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hawkeye10
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2014 08:04 pm
@bobsal u1553115,
Quote:
Racism and three of four words is where I would stop: no "n" word, no "c" word.

Once you start makings lists of ism's and words to purge the lists will grow, just as sure as night follows day. Eventually they will get to ism's and words you kinda like.
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2014 08:06 pm
@hawkeye10,
Over react much? Chill. Not the same and not what I'm saying. When you calm down, we can talk.
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FOUND SOUL
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 02:46 am
@bobsal u1553115,
n******

Doesn't even really work does it, as you can work it out in a sentence.

djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 04:19 am
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:
You'd think if we know where that slippery slope was we could avoid it. Racism and three of four words is where I would stop: no "n" word, no "c" word.


"n" word? nonsensical? nomenclature? normal?

"c" word? comical? cormorant? carburetor?

or is it "n" "c"? neo classical

use the word or don't use the word, these silly letters just make us all look like "r" word, "d" word, "b" word's Wink

Miller
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 04:44 am
@Foofie,
Foofie wrote:

Like a free public event, all types can show up.


Yes, many may show up but today, all will not be allowed entrance to each and every event. After 9/11 and the Boston Marathon, many that show up will be descriminated against for the sake of public safety and to preserve the lives of all attendees.
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 04:56 am
@FOUND SOUL,
FOUND SOUL wrote:


I Moderated for no income.


I'm sure that God will bless you for your charity work on ABUZZ (old version). By the way, why not contact NYTimes or Boston.com and see if they can't come up with the money you earned from being a moderator?

Good Luck!
Smile
Miller
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 05:19 am
Do you really think that Pamela Rosa is racist, because of her posts, which are primarily copied from global newspapers?

Has she, in fact, made any racist posts ( her own statements) that would lead you to think that Pamela Rosa is racist?

If you haven't lived the life of any particular internet poster, seen what he's/she's seen and heard, lived through comparable today-today experiences, how can you determine if this person is a racist? How can you rid yourself of your own racism ,so as to be able to call someone else racist?

I feel that many, many of the wildly liberal posters on A2K and elsewhere today are themselves racists, who criticize others for being what they may perceive as racist, when in reality, their own racism is so real, they're afraid of admitting it to themselves. Basically they're projecting their own racism on non-racist individuals with unjust accusations.

We may have a situation, wherein the racists are calling the non-racists, "racists" primarily because of the guilt they feel for being racist themselves.
Thomas
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 10:06 am
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:
You'd think if we know where that slippery slope was we could avoid it. Racism and three of four words is where I would stop: no "n" word, no "c" word.

1) Then don't use them. And if you want, ignore users who do.

2) The filter you describe is trivial to circumvent with phonetic mis-spellings. ("Whassup, niggaz?") And once you fortify the dirty-word filter to block attempted circumventions like this, you're way down the slippery slope. For example, we did have a dirty-word filter on the old A2K site, the one that was built on phpBB. (phpBB is a software package for building forums like this; its dirty-word filter is part of the package.) This part of the site sucked. For example, I remember writing the word "specialisation" once, only to see it asterisked out. When I reported the apparent malfunction, a moderator responded that "specialisation" contains "cialis" as a substring. Apparrently, the phpBB developers judged that blocking just the bare "cialis" would have been too easy to circumvent.

The moral of the story: Enacting sensible moderation policies by computer is tricky. And enacting them through human moderators would be a waste of volunteer time.
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 10:40 am
@Miller,
Quote:
Has she, in fact, made any racist posts ( her own statements) that would lead you to think that Pamela Rosa is racist?


Come off it, you know damn well that consistently saying " blacks brutally murdering whites" is now considered racist, true or not. The definition of racism is now saying anything negative about another race, true or not. Speaking truth is not a defense of saying nasty things about other races, which is not wanted, because our brains cant deal with the proposition that racial groups might not be all equal. Our politics demands that they are, reality can not be allowed to dispute this.
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 10:59 am
@hawkeye10,
"KEEP THOSE WORDS AWAY FROM ME, I CAN'T DEAL WITH THEM!!"











"They interrupt the flow of my fantasies."
Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 11:29 am
@Miller,
You're not going to get many thumbs up with these comments Miller.

I haven't read many of Pamela Rosa's posts simply because from what I can tell they just keep regurgitating accounts of black on white violent crimes. Not that these crimes are trivial, they're just not often very relevant to the threads in which she posts them. It seems too close to spamming to me.

Maybe I should pay closer attention to them, but I don't quite understand why she is so loathed. I don't have her on "Ignore" but I can't say with any confidence that I know the substance of all of her posts which just goes to show that it's not too difficult to pass comments by without reading them.

I've seen posts from one of our English friends that seem far more racist, but I'm not sure whether or not he posts them simply for the sophomoric pleasure of provocation.

I agree that projection can be the basis of declaring "Racism" I also think that intellectual paucity can be the basis as well; not to mention a desire to feel morally superior. It can also be an accurate assessment of a vulgar sentiment or expression, but this is rarely the case in this forum.

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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 01:59 pm
@hawkeye10,
Can we whisper them?
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Miller
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 02:03 pm
@Finn dAbuzz,
Yes, it's possible to bypass the obscenity filter and one way is to insert one or more spaces in the specific word.

I haven't done that in a long, long time.
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FOUND SOUL
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 04:52 pm
@Miller,
Quote:
I'm sure that God will bless you for your charity work on ABUZZ (old version). By the way, why not contact NYTimes or Boston.com and see if they can't come up with the money you earned from being a moderator?

Good Luck!
Smile


Sigh, Miller I would have thought by now you would have realised I am an Australian, never knew ABUZZ, found my way here and refuse to leave, by the way, I could contact Tony Abbott, "our" Prime Minister but I doubt that will help me... I'm sure given I've been doing it for "Free" for over 8 years now that I don't want the money don't you? Not everything is about money, in-fact the best things in life are "Free"...........
djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 07:55 pm
@FOUND SOUL,
FOUND SOUL wrote:
Not everything is about money


what are you, some kinda communist Razz
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 09:48 pm
@hawkeye10,
Not really. How do you feel about the "n" word?
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 09:51 pm
@djjd62,
You play dense so convincingly.
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 09:55 pm
@Miller,
As a matter of fact, yes she has made a number of racist comments, she admits being racist and has made numerous comments on the sub-humanity of blacks and that Jews milk a hoax Holocaust for sympathy.

Don't take my word. Read hers.
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2014 09:56 pm
@Finn dAbuzz,
In the UK, some nasty word filters were so picky, they used to reject everyday words purely because within them a sequence of letters rang alarm bells.

Scunthorpe was a prime example.
 

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