I cuss like a sailor, myself. Remember that this is a public forum, and kids can, and probably do, come here. Kids play this game, too.
It's a simple courtesy to restrain your vocabulary when typing things that anyone can read, and that some parents may complain about. Paizo would appreciate it.
The bleeped profanities are being censored by the profanity filter.
There is a filter for the entire messageboard and the guys at paizo get grumpy when people try to 'work around' the filter.
I would say, if it appropriate for you pbp use the word. Most of your players will know what you are saying despite the filter. However if you look at the FAQ:
The most important rule: Don't be a jerk. We want our messageboards to be a fun and friendly place.
Users who participate in our message boards agree to not: post any content that infringes and/or violates any patent, trademark, copyright, or other proprietary right of any third party; use profanity or any type of vulgar speech; make any bigoted, hateful or racially offensive statements; defame, abuse, stalk, harass or threaten others; advocate illegal activity or discuss illegal activities with the intent to commit them.
As long as you accept that your profanity will be censored they do not seem to mind letting it fly, but it is against the general rules.
I have used profanities (when appropriate*) in my pbp and I have never had a moderator ask me to use different language. (Yet... and hopefully that doesn't change with this post. :) )
It is a matter of ensuring that you are not offending your players, since they are the ones most likely to report you.
*Like in CoT when the module writer includes a *foul-mouthed* eriynes
I believe that putting in the occasional word is acceptable as long as one can deal with the censor, but typing out paragraphs of hot(or not so hot) sex and swearing gets a certain alchemy golem grumpy and posts deleted, so moderate before being moderated. :)
Intentionally bypassing the censor filter will definitely get our attention.
Get a better censor filter?
How about trying to use mild alternatives, like arse?
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You could use creative language that is not "profanity." Sit down with a Thesaurus and come up with some really fun stuff. This serves a two-fold purpose:
1: Your players get the idea that they ARE being cursed out/at
2: The younger readers on the boards get to go look up new and interesting vulgarities and are thus educated!
If you do a search for "Shakespeare insults" you'll find loads of material. Here's a few to inspire you:
"You mammering milk-livered coxcomb!"
"Run back to your gorbellied canker-blossom, you knotty-pated pignut!"
"She was a vain rump-fed popinjay! We had a whirl and I sent the whey-faced strumpet away!"
"This is a fusty fine predicament you've got me into, you hedge-pig"
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
-Aaron
Wouldn't that go back to the whole "intentional bypass" and such?
Wouldn't that go back to the whole "intentional bypass" and such?
Maybe? I'm not sure. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else considers my "insults" to be offensive enough for banning. I'm certainly not trying to intentionally bypass the profanity filter, but rather use language that conveys the meaning (the character is cursing you out or insulting you) without using language that is acutally offensive.
-Aaron
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Intentionally bypassing the censor filter would be using "1337" speak, creative misspellings, or foreign-language versions of swear words, not finding creative swears, such as Shakespearean insult.
Respelling the F word in a way the filter missed is bad, replacing the F word with "Betwist thine anatomy, and make rut with thyself!" would be fine.
Intentionally bypassing the censor filter would be using "1337" speak, creative misspellings, or foreign-language versions of swear words
Also, you can switch to the foreign-language keyboard setting and spell out the swear ford in English using foreign letters. It'd look exactly the same and filter wouldn't get it.
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Intentionally bypassing the censor filter would be using "1337" speak, creative misspellings, or foreign-language versions of swear wordsAlso, you can switch to the foreign-language keyboard setting and spell out the swear ford in English using foreign letters. It'd look exactly the same and filter wouldn't get it.
Bravo, you just found out why there's nothing as "better profanity filter". Just like digital rights management, people will *always* find a way around.
I tend to try to find a way around when someone is forcing me to the things their way. That's why I'd turn it off (same with DRM). Like children/young people with access to Internet never heard of swear words before.
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I tend to try to find a way around when someone is forcing me to the things their way. That's why I'd turn it off (same with DRM). Like children/young people with access to Internet never heard of swear words before.
Indeed, it's not that hard to find a way around most profanity filters.
But when you're posting on someone else's forum, you're in their house, and it's basic courtesy to obey their rules.
Intentionally bypassing filters when the forum owners have specified that they want the language on their forums kept fairly clean is like smoking in the house of someone who's a nonsmoker and has told you that they don't want secondhand smoke in their home, or tramping around the house in shoes when the owners have told you it's a no-shoes house.
I personally feel that it's showing a lot of disrespect for your hosts.
But when you're posting on someone else's forum, you're in their house, and it's basic courtesy to obey their rules.
I agree. But I would have obeyed those rules even if you just asked. And I do obey them, that's why I feel it isn't necessary for censors to exist.
There's a difference between obeying the rules and being forced to obey the rules. I feel that latter is rude. I ask people not to smoke in my house, I don't take away their cigarettes.
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Sadly, some people will see the lack of a filter on a web forum as a tacit approval to use the words, and even if they are asked not to, will say things like, "if you really wanted me not to, you would have put in a filter. You're just being a jerk, or you're too lazy to add a filter, or too stupid"
You and I are reasonable people, but not everyone is...
Some good alternatives I've seen in commercials/media.
You lintlicker!
You son of a motherless goat.
Fargin' iceholes.
Stinkin' bastages.
Dirty corcksucker.(Bonus points for knowing the reference for the last three)
Johnny Dangerously!
I remember laughing my arse off when I first saw that film."My mother slapped me once. Once."
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In general, I don't recommend reading the Eragon series of books.
However, there are a few run-on sentences from Brisingr that might be of interest to the thread.
In a spoiler tag for being "obscenely impressive":
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Ding!
My wife has to act in a play and her character has Tourette's; she's thinking of changing some of her curse ticks into something sillier along those lines. I imagine it'll be quite amusing.
Your wife might find this blog useful: Touretteshero
Mother's milk in a cup!