Topic: censoring foul words. (Read 774 times)

LOL... I think I am offended by the way you posted on my thread. You deserve a signature ban.

I listened, although it is comic but it taught alot of lessons and it's about reality.

I now understand that using these words is so nice and natural to many Look how you arranged these words in a very f*cked way. I now see why many people don't want to be censored. People catch fun doing this, and I only pity the weak ones behind the screen.

Obviously there was a lot more to it. I followed up the thread until I was lost in words, feelings and some touches of betrayal, threats and lots more. One has to bow and exit the forum.

I know the protracted drama you're referring to, and there was a lot more to it than just that accusation, and in fact if it was only that the pedophile accusation got slung I don't think the target member would have reacted the same way.

Oh, that's one of the joys of the forum and my heart doth flutter when I think of Theymos's extreme tolerance of language.  All of this racial stuff brings me back to 2016, when the world was only slightly less obsessed with victimhood trophies and identity politics.  Fun times they were.

Someone can always express their opinion in different ways - including using dirty words. The question is; Have you had it so far?
If you are talking about trolls - then ignore them and don't even try to feed them. I don't think the forum will be responsible for the insults you get - but you can report the post for review although I don't know how the moderators handle it.

Did you know - someone who is insulted multiple times will probably be more successful than the user who insulted them. So just ignore it and live your life on the forum without caring about your feelings as much as possible.

People come from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures, right? Well, profanity can be pretty different depending on where you are. Some cultures are cool with it, others not so much. What's offensive in one place might not even raise an eyebrow somewhere else.

People should have the freedom to express themselves however they want! I mean, using swear words can be a way of showing your attitude, right? So, we shouldn't clamp down on that.

Nothing needs to be changed in my opinion. Insults, insults or dirty words are common when someone is possessed by anger, but if you don't like it then you can just ignore it. The forum is only really concerned with threats of bodily harm or death threats, so if you get one then report it.

This is a unique discussion forum, there is freedom of speech but you can ignore anyone you don't like. You can take advantage of this feature if someone insults you and insults you, but it's a good idea to thicken your skin.

Well, if moderators begin to filter the kind of words that are used on this forum, then the forum might be kind of boring in the sense that members would now begin to mind the kind of words they use here, which is going to be kind of boring. This is the internet, where anyone can say anything they wish to say and exercise their freedom of speech, and there's no penalty for that as long as what you said is not an open threat to harm or kill the person, and that's also the reason why privacy is very important. On the forum, you are allowed to say what you want; if you don't like what the next person says against you, you can just turn a blind eye and move on. If someone calls you mad, that doesn't mean you are mad; if you think it's an insult to you and you can't bear it, you can either ignore the person or, from what I have learned from other reputable members, develop a thick skin to surf through any insult, criticism, or abusive words. In fact, the forum is cool the way it is; sometimes we learn when we are criticized or insulted for some sh*tt we do.

You would want me to banned if I told you “can your dick reach your ass?, then go fuck your self”

Basically go fuck yourself.



  Now death threats they deserve a ban.
 Doxing a person and suggesting they need to be punished  that should mean ban.
Calling a person a pediphile with zero proof may deserve a banning.

I have been told fuck you more than once in my life no big deal.

In real life I have had a mob guy tell me he would hurt my kid brother that was a big deal.

But letting a guy or girl tell a person to fuck off is not a big deal in my book.

In fact I will now fuck off.

I think you're mistakenly took the meaning of freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech does not mean you're also entitled to freedom of consequences and neglecting the concept of a system. And the things you mentioned above are consequences of one's action. If they post something that's out of context, they're still allowed to, they're free to do it, but their post will get moved. Likewise, if they post something faulty, their credibility will be questioned, if they post a plagiarized content or other things that's against the rules of the forum, they'll be questioned and if found guilty, tagged. Again, consequences.

A freedom of speech neglecting a system or a rule [where a post should be posted, or what [oot] comment on what board, or what kind of post are not allowed] is an anarchy.

Only if you let them! I still think you're missing the point: nobody can hurt you online as long as you don't give them that power.
The internet is much nicer when you can't be hurt by words.

Now, it's a debatable thing. I choose to give power to someone I like and am close to—for example, my friends and family. It's the internet; we barely make good friends on the internet, especially on anonymous forums. Even if someone looks like he is my friend, I don't know what he has in his mind. Let's say I know some forum members' usernames only, and I exchanged some DM and slowly built a good relationship even though we don't even know our real names. I don't think any of them are going to hurt me. Even if they do, that will be a scam.

I agree with the bold part. It's easy to get hurt on the internet forum where we don't know each other. If people choose to be jerks because no one knows their real name, they are an idiot. I feel like I was not able to explain well because of the language barrier.

