So let me get this straight (the swearing thing)

We here at Brooklyinian are mature enough to handle discussions about murders, shootings, gang violence, rape and other horrible things happening in the world today. But if we were to see the occasional curse word, our lily livered sensibilities wouldn't be able to handle the shock? Suffering Succotash, that would make Vonnegut proud.

^ Those threads required round-the-clock moderating in public and private (but with a lot of slack), by the way...they didn't just end up that way by themselves.

Yeah, it's just an experiment.

Some people don't give a fuck, or think this blows. Others get a chuckle when they seem someone acting like an ass get their come-uppance.

But in the case of those with little else to say or little other vocabulary than an extremely short list of certain expressions to go on the attack, they can suck my dick and lighten up a little bit. 8-[

But it is just a temporary experiment. Some folks really don't like it, and if that's the general sentiment then it may end as just that: a temporary experiment.

But this thread was a good idea, so folks should feel free to weigh in here.

I just added a poll to be quasi-scientific, so have at it.

I can post the list, if people want. That way you can see how few there are.

What is this list you speak of? Banned words and their substitutes? (experiment): if I write fuck, will it show up as it did in your post? Not that I'm particularly fond of the word as an insult: I've always seen a fuck as a good thing!

Well that settles that experiment. Now I'm really confused.

Yeah, to explain further, it's just an automatic word replacement filter.

There is a limited list of words that are set to be replaced by specific other expressions. All other words are wide open.

I only set it for a few words that some use as deliberate insults or fightin' words, or words that some feel the need to spam into unrelated posts for their own, creepy-adolescent-nephew-with-a-shoe-mirror-like giggles.

I can provide the short list of affected words if you'd like.

I love lists! Let's see it.

Okay, one sec.

Ahhh, but what are the replacements? I need to be able to translate my more uncivil neighbors.

fuck off, you fucking asshole. i don't give a shit whose cunt you deposited your boner jiz in. you're a jackass fucker and always will be. fuck you and your bullshit.

hee hee! me likey.

ETA: suck my dick

sweet tea wrote: (have a nice flight), you (facocta) (jabroni). i don't give a (sufferin' succotash) whose (cunning runt) you deposited your (bunny) (jibberjabber) in. you're a (jabroni) (mofongo) and always will be. (have a nice flight) and your (brunch anyone?).

hee hee! me likey.

When do we get the magnet poetry version?

good FUCKIN post & question..

inquiring minds wanna know !

ahahahahah

Oh, I forgot the very last one, so I updated my post above ^^^^

Also, if it would be made less annoying to some by removing some of those words from the list, which words would you remove?

sh_t ?What else?

although brunch anyone? is funny, i'd remove that one.

partly because it fouls up the meter of my sig line, i admit.

fucking also seems too useful to lose.

I like "focacta", but I would have spelled it "fakakta". Not sure which is right

and i would have spelled it with an initial V.

but we can all agree on f*cking, amirite?

So people would prefer to remove the filter from the following then, right?

sh_t , bullsh_t
f_cking (and not keep facocta / fakakta / vakakta / verkakte or whatever)

Any other thoughts?

Again, here's the list:

I go balls out, or don't bother at all

Any Scottish posters might want to remove c*nt, that being slang for "person" over there

anybody else have "shut your fucking face, uncle fucker" caught in your head?

I don't understand this thread at all. What is going on?

quiddity, see explanation posted above:

click here to jump up there

Urban Dictionary says "fakakta", but if you look at definition #3, there is a fair argument that it could be spelled with a "v"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fakakta

wait, you want to block bullshit? I call bullshit!

Shove it up your asshole! CUNT! Jizz.. fuck you
Ahhh .. but Jeffrey you missed "blow me"

if anything this thread is funny as all suck my dick

F ucking sh it this is so fu cking stupid you a real set of c unts for this and you didn't even censor the worst word one that i do not say but this is sheer and utter f uckry and I can still say all of it so go suck a goat c ock and choke on the semen LOL have a nice flight HAHAHA ;-)

PS ain't nobody could curse like a West Indian LOLOLOLOL!!!

And please don't mess with "eat a hot bowl of dicks" a la Ice-T

http://gawker.com/5514584/ice+t-to-aimee-mann-eat-a-hot-bowl-of-dicks

When I was engaged I was on The Knot a lot and they don't allow cursing at all (like you can't post the entire post at all - no word replacements) and so people just type like idiots
f/ck f_ck f*ck f**k ffuc fuk fck fck
etc.

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