I see your point but do you see mine? Like I said think as a teacher not as a person. Personally I don't really care if I see a cuss word or not. I would like to be able to get rid of them, but if I cant it's not going to make me stop coming to slashdot.
But let's face it... people as a whole are stupid. No offense to anyone here, but as a whole people are stupid. We had a school have to rewrite their entire marketing campaign because they said that they could help students prepare for a career and the people felt it was the parents who should choose a child's career not a school. It was something that would help the kids in their career but the people as a whole are stupid and don't want it.
So what I am saying is I know that an * or a beep in a cuss word is kinda senseless, you know that it is senseless, but the people as a whole (perhaps a better word is the community) doesn't see it that way. They find it as being an appropriate alternative. OF course if they always got their way we wouldn't know what its like to touch, talk with, kiss, or interact with the opposite sex, we wouldn't have a clue what sex was, we'd think babies came from storks, we'd never be in a fight in our life, and the worst word from our mouth would be "Golly!". heh
Actually that sounds like a very good idea to me. (ironic, but good) It allows not only curse words to be filtered but objectionable words and also users in general that do annoying things like type MEEPT alot and generally dont have anything worth the bandwith to contribute. (sorry meept, but you're a perfect example) Now I know that there is the case (10%) where someone does annoying things, or curses, etc but still has useful information in the message but nothing is perfect. I'd rather see no cuss words and lose about 1% of relevant useful comments, than have 5-10% of what I spend the time downloading be useless information. I can get plenty of that elsewhere on the net. heh
It's not a matter of if you know that f*ck is fuck (if you read what I said you'd see I already covered that it would have the same effect) its just a matter of how people percieve it. Its about as effective as beeping over a letter in a cuss word on a movie. You know the guy said fuck, it has the same effect, but at least the kids (and everyone else) didnt have to hear the whole word fuck. Think like a teacher/principal not like a person. heh
I think the new set up with Slashdot is wonderful. This is not a complaint in any way, just a suggestion. You've offered filters for topics, for AC's, for authors, etc. but one filter that I think would be a great addition is a filter that removes any stories or comments that contain curse words in it. I know everyone has his or her own interpretation of curse words, so maybe a two level deal. One that takes out just the major words (b*tch, *ss, f*ck, etc.) and one that is stricter (damn, hell, etc). This would help clean up slashdot and make it a more....informative web site.
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But let's face it... people as a whole are stupid. No offense to anyone here, but as a whole people are stupid. We had a school have to rewrite their entire marketing campaign because they said that they could help students prepare for a career and the people felt it was the parents who should choose a child's career not a school. It was something that would help the kids in their career but the people as a whole are stupid and don't want it.
So what I am saying is I know that an * or a beep in a cuss word is kinda senseless, you know that it is senseless, but the people as a whole (perhaps a better word is the community) doesn't see it that way. They find it as being an appropriate alternative. OF course if they always got their way we wouldn't know what its like to touch, talk with, kiss, or interact with the opposite sex, we wouldn't have a clue what sex was, we'd think babies came from storks, we'd never be in a fight in our life, and the worst word from our mouth would be "Golly!". heh
Actually that sounds like a very good idea to me. (ironic, but good) It allows not only curse words to be filtered but objectionable words and also users in general that do annoying things like type MEEPT alot and generally dont have anything worth the bandwith to contribute. (sorry meept, but you're a perfect example) Now I know that there is the case (10%) where someone does annoying things, or curses, etc but still has useful information in the message but nothing is perfect. I'd rather see no cuss words and lose about 1% of relevant useful comments, than have 5-10% of what I spend the time downloading be useless information. I can get plenty of that elsewhere on the net. heh
It's not a matter of if you know that f*ck is fuck (if you read what I said you'd see I already covered that it would have the same effect) its just a matter of how people percieve it. Its about as effective as beeping over a letter in a cuss word on a movie. You know the guy said fuck, it has the same effect, but at least the kids (and everyone else) didnt have to hear the whole word fuck. Think like a teacher/principal not like a person. heh
I think the new set up with Slashdot is wonderful. This is not a complaint in any way, just a suggestion. You've offered filters for topics, for AC's, for authors, etc. but one filter that I think would be a great addition is a filter that removes any stories or comments that contain curse words in it. I know everyone has his or her own interpretation of curse words, so maybe a two level deal. One that takes out just the major words (b*tch, *ss, f*ck, etc.) and one that is stricter (damn, hell, etc). This would help clean up slashdot and make it a more....informative web site.