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Posted by: Nedus
With all the "profanity" in movies, TV, and even games (Gears of War), I don't get why many words are blocked on these forums. A filter implies that gamers can play a violent game where you kill things with all sorts of weapons, but can't handle a few words that are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives.
Because even though younger children shouldn't be playing these games (they still do, of course...) they should be perfectly welcome on the forums and they and other users shouildn't have to see swear words everywhere.
As a counter to my own argument, I understand that there are plenty of jackasses here who would abuse many words that are currently filtered, but still, there are some rather questionable filtered words here. Achronos, are words filtered because you find them personally offensive, for whatever reason?
He said on the first page it was the standard MSN filter list with some words removed from it, I think...
Most English swear words aren't filtered. And to answer the original question, filtering 'sex' would get rid of Sussex, Wessex, sextet etc. etc... And it's not a rude word, anyway.
Finally, would people please stop posting "Ch1cken is blammed!" (replace ch1cken with any rude word). No-one needs to know, unless it's a questionable one.