An Innocent Word-Caught in the Swear Filter

[Captain Pike]

I think it's great that this site would make itself available to young readers. When I read the post from administration all how certain words would be filtered out for this reason, I was delighted.

One of the things I love about this place is that I've never seen a robot come in here and try to look me up with hot college girls in my town.

However, I was surprised to see this automated edit in a blog entry of my harmless (and very melancholically effective, ha ha) description of the driver's realm of an old Cadillac:http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blogs/viewblog.php?entry=754&userid=26383

The inside of the hearse lit up like the **** pit of a military aircraft.

I mean, come on, this definitely detracts from the much-needed imagery intended. Being an old software engineer, it seems like this kind of thing be easy to avoid. On the other hand, I may not be aware of the tenacity of some of the would-be hackers of vulgarity.

[motherhubbard]

**** pit certainly changes the imagery. My 12 year old gets on here and I’m glad the error is on the side of caution.

[Reepicheep]

Cockpit is one word. See it works.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

My 12 year old gets on here and I’m glad the error is on the side of caution.So does my 11 year old, and I agree: She is learning english at an astonishing rate, and I would prefer it to be somewhat proper english. ;) That said, a filter will never be 100% effective.

/Claes

[Captain Pike]

I'm so embarrassed. My excuse is I used speech recognition software to type. I know that cockpit is one word, but it didn't, and in my story I never proofread it! I'm glad to know the filters are working the way they should be.

[Stanislaw]

" I helped apple reck a nice beach" :D:thumbs_up

heh, sorry.

[Brigitte]

:lol: at Stan. Okay, so maybe I'm a bit liberal, but sorry to say, your children probably already know those words (at least in America they would). :p And anyhow, words affect the mood of a story, and I don't much like censoring. In any case, at least the problem was solved, but I'm still iffy about the censoring. *shrugs*

[crisaor]

I concur with all the points about the swear filter. However, there's not much to do about it, mainly because it's one of the rules, and because swear words might end up blocking the site for computers with internet language filters, thus lowering the hits the site gets and the benefits attached to such.

[Brigitte]

I concur with all the points about the swear filter. However, there's not much to do about it, mainly because it's one of the rules, and because swear words might end up blocking the site for computers with internet language filters, thus lowering the hits the site gets and the benefits attached to such.

All I have to say is, "That's true." Wow, I say that so much in real life. ^_^ The more hits the better, but also... more little kiddies asking for homework help last minute. :flare: