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It was always against forum rules, though it was policed inconsistently (based on context, I suspect) - sometimes posts were deleted with that given as the reason. Other times it was just a warning.
There’s a few clearly lighthearted posts beneath the one you found that have been left, for example.
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For science!
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OK, let's give it a shot:
Kurwa.
:D
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Just to make it clear, is it now policy that ANY posts with profanity, even those caught by the filter, will be removed? Or that it always was and was not enforced before recent events?
Good question. Because moderator's comments* like "please don't try to get around the profanity filter" imply that the profanity filter is the safe net that auto-moderates posts. Sometimes I have PbP characters that curse, and I've always assumed that was cool.
* And that's similar language to what's on the "Community Guidelines" page linked at the bottom of the page reads.
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If we are on the topic I'd like to express disappointment that profanity (with the exception of intentionally offensive slurs) is considered an issue on these forums at all, I mean... period. Sure, it might be helpful in regards to cutting back on people being insulting or rude to one another but... again, that is its own rule anyhow and even then folks often can get away with putting one another down around here if they're careful to be more patronizing than anything else which... if you ask me, is WAY f@!#ing worse.
Swearing has historically been discouraged out of classist societal norms that have taught most English speaking children that cursing is "low class" or only for the uneducated, considering it to be crass or disrespectful even when the cursing isn't directed at anyone at all, or in some cases is considered especially heinous when aimed at one or more gods.
Other nations do not have this kind of puritanical culture where they consider swearing to be immoral or disrespectful, or in the very least, they're nowhere NEAR as uptight about it. Swearing is actually often one of the most flexible, positive, and healthy ways of intelligently expressing frustration, anger, happiness, excitement, surprise, arousal, or pretty much ANY emotional state, something that is EXTREMELY difficult to express in text format online without emojis or complicated /flags that are inconsistent in terms of those who know how use them or in other cases can be, again, patronizing as hell.
Preventing swears on the platform, I feel, does far LESS good than harm, and research has come out time and time again showing that discouraging or censoring it actually decreases the ability for people to effectively communicate honestly or openly. It's like language gatekeeping, and not the good kind that's meant to stop people from being harassed but simply a way of showing disapproval for people who talk like... real human beings.
/rant
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Wait, you were seriously offended by my joke posts.
Somebody's let the moderating power get to their head, lighten up!
I already miss Sara Marie.
Director of Community
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Wait, you were seriously offended by my joke posts.
Somebody's let the moderating power get to their head, lighten up!
I already miss Sara Marie.
Whether I'm offended or not doesn't matter. It is more that, if one part of the community guideline isn't upheld, it makes it harder to uphold the others.
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Whether I'm offended or not doesn't matter. It is more that, if one part of the community guideline isn't upheld, it makes it harder to uphold the others.Wait, you were seriously offended by my joke posts.
Somebody's let the moderating power get to their head, lighten up!
I already miss Sara Marie.
So, it's like a fascist regime without the fun of the bag of turnips.
Okie dokie, Comrade, at least I know where you stand. Thank you.
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The really disappointing thing with the profanity filter and assumptions of 'masking' is that I have a character that speaks with a dialect (in part because he's lost teeth over battles) and it is a valid speech impediment that seems to lately been triggering the profanity filter.
When Agraic is talking, it's not any attempt to be profane (usually), and I really hope that the speech of characters talking isn't going to be policed when there are many other important things for Customer Service to work on.
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I love watching edgelords have theoretical debates from the safety of their privilege without having to consider other people. It's really the best part of the forums right now.
[EDIT: Not related to the post above, but to exactly the posts you think it relates to.]
In any company - or any kind of organization - different employees will interpret the same rules differently. That's been my experience, anyway.
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This isn't actually any change in policy. It's always been against the rules to try and circumvent the profanity filter and it's always been against the rules to use profanity - even if the profanity filter kicks in and edits your post.
The policy has always been loosely enforced based on context.
It's a situation where I personally think flexibility and potential inconsistency yields a better experience than some robotic algorithm ruthlessly applied.