Timeline for How to ask about games with "impolite" names?
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 7:52 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | @JeffAtwood So even wikipedia is using words as they are. Does that mean they are blacklisted? | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 18:13 | comment | added | Pops | I actually agree that censoring is unnecessary, but I don't agree with your rationale. -1 if I had the rep. | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 17:21 | comment | added | gomad | @Jeff - Well, I suppose you can drag out other parental chestnuts, so I'll beat you to it: Your roof, your rules. :) But BGG has chosen some excellent cliffs to jump off of when it comes to running a boardgame community site, you must admit. And I must admit, I wasn't thinking about *.SE.com, I was thinking about boardgames. What forest? All I see are these trees.... | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 5:15 | comment | added | Brian Campbell | @Jeff Do you have evidence of proxies that blacklist sites based on occasional curse words on sibling subdomains? Censoring four-letter words will be a lot of manual work, and make it harder to discuss certain games, whose names are said four letter words, without any demonstrable benefit. You can't exactly censor curse words on english.stackexchange.com, so they will already be appearing on other subdomains. In fact, many show up on StackOverflow: goo.gl/At5E (Google search for various inappropriate words on StackOverflow); is StackOverflow already blocked by said proxies? | |
| Oct 26, 2010 at 3:46 | history | edited | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 26, 2010 at 0:20 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | So if BGG jumped off a cliff, we should too? :) We can't risk having the entire *.stackexchange.com domain put on corporate blacklists because a few people want to talk about profane board game titles. Ain't worth it. | |
| Oct 20, 2010 at 22:21 | history | answered | gomad | CC BY-SA 2.5 |