Hi Kolbj�rn,
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Kolbj�rn wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Clm wrote:
>
>> .. Without wanting to sound 'prudish' or being accused
>> of being a 'party pooper, I was only inquiring as to the
>> "acceptable" behavior on the Vapor Server. It's just
>> that if saying fuck this or fuckin that is considered
>> "acceptable", then I don't want to visit the Vapor Server
>> any more. Maybe the person was drunk. I don't know.
>>
>> .. Has anyone visited there, and found this type of talk,
>> and is it 'normal', or possibly just a one-time happening?
>
>Dont know about the vapor server, but #amiga at amiganet sure has its
>own "standard" which is way more liberal than most channels I've been
>on, funny thing is that noone seems to be bothered, might be an
>idea to put up a "parential warning, explicit lyrics" in the topic
>every now and then, hehe :)
.. If no one is bothered about the language, then it probably
is a site not for me. Your "parental warning, explicit lyrics"
sounds like an excellent idea.
>> .. How come the BOT can't do an automatic reply on
>> disturbing words such as fuck, and have a reminder such as
>> 'try to keep the language clean' or something? Maybe I
>> have the wrong impression of what a BOT could be capble
>> of doing, or would I be just "spoiling everyones 'fun'"?
>
>A filter script that exchanges ruse words with less rude words might
>be an idea? :)
.. That sounds good too. :)
>Myself I find profanity intersting, as it various from language to language,
>english seems to be locked with the sexual references, while noone is
>disturbed by a "Oh my God", even though the bible explicit tells you not
>to abuse the name of the bearded dude. Germans, as the farmers they are, like
>to talk about the weather and their pets, so they scream "Donnerwetter" and
>call each other "schwein" and so forth, the french thinks "shit" (merde) is
>about as bad you can go and here in norway we curse by using satan, hell and
>abveriations over that. For some languages profanity is more natural and
>accepted than others... oh well.. a filtering script is a nice idea anyhow :)
.. Germans are farmers. :) They sound like my kinda folks -- down
home sounding. <grin> Yup, the filtering script sure does sound like
a nice idea.
Thanks,
Charlene
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