Do you write software?

Professionally? For a little less long than jal2. (Though not full time. I find system configuration, networking, system integration and installation, etc, more interesting than software projects which, these days, tend to last years.)



These machines are happy old 32-bit machines. (The AMD is just a 900MHz Athlon.)



TKH, what kind of silliness is this? To give a ****is perhaps slang. It's what dictionaries call "informal". Not a single one calls it vulgar, which is what I would expect if you are going to label it as "inappropriate".
Cambridge Dictionary: "not give/care a ****Informal:
used as a way of saying you do not care about something, especially the annoying things that someone else is doing or saying"
Oxford Dictionary (closest phrase): "not be worth a ****Informal: have no value"
American Heritage Dictionary: "****: Noun 2. Informal: The least valuable bit; a jot: not worth a ****."

If people here spent more time making the programs work and less time censoring innocuous posts, we'd all be better off.

**Edited for inappropriate language**
TKH

Hello Kremmen,

The word that has been edited is on a list of words that are not to be used on this website and so it has been edited.

You are correct, we do have more important things to do than edit the forums, but as we ask that our forums be "kid friendly" we request that our members not use such words here. We appreciate your cooperation.

Thanks

Tedi

1) As dictionaries are clearly insufficient proof for you of the inappropriateness of the list in this case, I'll suggest another: The phrase "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is a famous line from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, which has been rated G in the USA since 1971. If you are editing out phrases which appear in G-rated movies, I'm afraid I can't only conclude that whoever made up the list is an idiot and should be ignored.
2) "Cooperation" with such idiocy is difficult. I honestly had to look through my post word by word to find out what you'd censored, as I had no idea what it could be.
3) If you're going to blindly implement a block list without context, then you would at least save time if it were done automatically through the forum software and contributors would know what it was that was being censored that way, rather than having to waste time working it out later.

Sounds like you're about to pat them on the head and throw them a treat.


The policy, if applied to actual abusive or annoying behaviour, is understandable. Some of the words, however, clearly do not belong on the list and it would be my hope that that can be changed. If not, they can censor out that which is acceptable in a G-rated movie and I leave it as an exercise for the reader to judge that action.


I wonder how much mental processing it takes to work out which G-rated words are allowed and which ones aren't and in which contexts? Now, if only that wasted energy could be devoted to, say, fixing programming errors that have existed for 3 months.



IMHO, they are the ones making things hard. Sorry, when people want to waste my time in this way, I will happily give them at least as much back.