The Rules section wrote:POSTING RULES
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DO watch your language. No swear words, profanity or offensive language allowed.
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I would hate it if this wonderful forum turned into my inbox.
Just thought of this right after I posted, but when a newbie is signing up they should have to go through the rules so they are aware of searching for topics. That's the most annoying thing. I don't know if this is up to you or the forum makers (phpBB2, right?)
Andrew wrote:I see.
It's true, we are somewhat leniant on the rule regarding profanity. This was the case in the old forum as well - unless it was directed at someone or used excessively, it wasn't considered a huge problem.
However, if everyone feels that that rule should be more strictly enforced or perhaps amended, then I have no problem accomodating that. That's one part of Discus that was better than phpBB - there was an option to automatically censor words on the banned/profanity list with red dots, or prevent the user from posting the message until they removed the offending words.
There's an option in phpBB to automatically replace banned words with less offensive language. It means you xan automatically replace words with a less harsh expletive such as "damn" or with asterisks.
I guess it needs to be discussed, if the use of profanity is/should be a serious guideline violation (for example, posting in the wrong forum and duplicate messages in multiple forums are also against the rules, but not considered serious violations).
In any event, I have no problem enforcing the rules as per the wishes of the community.
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