Originally posted by wharvey:
Gabrielz,
I would ask why you feel the need to use an "offending" word in a post. We are trying hard to get this board back to a certain level of civility and posting words like that do not help.
I don't know anywhere that the word for condemn could be considered offensive. Even my 1975 dictionary doesn't mark it as such.
Personally, I believe censorship is wrong. If you don't like what people say and find them offensive, don't read them. If they really are offensive, everyone will ignore them, or boot them off the board.
However, if there are words which are truly offensive to the majority of readers, I guess it's a fair enough compromise to censor those for the sake of the feeble-minded people who really care.
There used to be about 7 words which couldn't be used on air in Australia. Now it's down to 1. Censoring anything beyond those very few words is taking political correctness to its ultimate, ludicrous extreme and pandering to a tiny minority, just the way UA does by chopping its films to bits.
The main point is context. If someone posts a quote of something said to them, we should be able to read the original text, not ****. If someone posts about an itinerary through ***uoka, it should appear unmolested by the software.