Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

LOL  I never thought the replacement filters would be this funny.  I'll have to adjust them.  Or Ben.  One of us.

We can turn them all off for a while and see how that goes, methinks.  Much appreciated.  Now back to work for me!  Got a lot of steel to shape.

That was my thought last night when your sub made me “work” instead of resting in my sleep   

I’m not sure about the SFW areas but in an 18+ forum populated, I dare say, by decent people, why do we need automatic filters at all? It looks to me that there is already very good human moderation and I do not think anyone would be shocked by the word sh*t written full out in a forum where adult topics are discussed.

Those filters were set in 2010 when we were just opening the forum and didn't really understand what was going to happen.  We were trying to keep it from becoming a place where people were being vulgar and rude and help prevent racism, etc.  Some of those goals are just not going to be stopped by such filters, and the rest it doesn't really matter for anymore.  So we can turn them off, for the time being.  So chalk it up to an artifact of inexperience.