Shite is in your list? Ha!
Oh, outside the Pit you need to keep gratuitous cursing out of the thread titles. We’re not strictly family friendly, but we try to keep the boards safe for work in case your boss peeks over your shoulder.
Could you cite a rule for that? Because this search result for the word “fuck” in thread titles found 16 instances outside of the Pit on the first page, the most recent of which is this thread in GD from earlier this month, without any mention of such a rule by any mod.
My God! They were full of stars?
Only the monolithic ones.
Booger!
You can’t say **** on this website,
or ****, or ****, or ****
You can’t even say I’d like to **** you someday
Unless you’re a doctor with a very large ****
(apologies to Eric Idle)
Well, gosh golly gee whiz!
Replete with Funky Winkerbean style machine gun.
Can we call you a mother-filter?
You do realize that shite is a curse word in other parts of the word. Also if you’re going to type shite and mpotherfudger then you, me and everyone else in the world knows you mean shit and motherfucker so technically you are cussing. Same as using ****. We all know by the context if you mean shit, fuck, cunt and probably several others. You are cussing and you’re not fooling anyone.
But for some reason, Jesus doesn’t, which is the important thing.
You might find it useful to read some of the sticky notes in each of the forum areas – they’re your road map to that particular area.
While we do have rules that govern the site as a whole (which you can read here), each forum has its own situations that apply there. So please take a minute and look around.
Hope you enjoy your time here at the Straight Dope, hell yeah!
At least there is no loud BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEP BEEP sound there way there is on a lot of US reality TV.
All this concern for virgin ears is just plain stupid.
We have a fucking hall? :smack: I always wondered why people came out of that part of the board looking all sweaty and rumpled! I thought it was the gym.
I remember at least one discussion a while back, in which some Dopers requested either a rule, or voluntary compliance, that people not use naughty words in thread titles, for reasons related to work-safeness, not tripping their company’s language filter, etc. Other Dopers responded to the suggestion by saying, essentially, “Four-asterisks-in-a-row that.”
Yeah, I don’t think there is a rule on point. I usually avoid doing it anyway, but I have given in to temptation at least once in recent memory.
It’s not American English so it counts If I say Shite in the states most people don’t catch on to what I am saying. Also, I use Sheisse a lot. The fact that most Americans are pretty monolingual fares in my favor when I am looking for alternative curse words,
Sure! April ‘Mother-Filter’ R
I like it:)
saucywench, what was the board you’re coming from?
I belonged to one before The Dope and the word filter was brutal. Annoyingly, stupidly brutal.
Hi Soylent Juicy-
Am I allowed to say the name of the other board here?
On the other board, the mere mention of another site would be grounds for flogging.