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FOREST!!
There ive said it.... sorry if youre offended by me calling you that but i needed to say it... Anyone have the feintest clue why this word would be deemed innapropriate and offensive in sky pokers chat bar?
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posts like yours should be xxxxxxx deleted.
I am guessing that it may have been taken as a reference to Forest Gump, in which case it may have been meant in a derogatory way. Having said that I am called far worse on a frequent basis, not least when I am talking to myself.
If it led to a warning or chat ban then that's a bit harsh IMO.
I stand, well sit, corrected.
Lots of swear words are banned and derivations of those words probably are too. I've seen some inventive ways of getting your point across in chat box though, which I always have some respect for.
If you can get away with incorrect spelling then that panders to the illiterate, abusive players and I shall have to adapt my chat box abuse accordingly!
I'm also guessing that there are other even dafter things that are banned.
L M F AO got blocked when I tried to say GG to him/her in the DTD on Monday. It just came up 'GG ****' and I probably just came across as an angry loser as a result
edit: Can't use that 5 letter acronym on forums either. Daft.
(i recall that) what amplifies the whole thing is that the censorship mechanism inserts 4 asterisks no matter how many characters were in the typed word.
this makes the intended word look like the most offensive possible, when it may well have been the word forest.
e.g. do bears **** in the ****
Well by that definition Mick, you wouldn’t be able to talk about the Florida Ornithological Society without typing the whole thing, so that can’t be right.
on that point, i recall seeing the banner at the london olympics in support of the world taekwondo federation. simply stating, "WTF"
Is that all you think about? :-)
I do wonder about it from time to time, but it's just one of those anachronisms, something that faintly amuses me rather than annoys me.
I did ask the Office about it once, & they looked at me a bit gone out.
When I used to do the daily Updates from the WSOP (FCHD, God bless him, does most of them for us now) & C & P a list of overnight chip counts, it was a bit of a nightmare, as the profanity filter gets really tetchy, & blocks out loads of seemingly innocent names, it can take ages to get sort that out.