Raising the Bar a Little
If you’ve tried to post a comment this morning and it hasn’t shown up, chances are you used one of the naughty keywords that our publishing system is now on the lookout for. We’re not averse to the occasional four-letter word used at the right time in the right way, but when they are used…
If you’ve tried to post a comment this morning and it hasn’t shown up, chances are you used one of the naughty keywords that our publishing system is now on the lookout for. We’re not averse to the occasional four-letter word used at the right time in the right way, but when they are used to insult individuals or entire groups of people, it’s not so cool. We’ve also blocked the use of the “tinyurl” links, since one rogue member of the community has been peppering comment threads with disguised links to inappropriate photos. We’ll see how this works for the next few days. If you have an idea that you can’t figure out how to express without offensive language, chances are it isn’t worth expressing.
“tzou hai” in cantonese 1:56…and if i said that in English it’d definetely get deleted. Funny how this kind of talk is now precisely “on topic” in this thread!!!
I should pepper the thread with vulgar comments about how prices won’t go down much, where the buyers are coming from and a currency lesson for that bozo from yesterday!!!
That said, it seems we’ve gotten rid of The What. Unless today is his psychoanalysis appointment.
Thanks Brownstoner! Keep up the good work.
-Signed a not-bitter renter!
Hey, Brownstoner, be kind enough to allow Preview TinyURL links (which let you verify the URL before proceeding). I don’t know how to post one without blocking my comment, but check out their website…
A very good idea.
i for one intend to go the battlestar galactica route and use “frak” for all my obscenity needs.
oh, frak yes.
Stop complaining. I can’t log onto a decent porn site at work, it gets filtered. There is so much trash on this site at times that Mr. B should start charging for waste disposal. Even the critics love this site. Blogs are the soap box of the 1800’s. Everyone has a voice without a face. How many of you are so honest about your thoughts with your own partners? You censor what you say to them. Get used to it. As for the f word that is a noun, verb, adjective and every other part of speech — it’s so overplayed it has really lost any meaning anyway.
11:59
I posted a joke in this thread, as well containing no offensive language.
No post.
Aaaah censorship. Go America!
i posted a comment on the dobro thread with zero profanity. it listed stores i thought would be nice in downtown and it was not published.
any reason why?
Ysabelle,
My free speech is in no way curtailed by Mr. B today. I am free to say or write what I want and send it where I want. If I send it to Mr. B, Mr. B has no more obligation to publish what I send to his website than the New York Times has to publish every letter to the editor it receives, or a museum must hang on its wall every piece of artwork it receives. Mr. B is the publisher and editor of this website. He violates no one’s rights when he decides what to publish or edit.