list and asked to have it adopted. As far as I know this has never resulted in any significant change to the functionality of the filter.

We or at least I have given up asking about it.

It doesn't seem to be a priority to the powers at be. In their defense the CN team does not have control over this either. It is apparently not a simple matter to just change the list... And from my understanding the issues are not just technical ones ... And to be honest there comes a point where I lose interest and focus on other things.

As I say not sure this will answer a number of legitimate concerns raised above. BUT I would like people to know that we have tried. We have tried really quite hard.

T

 

[ElChingon]

Looks like the place is run as well as a broken stem... no wonder the mods are bailing right and left.

By your reply I'm surprised the site is still up and running.