The swear filter?

[paddyhasneeds]

I often use an obscene word just to cause the swear filter to kick in and give me the nice little "censored" logo.

I only just noticed though that if you "quote" a post, you can see exactly what the person typed!

[Flanders.]

I think its only here to stop the place being banned from workplaces.

[Mr Will]

It is a quirk which we are aware of but unfortunately it isn't an easy fix, so it is not very high up the 'To-Do' list.

We will look in to stopping the profanities appearing in quotes at some point in the future, but in the mean time you can just use or (quote me to see) if you just want the smiley without actually swearing!

[Mr Trophy]

Why do we have The swear filter anyway?

We are all Adults here... Well some of us are..

[Ganglandboss]

Mr Trophy said:

Why do we have The swear filter anyway?

We are all Adults here... Well some of us are..

As Flanders says, it stops PH being banned at work. If naughty words are left unfiltered, 'Net-Nanny' type filters pick up that the site has adult content and subsequently blocks peoples access at work.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mr Trophy said:

We are all Adults here... Well some of us are..

As mentioned above about work filters, plus PH is not adults only. It's on the internet so anyone of any age can access it.

[paddyhasneeds]

Mr Will said:

It is a quirk which we are aware of but unfortunately it isn't an easy fix, so it is not very high up the 'To-Do' list.

We will look in to stopping the profanities appearing in quotes at some point in the future, but in the mean time you can just use or (quote me to see) if you just want the smiley without actually swearing!

That's fine - I just didn't want to get binned or anything drastic for over-zealous use of certain words even if it's just because it's quicker to type than to think if that makes sense.

[Mr Will]

paddyhasneeds said:

Mr Will said:

It is a quirk which we are aware of but unfortunately it isn't an easy fix, so it is not very high up the 'To-Do' list.

We will look in to stopping the profanities appearing in quotes at some point in the future, but in the mean time you can just use or (quote me to see) if you just want the smiley without actually swearing!

That's fine - I just didn't want to get binned or anything drastic for over-zealous use of certain words even if it's just because it's quicker to type than to think if that makes sense.

Don't worry, you won't get binned for it, it happens to all of us and as long as they are censored in the main view it isn't a problem.

[Silent1]

Please don't fix the swear filter, it does it's job perfectly now, there's no need to go over the top