Yes, I’m aware I can curse on the internet - it’s not my first day here. I use the exact words I mean to use, and I’m more a fan of the precision F-strike than indiscriminately carpet-bombing the place with “fucks”. Stop word-policing me (and others).
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Yeah, this went over about as well as expected. And the irony and hypocrisy of the free speech absolutists coming out of the woodwork to tell us all what we can and can’t say is not lost on me.
If you want to avoid profanity, then simply don’t use it at all rather than doing whatever this is. This is just tacky.
People can obviously say whatever they want, but my opinion is that substituting curse words makes people sound juvenile and the intent is still the same as the original word. You are still making people do a curse conversion in their heads. So why even bother? Kind of like people who won’t say goddamnit, but they’ll say gawldamnit or something like that. Do you think you’re fucking tricking god? There are plenty of other words that can be used for emphasis.
OK but holy forking shirtballs was contextually hilarious and I will always respect a good place reference.
holy forking shirt-balls! you’re right!
I’ve posted about this before and met the same results. People are very convinced that the danger of the internet becoming more ad friendly is more important that letting people say what they wanna say. In a way I do get it, but it’s annoying not being able to do what you wanna do.
I don’t care either way, it’s all part of online forums. People say something, others agree or disagree.
What I really dislike are Youtube channels having to censor themselves while reading court documents and such, in fear of getting their channel striked or demonetised.
Lots of people don’t like to swear in person, or will follow it with something like ‘oops, did I say that out loud’.
I’ve never understood being upset when people self-censor online too. How does someone else not swearing effect you?
F*ck off
(You can’t get upset, I didn’t “swear”)
I don’t care about people “not swearing”.
Writing f*ck is swearing, just extra stupid.
The reason behind self censoring is what people are responding to, and how people do it shows the cause.
The most common reason for people to self censor by hiding a letter or two is to get past world filters imposed by multibillion dollar industries. Chat in games, social media platforms, and other places have draconian rules that people work around and thn drag those habits to other places where it isn’t necessary to remind everyone that billion dollar companies are ruining the internet. It used to be kind of funny when it was one or two companies addressing actual toxic behavior, but not people are censoring terms like rape when discussing it as a social problem that needs to be addressed.
If someone is thinking “What a fucking moron.” there are many ways to self censor.
“What a moron.” Self censoring by not using the word at all is perfectly fine.
“What a f*cking moron.” looks like someone is trying to say something hut is scared of a filter from the word police.
“Trmp is a fcking moron.” is like someone whispering about someone because they are afraid of being heard. Yes, I’ve started to see names getting the same treatment because of whatever stupid reason.
Sure, they can do whatever they want but I’m going to judge them for it.
It doesn’t affect me. That being said “policing” is a hyperbole. Obviously no one is forcing people to swear, they are just giving them shit when they censor themselves. Those people can still choose to censor themselves even when someone tells them it’s ok to swear.
It’s no more policing than OP ‘policing’ people to not ‘police’ him.
People have opinions. You can’t request others to not have their opinions if you’re going to share yours.
People have opinions. You can’t request others to not have their opinions if you’re going to share yours.
Yes and no… Everyone has an opinion, but it’s not always appropriate to share those opinions, especially if you’re changing the topic at hand to do so.
If we’re discussing ‘some topic’™ and I swear, but censor a couple letters; that would not be the time to change gear and discuss my personal use of censoring. You could have a separate discussion about it at a different time, as we are doing now; but it’s not really appropriate to stop the previous discussion about ‘some topic’ to talk about my censoring instead. That comes off as avoiding the subject imo.
Forking shirtballs, people need to listen to you
I too want to stop people placing arbitrary rules on my behaviour in public forums by imposing arbitrary rules on how to achieve my goals.
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You have probably confused a lot of programmers 🤣🤣
Hi can I f–k your r*po?
What did you just say you git?
Before I zoomed to read the thumbnail properly, I was indeed confused.
As soon as some does it, every comment’s like a three year old yelling, “You don’t like curse words. Here’s all the curse words I know!”
I assure you, I can curse better than a three year old.
Gotta keep the average up!
the only thing more annoying than someone self-censoring are the billion people telling them to stop self-censoring
like we get it, we don’t need 20000 replies saying the same thing!!!
What the fresh frelling hesmana is this?
My personal go-to is "f*ck’'.
I used to be all about “fsck” but after watching The Good Place I switched it up to “fork” lol.
Johnny Dangerously
Ok yea I’m sometimes guilty of this, but in a more joking kinda way usually
Except when you’re posting someone else’s content that the creator clearly intended to have a cussword, e.g. a comic, and either you or where you got it from censored it for “the algorithm”. That shit is annoying AF
