Thursday, November 10, 2005

Censor Bypassing

Since this site is my soapbox I'm going to complain! Some of you might be thinking "OMFG, that's all you freakin' do is complain about everything!" I say " Yes, of course! I do it because it's funny, to me. What else are we going to talk about? I point out things that don't quite make sense or don't go as I feel they should and this is interpreted as complaining. All I'm saying is I don't like something in some fashion. Jesus, if I just convey the happenings of a typical day it would be interpreted as complaining." Anyway, on to my complaint.
GameFAQs. I love the site.
Here is it's rule for Censor Bypassing:
# Censor Bypassing

The GameFAQs message boards are programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context, and these words are not allowed to be posted. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed.
For example, if "gris" is a banned word:

* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word

Here is my post which was deleted:
"... So?
I don't see the problem. Seven Soldiers will/is a great stand-alone story. Does it matter if the characters are used AFTER Seven Soldiers is finished? Does that somehow affect the Seven Soldiers story?
What of the people that like the new characters and want to see more of them? Oh! Now they can by read '52'! They'll be happy.
I thought the bad news was going to be that Seven Soldiers has been canceled. Which it has NOT been!
Besides, G. Morrison is going to be one of the 'architects' of the Post IC DCU. So, he's going to use some of the characters he's tweaked.
I really don't see why you're so against IC, blackmore. But you like that House of M sh... crap.
It just seems like you're more than just 'not interested' in IC. It seems like you're personally offended by it and it's some kind of sacralidge.
I'm sorry, I got of on kind of a rant. That was all my opinion and everyone else can certainly have theirs. No offense to blackmore, I'm just really kind of puzzled, is all."

I contested the moderation, here is my contest statment:
"I'm assuming that this pertains to my use of "sh...". If this is indeed the case; the "..." was not meant to substitute for the actual letters in the word in question, instead they were to signify a pause, which was then followed by the word "crap". It was intended for humor purposes with the subtext that I realized that it was an objectionable word so I substituted it with a more acceptable one (all as if I were really speaking instead of typing). I apologize if this was not clear. But I do not feel that I has violated the TOS because the word in question was not meant to be represented."

Here is a response from a moderator:
"Two letters of a banned word appear. That's a bypass."

I've let the matter go, but it's a shame that my post was deleted because of two letters. What if I was going to say "shenanigans"? I guess that'll teach me from trying to be funny. And people wonder why I'm quite.
And yes. I know it's just the internet. Point taken. Which makes me question why the moderator bothered to read the whole post to find it, it is kind of in the middle of a lot of stuff.

What do you all think?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think that moderator is a di...


And yes, this time it is what you think it is. (Synonymous with Penis)


Haha! I said Penis!

Jeni

11:39 AM  

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