I think the reason the word !@#$%^ is banned in chat is because nobody ever uses it referring to a form of British meat ball and pretty much every single time it is used it refers to the pejorative term for homosexual. I've never in my life seen the use of that word refrring to the meat ball thing.

The thing is that there are certain words that are used almost exclusively in a bad or inappopriate-for-chat-talk context. Words like brick, vagina and especially !@#$%^ are part of that word. The chance of someone using a word like this in any context that can be considered appropriate is so low that it makes sense that they are censored. If you want to discuss forms of British meatballs, it's fairly easy to use synonyms.

So because people do their best to work their way around censored words so they can use the pejorative term anyways, the censor filter should be abolished? Pretty far fetched. I'll tell you what: as soon as the word !@#$%^ stops being primarily used internationally as a swear word with a meaning similar to homosexual and starts being used primarily referring to some kind of obscure type of British meat ball, it'll go out of the word censor.

What you bring up is something that people have thought about already - while working on the word filter, and even before that. The simple fact of the matter is that !@#$%^ is never used to refer to meat balls on the internet, but to a whole different kind of balls. As such, it should be censored.

There is always the possibility that a censored word poses a problem when used in certain contexts, but in many cases (including this particular one) the positives of a word filter outweigh the negatives by far.

Yeah, the only time that somebody uses said word to refer to a cigarette or, in theory, this meat ball thing I've never heard of is to complain about it being censored -- even though it's not a word this person would use him/herself, based on the fact they've never used it in chat except to complain that it's censored -- the rest of the time it's used in the pejorative sense.  We can't have a mod in the chat 24 hours a day, so while we do our best to monitor it, having a bot to kick people for language is generally helpful/necessary.  As for brick, we were having problems with lewd sexual discussions occurring in chat so we put that in place to prevent it from continuing.  Such subject matter is against the site rules, anyway, so there's really no legitimate reason to be using this word in the chat.  The chat censor only allows for up to 40 words so we had to leave a few of the more exotic terms out of it and focus on words that are more frequently abused.

No no no, I just think that mouldy's list of bad words should be improved. I think you were there when Yoder called vik that word but with an extra g in it. I then posted a link to the wikipedia page explaining what that popular Midlands meat ball is but got kicked because the word was in the link. Yoder didn't get kicked by mouldy though did he?

Lets focus on this then because it is the issue that I made the thread for in the first place.

Ah ok, I see.

It wasnt Vik you now it was Vim me

Please excuse that double post, it was obviously a glitch.

Yes, obviously/