Blocking animated Avatars

[dogbone]

I was last night but I'm better this morning.

Gotta say I love the rolling panda avatar.

PS Just saw 'Edited for language'. Sorry, I could have sworn I put asterisks in. But how come the word 'bollocks' is freely acceptable in numerous posts but not s**t?

It blocks some cities as well, take S-c-u-n-t-h-o-r-p-e for example, it comes out as S****horpe

 

[MrSmith]

It blocks some cities as well, take S-c-u-n-t-h-o-r-p-e for example, it comes out as S****horpe

Well, it was done by Doctor Q. Maybe not enough *sterisk*.

Sydney, am I right? I spent some time in Newtown way back. Those were the days...

 

[dogbone]

Well, it was done by Doctor Q. Maybe not enough *sterisk*.

Sydney, am I right? I spent some time in Newtown way back. Those were the days...

If you used the coordinates on my location field you're about 60 miles out. But yes, they *were* the days, the world famous RAT parties of the 80's and all that, which started the whole worldwide rave thing.

 

[Doctor Q]

PS Just saw 'Edited for language'. Sorry, I could have sworn I put asterisks in. But how come the word 'bollocks' is freely acceptable in numerous posts but not s**t?

The list of words deemed inappropriate (which is updated from time to time) is one of those "community standards" issues for which there is no precise method of determination. We try to keep the site family-friendly for ages 13 and up, with admittedly mixed success.

As for asterisks, the rules do not permit bypassing the profanity filter by replacing selected letters with asterisks or similar-looking letters. If "foobar" was on the list, you would not be allowed to say foobar, f00bar, f**bar, foob@r, and so on. The software would catch only the first form automatically, so the moderators would have to clean up posts manually if the other forms were used, assuming the posts were noticed or reported. We would probably permit a one-letter version, e.g., f***** for foobar.

Sorry that I'm off-topic here, but it was a legitimate question deserving an answer.

 

[dogbone]

FFS,

Sorry I couldn't resist.

This is about the time where someone comes into the thread and posts a link to that very naughtily named city in Deutchland.

 

[MrSmith]

The list of words deemed inappropriate (which is updated from time to time) is one of those "community standards" issues for which there is no precise method of determination. We try to keep the site family-friendly for ages 13 and up, with admittedly mixed success.

As for asterisks, the rules do not permit bypassing the profanity filter by replacing selected letters with asterisks or similar-looking letters. If "foobar" was on the list, you would not be allowed to say foobar, f00bar, f**bar, foob@r, and so on. The software would catch only the first form automatically, so the moderators would have to clean up posts manually if the other forms were used, assuming the posts were noticed or reported. We would probably permit a one-letter version, e.g., f***** for foobar.

Sorry that I'm off-topic here, but it was a legitimate question deserving an answer.

I see, thanks. But this editing seems to be very regional (American?) The word 'bo**ocks' I wrote above (to prove a point) is very unacceptable in the UK.

FFS,

Sorry I couldn't resist.

This is about the time where someone comes into the thread and posts a link to that very naughtily named city in Deutchland.

Sorry, you'll have to spell it out.

 

[dpaanlka]

Hey some of us worked really hard on our animated 'tars.

 

[IJ Reilly]

**** ***** ***?
****!!

 

[xsedrinam]

**** ***** ***?
****!!

Took the words right out of my head, except for the exclamation points.

 

[SilentPanda]

As long as SilentPanda keeps his avatar the way it is I don't care whether or not any others are animated.

Gotta say I love the rolling panda avatar.

Every time an animated tar thread comes up I feel bad for having one because I don't really care about my tar that much. But then the community demands it stays! Sorry anti-animated tar community!

PS Just saw 'Edited for language'. Sorry, I could have sworn I put asterisks in. But how come the word 'bollocks' is freely acceptable in numerous posts but not s**t?

Because bollocks is a fake swear word made up by the British so they can be different.

 

[Blue Velvet]

But then the community demands it stays! Sorry anti-animated tar community!

Yours is one of the few I like. It's award-winning, remember? And probably because it's not too colourful and is less distracting. Or that it's very cute.

 

[mattscott306]

Why do I feel dirty when reading this thread?

 

[iBlue]

The iBlue 'tars™

Oh yes, the stir that was this cheeky little avatar:

and its more innocent follower:

The cheekier one got reported ( ) but the previous just ran its course and I took it down. I've had a couple others that seemed to turn heads but as always "for all the right reasons". What can I say? I like my saucy avatars sometimes.

My favourite is the complaint about being busted for fooling around at work because of these avatars. Poor little avatar scapegoats... hardly the real problem, eh?

 

[dogbone]

Oh yes, the stir that was this cheeky little avatar: ...

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Edit: er... which was the 'cheekier' one, or was that a pun?

Edit Edit: OK I found an acceptable source for the unacceptable city in Germany.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F******,_Austria

to see the site though you'll need to guess the missing letters (lower case)

 

[MrSmith]

Surprisingly, I've never heard of that place. Sure made my evening

 

[iBlue]

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Edit: er... which was the 'cheekier' one, or was that a pun?

...

I'm sure you can guess which one has more cheek. I'm proud of those, I made 'em myself from a music vid "destination calabria"

 

[dogbone]

Surprisingly, I've never heard of that place. Sure made my evening

I saw a similar photo somewhere in the Town that had a pictogram of children and under the pictogram on the same pole was the name of the City.

I was going to post a warning for the link but I realised that you'd have to fill in the missing bit anyway. Imagine someone complaining they went to the link and were offended. Reminds me of the joke about the old lady who complained to the police about the man who regularly bathed naked in the opposite flat. When the police arrive they said it was too far to see. "you'll need these binoculars" boom boom