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Old 07-25-2009
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Unnecessary Censorship...

All of a sudden the site started censoring the word "**". Since that's going to be bleeped. I'll spell it so the server doesn't hear me, "Bee Why". You know, the homophone for "buy"!
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Old 07-25-2009
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same here, and others have reported it as well.
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Old 07-25-2009
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My bad, should be fixed now.

Edit: So, not yet but soon...
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Old 07-25-2009
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what, im lost, sorry.
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Old 07-25-2009
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I tried to censor a complete phrase which obviously didn't work and ended up censorship every instance of "by".

It's fixed now, please do let me know if you come across any further issues.
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the system started censoring anytime the letters 'by' were used in conjunction.
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Old 07-26-2009
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I think this whole censorship thing is ridiculous. If there is an abusive person who is obviously abusive to everyone, or there is a flamer, or just plain mean person, then TS can decide to take care of it, or warn the person. There are also others that have absolutely no sense of humor and/or have a thin skin.
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Old 07-26-2009
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I think you are reading beyond my words, the forum feature is called censorship so that's what I'm calling it, but the purpose of the settings I was working on was to prevent spam keywords.
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Old 07-27-2009
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Originally Posted by captaincranky View Post
All of a sudden the site started censoring the word "**". Since that's going to be bleeped. I'll spell it so the server doesn't hear me, "Bee Why". You know, the homophone for "buy"!
Automatic censoring ?

GIGO
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