Oh boy... whoever makes this will make a lot of revenue if they sell it by subscription.

You're missing the point: if you choose to give someone the power to hurt you through your screen, you're doing something wrong. If someone calls me a pedophile, he's an idiot. It's that simple.

A person cannot be offended as long as he does not allow it to be done. OP, you can be different by talking to people politely and without swear words. But this does not mean that you can remake a person who very often has a mat in his speech and uses only prepositions. Accept the world and the forum as they are, with people who do not know how to restrain their anger, with people who do not know the culture of speech, and try to understand them.
Do you know that if you deny something, then there is a piece of the denied in you? So, first, change yourself, and then you will see a lot of good in people, even among those who seem rude to you today.


Try to complain about TMAN posts. I speak of him as the most sincere user and virtuoso in expressing his opinion. Many will not even be able to do something similar.
Therefore, if the post contains information on the topic, the moderators will turn a blind eye to how the author talks about it.

Anyone will criticize a user harshly if the user is mistaken, this could be because the user lacks knowledge of that specific topic or has an incorrect understanding of it.
If I were in their position, I would not immediately become angry with them but instead i would first check to see whether i was mistaken or not. After discovering such misunderstanding, I adjust my learning.

Simply click "ignore" button if you find that user anonyunh and report the post or reply if they are using foul language without cause.

I'm afraid I have to disagree!
People might have a different point of view or argument on a matter. You will find another group of people who do not respect your opinion and then start insulting you. The problem is, when you get bullied because of your opinion, you want to say something back, and it ends with exchanging some hit words, and then sometimes it goes to the extreme level when one person calls another a pedophile. For this reason, I believe you can get offended without even doing anything wrong.

By visiting the site and registering under this public forum, you have already agreed to and will be bound by the rules here. The rules have already been established, and how you feel about people's responses will not cause the rules to alter. How you speak in the forum cannot be monitored; if it could, it would be counterproductive since people would not learn faster by exploring different points of view of people in the forum. It is not always about the unpleasant remarks, but about the harsh responses too, which I believe are acceptable and can be learned from. If you can’t still tolerate it from the person, just ignore the user.

The forum has already done something about this. It’s called the ignore button. You can simply add anyone who you feel offended by to your ignore list and you will never see their posts again. As for me, I would not be offended if anyone called me names here, SatoPrincess is only an online persona, the real person behind the account is anonymous and cannot be hurt by silly words. There is so much to do and learn here, I really cannot be bothered to respond to trolls or unprovoked attacks, You’re somewhat new here, like others have advised it’s better for you to grow thicker skin. If you are that pissed, you can give a neutral tag to the user with reference to the post but suggesting ban for using foul language in a forum where scam isn’t moderated is a very stupid idea!!!

Understand that that is how some people talk normally, they may not even see it as offensive, but you on the other hand will be taking what they have said seriously and very personally like they knew you from somewhere before and have a reason to not like you or want to bully you. Most of the time the problem is not what is, the problem is how you see the problem. Some words that you may consider to be foul and offensive, may be words that some other people based on environment where they grew up or family may not see as offensive because they use those words. Grow up and don't let your esteem be shaped by other people's opinion of you.

If I want to reply to someone's post and call them a fucking idiot, that is my right. You have the right to ignore me or scroll past my reply. Let's not be part of the cancel culture here. It's not that complicated and we don't need snowflakes trying to change something that doesn't need changed.

No one actually has freedom of speech because at some point you have to follow the rules of the platform that you are using to convey your message. For example, if you make some advertising, a CTA message, or a post in a Bitcoin discussion, that topic will be moved to service discussions, which means you have no control. Another example is if you make a post with some faulty or wrong information and try to lead people the wrong way, you will be tagged as neutral or maybe removed if you are found guilty of plagiarism. We all know that by following the simple rules, we can live forever here until we die, but if we don't follow the rules, we can't survive here.

Now, if we talk about abusive language, then use of foul language is not encouraged here; instead, it is banned here, and the best way to report such pist is to report it to moderators, as, in my opinion, censor filtration tool integration is not going to help. As many members tried to emphasise, do not use filtration as it will only cover more space on the domain or hosting while we have moderators who are getting paid and have the full authority to remove someone's post if they are not following the rules.

They will not alter the post, which means they will not edit it, but they could delete it.

There are so many trolls on internet and if you don't want to face those trolls then kindly stop using internet or ignore those trolls without thinking about anything else. As far as I know about this forum then you are wrong because most of the members of this forum are decent and they doesn't troll with others while we can't ignore the fact that there can be some members who may use some harsh words but still I would say that you should ignore such people in your mind or ignore them on his forum. But, my friend I don't think that ignoring a user will completely remove it from your memories so it's better to ignore the words of that user and continue to use the forum the way it is.


