- Ric_Adbur
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The current system is completely absurd. This is a community where it's totally acceptible to talk about 'adult films,' or 'a certain historical german fascist political party,' and yet you can't say the actual words. In fact, in most cases there's no prohibition on discussing the concepts behind the words, as long as you don't say the actual words themselves. How does that make sense to anyone? Just what does that accomplish? If words are simply used to denote concepts, and the concepts themselves are not prohibited, then what makes the words themselves so taboo? The words are nothing without the concepts they represent.
Not to mention, most of the people who come here already know the vast majority of the words that are filtered anyway, so all the filter really accomplishes is to annoy everyone and waste the mods time that could be better spent watching for actual concerns.
Wish I'd saved the wall-of-text I sent to Bobcast on this subject when he banned me for bypassing the filter about a week ago.
[Edited on 07.07.2012 7:44 PM PDT]