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johnz1:

--- Quote from: LinusN on November 29, 2007, 03:15:26 AM ---****! I searched my computers for the powerhour source code, but it looks like I have lost it...

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Thanks for looking LinusN.  Oh, but watch what you say, and don't forget that "d*mn" is a swear word. lol

Llorean:
The forums are essentially "13 and up" (at least the intent for them is, you cannot legally register without parental consent if you're under 13 in the USA). With that in mind, "Damn" is acceptable. The cursing restriction lies both with context and with intent, anyway. It's almost more to define the "atmosphere" of discussion here.

AlexP:
Also bear in mind that different words are treated with different severity in different countries.  For instance, in the UK, damn is not really considered a swear word at all, and most people (I know) would not think twice about using it with kids.  I'm not saying therefore all words can be said to be acceptable (of course!), but some people just may not realise that in some places words such as damn may not be acceptable to some people.

Llorean:
I think that "damn" is borderline swear-word, but have deemed it acceptable so far. If people are getting offended by it, I can consider changing the stance on it, but so far I've really gone more by context than which specific word was used, and by my discretion as to how offensive I feel a certain statement is. I realize of course, that other people may be more or less offended than I. And I realize it may seem strange that I get irritated at masked words when the word masked is worse than "damn", but masking it doesn't change the intent or context within the sentence, and that's really where I think most of the offensiveness of any given statement comes from: the statement, rather than the specific word choice used to put it together.

That's also partially why there's no set word filter on the forums (or more specifically, there is one but it doesn't apply to swear words). In some cases nearly any word could be legitimately used (especially in technical discussion, for example and this is a ridiculous hypothetical, what if having a filename of a certain swear word caused a strange glitch, being able to simply say that word reduces the odds of confusion than having to say 'If I name it the f-word' which may not mean as much either to non-English native devs, or to people who take it literally and name their file "the...rd.mp3" to test).

So, while language use is a bit of a touchy issue, and it could be much more strictly handled, at this time I'm more in favour of asking people to "keep it clean, and try not to say things that the majority would find offensive" than put explicit guidelines into place, or an actual filter.

Mad Cow:
I wouldn't even consider damn to be a swear word, it has other, non-offensive meanings. But this forum has been going along fine for a long time, no reason the change anything.

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