I don't think that it's needed or fair to ban a user if he/she clashes with another user on some matter. The forum allows freedom of speech and anyone can say anything without any restrictions. We can't stop anyone from using the words that they use in their daily life and in the same way we can't stop anyone from using those words on this forum. If you think you don't like the words of other users then kindly click on the "Ignore" button that placed somewhere left-bottom of that user and you won't see the posts of that user anymore. The admins can't filter all foul words and banning a user for using of a wrong word is totally against the freedom of speech.

So I should get banned because I hurt your feelings or someone else feeling or I should give up my privilege of receiving some reward (from signature campaign) because I'm not been a nice guy to you on the internet. What type of world are you trying to live in, don't you know for the world to be balance both the nice and bad guys need to live together and that's how it should be for the forum. The forum isn't even toxic enough because everyone is trying to be in their best behavior, so the newbie will be welcomed. Apart form their who are just trolling and not making any sense I don't see any offensive behavior been exhibited on the forum.

If anyone isn't happy for the way they're been treated for just mere harsh words then he should logout of the forum. Nobody cares about your feelings here, this is a global community filled with different ways of life and we have people from all over the world so your beliefs aren't that superior. If you received abusive words and the contents of those replies aren't suitable for the forum, make use of the report button and let the moderators make the decision as that's why they're there (to keep the forum clean off spam).

Some people practice such rush behavior that they easily get offended and attack others with bad words. I do not think there is anything we can do about it. Sometimes a word serves different meanings depending on which region of the globe that word is being used. One community slung can be one community's general expression. If the moderator starts censoring every foul word they they won't get the time to do other important work.

A forum is a forum. There's no need to filter it unless it's gone too far. Instead, we must filter by ourselves and not think too deeply because this is freedom of speech.

After all, it's an old topic that probably no one else is interested in anymore. Maybe you can do it on social media like Facebook and others by reporting to the admin. But for a forum, it's not necessary.

It's better you close the thread so it doesn't become spam.

Look what I found: Advanced Profanity Filter, available for different browsers. Of course, use at your own risk: this add-on will get access to everything you have in your browser, but hey, if that helps protect your feelings, good for you

I'd like to see the opposite: turn all the "carefully selected words" back into their true meaning. It should be called "The TMAN Filter"

In fact, during the years I spent on the forum, I found only a few of these people. I am not bothered by those who use obscene words as much as I am bothered by those arrogant people who speak in a condescending manner and think that they are smarter than everyone, but I do not pay them any attention.

You can simply ignore all the offensive words you hear without causing any fuss. This is an open online forum that includes people from all nations and cultures, and things or words that you consider offensive may be considered normal or even fun by others. You cannot judge all people.

Not every platform will protect your fragility from other people, One of the things people should learn when they use the internet is to learn how to not be bothered by harsh and offensive words. That being said, while the forum has free speech when it comes to offensive words, saying death threats is a bannable offence (at least, as far as I know)

Explosive emotions that arent expressed can also have a bad effect on a person. Sometimes dirty words are also effective to drive away fake newbies, lol.
If your mood is such sensitive, there is a text space below your avatar that you can use to let people know about it.

Usage of foul words can not be stopped by using some type of pattern or word detection tool. Because such filtration or detection tools will only filter words which are inserted in the database as foul ones. Means that if some person a unique way of bashing other and those words are not included in the data base then those words will not be filtered and that person can go away without any punishment.

The best way is already there in usage, which is report to the moderators. This feature is present at the bottom right corner. If you find any post not following the rules or using any type of foul language. Then report that post to the moderators and see the results. Believe me moderators are so active that you will get the response in few hours. I also have reported many posts but till now I have not read any post in which the users have bashed others in abusive language.

Sometimes, some members of this forum know each other as friends and that's why they call each other using foul languages.

It's always amazing how people volunteer to give up the freedoms they've been given. It's truely scary, not only online but also in real life.
Bitcointalk is the only forum I know that allows freedom of speech. If you don't like it, go to SJW forum.

What the f*ck, do you think censoring *BEEP* is going to make the forum any better? I miss TMAN, go read Poetry, by TMAN.

If you choose to be offended by something an anonymous person says on the big mean internet, you're doing something wrong. Why would you choose to give someone such power over you?

Calling an idiot an idiot is not trolling. A bit more context:

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To quote myself on the subject:

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I'm offended by your suggestion. Now you deserve a 7 day ban

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You should spend 2.5 minutes to listen to this guy: the only proper response to someone who says: "I'm offended!" is: "I don't care!".

