i could give a fcuk what kind of language people use here. it's the ignorant stereotypes and generalizations that miff me lol
Here's your answer: lack of (artificial) intelligence. The software that can filter out profane language only has to have the intelligence of a mosquito. But software that could detect insults would have to have the intelligence of a mouse, which is far beyond the skills of most WEB programmers to develop. So insult filters don't get developed for the WEB, but have to depend on active, human monitors, which this site doesn't have. It only has automatic filters with the thinking abilities of mosquitos.
Insults are dished out left and right on this forum with no censure. If you find a thread with more than ten posts, the probability is high that there is at least one insult in the thread. Your site filters aren't smart enough to filter out insults that don't use profane language. It requires active participants like you to notice non-profane insults and do something about it.
For some reason, seeing it in print offends some people a lot more than hearing it. Maybe because the written words sits there, staring you in the face, whereas hearing it, it just flies by and is gone.
There are always people who think "things are going down hill." This site doesn't seem to be any worse than it was in the past. Things go up and down over time on all forums.
So are highly literate insults, but they go uncensored because WEB sites don't have the artificial intelligence to filter them out. I was a member of a parrot list that had one of these brainless "bad word" filters and messages were being filtered out that had the word, "c*ck" in them when referring to male birds, a totally inoffensive word in context. That's one of the problems with word filters that don't perform semantic analysis, i.e. all word filters.
A truly intelligent filter would analyze the meaning and context and automatically substitute a conventional word that conveys the same degree of insult. Then no one would be offended apparently.
