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Re: Let's discuss Podmaster's Signature

by mpolo (Chaplain)
on Jan 06, 2004 at 13:50 UTC ( [id://319112]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Let's discuss Podmaster's Signature

On principle, I would say that I do personally object to profanity in posts and signatures in general, but I've become pretty good at just ignoring isolated bits, and if the post is too thick with them, I don't read them. I'd rather not have to see the profanity, but that's the world we live in.

Given Perlmonks partial identity as a place for newbies to ask for help, we should probably avoid profanity as much as possible, but I think that a -- vote for particularly offensive nodes or a /msg to the offending monk is probably a much better response than trying to filter things automatically. Besides, He Who Must Not Be Named must have better things to do with his time than to axe four-letter words.

So, I guess I'm basically concurring with the rest... The "solution" here would have been to discuss this privately with PodMaster. Since he seems to be "intransigent" on the issue (see his response), though, I suppose even by that logic, coming public with the discussion was the right thing to do. But it seems that you (and I) are in the minority here.

Perhaps you, princepawn could produce the necessary hacks to invoke your module based on a user preference. Based on vroom's comment on the original node, I don't particularly want to read the docs for your module to do it myself. :-) I doubt that Our Fearless Leader would object to a drop-in solution that makes a long-standing monk more comfortable in the monastery without incoveniencing the others. (Of course we then would have to have the discussion as to whether this defaults to "on" or "off"...)

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Re: Let's discuss Podmaster's Signature
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 06, 2004 at 14:05 UTC
    Oh, yes, and let's open a can of worms on what's offensive and what isn't. Personally, I find a phrase like God bless America (which goes back to the middle ages, with no separation of state and church) far more offensive than MJD's quote you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!.

    But let's not go that way.

    Abigail

      I find a phrase like God bless America ... far more offensive than MJD's quote ... But let's not go that way.

      OK, I won't go there, but you still got a ++ from me.

      Cheers,
      Ovid

      New address of my CGI Course.

Re: Re: Let's discuss Podmaster's Signature
by Zero_Flop (Pilgrim) on Jan 07, 2004 at 07:46 UTC
    princepawn, better yet you could turn your module into a proxy, then you can use it to filter all of your web content, not just Perlmonks. You can make this available to others who feel as you do, and it does not impact the rest of us or the server.

    Just my 2cents

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