Someone to contact about swear filters?

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greiswig

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This was laughable for awhile, but it really is ridiculous to not be able to read content that has been ****ed up by the swear filter. Did Queen Victoria come back from the dead and sign up?

Is there an admin, organization, or someone we should be reaching out to to ask for a more reasonable filter? It renders content unreadable.
 

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Me...I'm always tweaking it. Can you so me a favor and pm me ones you feel that need to be removed. Of course they are censored so put spaces in between the letters.
 

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I can handle it. I have my big boy pants on. After all I bought a Land Rover and take it off-road. How crazy is that.

Swearing is part and parcel with Land Rover ownership. In fact, one who thinks he is a competent swearer becomes a true artiste' after a few years with the green oval.
 
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Me...I'm always tweaking it. Can you so me a favor and pm me ones you feel that need to be removed. Of course they are censored so put spaces in between the letters.
I’d be happy to, but that requires us maintaining a list that is often a guess as to what the original word was. I’m with others here: is it truly necessary? I never noticed a lot of swearing before, although I saw a lot of self-censoring as people subbed asterisks in for part of the words.

Could I respectfully suggest that we either
1. go back to the honor system, and ask people to watch themselves? or
2. give a short list of objectionable words to the algorithm and expand it out, rather than setting it high and trying to narrow it down so we can use CREW with an S in front of it for vehicles that use that fastener or bolt-tightening verb a lot? or
3. get a list of items that have been censored in the past month, with frequencies, and look that list over for obvious things that aren't likely swear words and remove them from the censor algorithm?

PS - thank you for administrating this forum!!
 
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Swearing is part and parcel with Land Rover ownership. In fact, one who thinks he is a competent swearer becomes a true artiste' after a few years with the green oval.

I got so mad trying to break loose my calipers last week I had to invent new swear words.
 

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I think we need an off-topic filter more than we need a swear filter. :laugh:
 

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