Forum embodied how being decentralized like Bitcoin is. If we start censoring words that offend someone here then this only means that we are already centralized.

Ignore button and report to moderators are your best tool to fight this since the mods will delete the post if this is just off-topic and made solely just to offend/troll you. This is the difference of Bitcointalk forum to the rest of the forum.

This is an overkill and a suggestion I don't think will get implemented. Trolling and cyber bullying is not a major problem at this point in time, we are all just familiar strangers talking across our computer screen. But, if someone goes extremely overboard, you can report to the mods and specific action can be taken for such a case.

Even if hypothetically such a feature was implemented, it can easily be bypassed by adding certain characters to replace certain words like * or using v to replace u.

Do not expect kindness from strangers and you will not get dissapointed.

The famous and well known reference he use to describe being offended is this post, but if you never encountered his approach on debate and attack on personal traits on numerous threads, his "[un]official" title on his personal text clearly made this stance on being offended: "Thick Skinned Gang Leader".

To answer your question, if you're [easily] got offended by someone online, it means you're "doing something wrong", as you need to have a thicker skin if you want to have peace of mind on the forum or basically anywhere else on the internet.

In short, be like Bill, not Bob

I think this forum is still much better than social media like Facebook and Twitter. I've been offended here, but I'm over it and it's for the best. A more humanist forum, you can join Quora. But I'm not sure you're interested to joining there because there's no have signature campaign 

That will never happen, no matter that you and some others won't like it, because on this forum not even a scam is moderated, let alone some harsh words. I personally also don't want to read particularly offensive or rather simply vulgar posts, but as other members say, use the ignore button and don't wonder what's in someone's head because they're doing something that's not normal for you.

Before your time, some people called this way of expression poetry - luckily for you, you weren't here because you wouldn't have felt very welcome on the forum

There is unofficial rule against trolling.
But it does not lead to instant ban on a forum user after a trolling post. You can report trolling posts and help to erase them in the forum but to hope that the user will get a ban which is either temporary or permanent, is not easily reaching target.

Usually ban hammer is very softly used for trolling violations.

Why the fuck would you want something like that? And if you can't handle that, start using ignore option or even better grow a thicker skin.

I've been active on various forums for more than 20 years and one thing that always bothered me is that on vast majority of them you couldn't tell some idiot to fuck off without getting ban of some sort, or generally say something that doesn't align with moderators view so you can imagine how happy I was when I registered here.

Ensure you are not misquoting LoyceV because the above statement seems ambiguous. If I'm offended by someone online, it means I am doing something wrong by being offended by someone or I did something wrong to attract an attack on me?

What is your understanding of freedom of speech? Do you know that there is an unofficial rule that says "No trolling?". If freedom of speech is what you think it is, why will such a rule apply?

This is better, because even the person using numbers to replace words in order to use a foul word is convinced that they are doing something wrong and the receiver will no be wholly offended because the effect of the foul word is tammed by the sanity of the forum.

This forum adopt free speech, if you don't like some users that using bad words, then click ignore in their profiles.

Imagine you ask the administrator to censor "black monkey" words, if I use "black" or "monkey" word in my post (not trolling), the administrator will censor "black" or "monkey" word, this is false positive because it's not sensitive.

However someone can just use number to replace the word to make it visible e.g. bl4ck m0nk3y.

According to loyceV “If you can be offended by someone online, it means you’re doing something wrong”.

I actually don’t see any need why the forum should start censoring post just because they included a curse word in it, if you don’t like the way an user responded to your post the best thing you can do is to ignore them and forget something ever happened rather than to start engaging in a heated argument with both of you insulting yourself, after all you don’t know them and they don’t know you, so don’t let anyone’s words get to your head.

Don’t forget that this is a forum and everyone should be able to give his or her own opinion without being censored. And once the content of user get removed because of their choice of words then that would defeat the whole idea of “freedom of speech”.

I searched some old threads and even recent and found alot of trolls. Sometimes the trolling goes extreme. I have read where a big user of this forum was called a pedophile and he was so much wounded that he threatened to involve authorities.
I mean I can also call anyone a black monkey and go away with it. So many people are hurted by what happens online while a few are strong enough to take any bullet. This is the reason some newbies complain that here is not friendly. Actually there are bullies in this forum amidst the kind ones.
How about if the admin filter some keywords(foul words), such that when you use them, you will be handed ban. Such as 7days ban, few days signature ban, read only mode etc. This will promote peaceful co-existence and curtail to the barest minimum any form of bullying, unfriendliness, acrimony or as the case may be.