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Subject: List of Naughty Words?

ASalina opened this issue on Dec 25, 2002 ยท 51 posts


ASalina posted Wed, 25 December 2002 at 12:43 AM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=300718&Start=1&Artist=Legume&ByArtist=Yes

I happened to wander over to Legume's Gallery out of curiosity, and noticed that one of the Powers That Be, namely PunkClown, stated that he had deleted a comment made by Mosca because it contained gratuitous swearing. He also said that he was debating pulling Legume's image for the same reason. (see link above) So now I'm wondering if there is a list of "swear" words that will get a person censored. Lord knows that I wouldn't want to have to re-write a comment because it contained an unacceptable word.

This also brings up the question of the differences between
Gallery comments and comments made in the forums. I had
spent a lot of time in the Photography forum ending maybe 6
months ago, where PunkClown was/is a regular poster, and
in that forum at least, a number of posters occasionally
used the 'F-word' without a hint of condemnation from
anyone.

Why is it apparently okay to use swear words in the forums
but not in the galleries? PunkClown's stated reason for
censoring Mosca in Legume's gallery was that young people
may well visit it (BTW, I learned almost all of my swear
words from young people, while I was a young person). Is
the reasoning that young people are less likely to read the
forums than they are to view the galleries? Why is that?

Thanks