***Warning, Rant Response Ahead***
@Infinitus I apologize for using my every day language to express the extreme level of emotion I would have if I could do something such as that and explain how awesome I thought it would be.
Personally I'm not offended at all, but your everyday language does not fit in everywhere. This is one of those "everywhere" places.
I have been on plenty of forums before and know how they work.
Great "O All Knowing Master of Forums", but it really doesn't look like you do, otherwise there would be no need to write this. (Can ya sense the sarcasm?)
Any forum I have been on either frowns upon using bad language and in turn filters it to block it, or they don't care and don't filter it and you can say what you want.
This Forum is not
any other forum, it is what it is, which is LPF, and it is your responsibility to adjust to
it not the other way around. For example if someone were to say I know a lot of guys like you and they are dumb@$$E$, therefore you must be a dumb@$$... wouldn't you be annoyed?
How am I supposed to know whether or not this forum has a word filter?
Maybe the question you should ask is why
YOU need to know about a language filter in the first place? For example I don't need to know about all security measures at airports, because I don't take anything dangerous with me.
I typed my feelings thinking if it's not allowed, it will be censored and if not then it is allowed.
So if you do something wrong, it is only wrong if it is not permitted to occur, and conversely you imply that if something is permitted to occur, it is therefore no longer wrong but right?
Not only that, but putting characters in your word to by pass filters on most forums to still show your word or block one letter so people still know what you said, is usually a bannable offense.
You remember the "at least" words I used. It's preferred that you don't use profanity at all... again personally I could care less, but this is a public forum. Fact is, there is more freedom here, at the same time that means greater responsibility.
So excuse me for not putting a * in my word or using other characters to type it and assuming if it wasn't allowed then it would be locked.
LOL, you're excused. Feel better now?
That being said I looked in the welcome section and the rules and stickies section and did not see anything about "cursing is not allowed".
Really? See, I know there is a thread on etiquette in the welcome section, that touches upon similar issues
it's even a sticky!
http://laserpointerforums.com/f37/something-say-about-etiquette-55673.html
In the rules section there aren't that many threads, and fairly little traffic, so one wonders, how you, the master of all forums managed to miss this:
http://laserpointerforums.com/f36/unacceptable-language-59669.html
I'm not trying to be a d-...d**k
You're
not trying? Really? because your rant says otherwise.
but I mean, if it's frowned upon it should be censored like most forums and if it's allowed then it's allowed no?
No it is not. This forum offers a lot of freedom, but that means you also have a responsibility not to abuse that freedom.
If that doesn't work, there are plenty of places that censor language which may be more appropriate for you.
Maybe next time just make the
small change that's politely asked of you, and should be common sense in the first place?
p)
