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What username would you like me to have?

Poll ended at Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:40 pm

Starlight
1
10%
El Dalango
5
50%
Don't know
4
40%
 
Total votes: 10

Hunchman801
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Re: My new username!

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I just checked the original message, and it was rayda.
Here is something I later wrote about forum censorship:
Hunchman801 wrote:As long as I will be the admin of Pirate-Community, there will never be any word censorship here.
First of all, people do not need cuss words to insult someone. That is why punishing those who attack the others without a good reason is the only solution to clashes.
Secondly, word filters cannot be efficient. If you want to censor the word fuck, do you have any idea how many combinations of letters, numbers and other characters you will have to disable? Any idiot is able to bypass it by adding dots and other symbols (f.u.c.k, f'u''c'k), by spelling it 1337 or using special characters instead of letters (f|_|[k).
Thirdly, in most cases, the censored word will be as understandable as the original one. Do you really think that spelling fuck f*ck will change anything? That someone reading '**** you' will be less offended than if he clearly read 'fuck you'?
Also remember that cuss words are part of our language, and that political and religious censorship have always been the enemies of culture.
Finally, if someone is shocked when reading a cuss word, then a Teletubbies forum will suit them much better than Pirate-Community.

I hope it is clear for everyone. Unless someone has anything interesting to add about that, which I doubt, I do not want to hear about word censorship from now on.
I guess it's quite clear :P
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Re: My new username!

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Finally, if someone is shocked when reading a cuss word, then a Teletubbies forum will suit them much better than Pirate-Community.
LøL!!! :lol:
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Re: My new username!

Post by Xenon »

And that avatar still exists to this day :P
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Re: My new username!

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It's one of the two punitive avatars we have here :)
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Re: My new username!

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Holy Crap wrote:Wel, it is meant to be a kid-friendly forum. Somehow, I don't think the parents of a six year old kid would like them on a forum where people keep swearing.
Parents of six-years-olds should keep their babies of forums and internet-communities entirely.
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They can't even read or write, what's the point? :roll:
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Re: My new username!

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That reminds me of when I tried to talk to a 5 year old whose daddy wrote a message for him on the Rayman Fanpage.
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Re: My new username!

Post by Holy Crap »

Limely wrote:
Holy Crap wrote:Wel, it is meant to be a kid-friendly forum. Somehow, I don't think the parents of a six year old kid would like them on a forum where people keep swearing.
Parents of six-years-olds should keep their babies of forums and internet-communities entirely.
True, but let's face it, the average age of new RZ members seems to be dropping, it won't be long until about 6 is it.
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Re: My new username!

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Awwww... How cute :3
And with that i mean: WHY CAN 6 YEAR OLD KIDS LOG IN AT RZ, WHEN I CAN'T!!??? :pascontent:
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Re: My new username!

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I've asked before and you said no, but do you want me to fix that? You keep complaining about it.
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Re: My new username!

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El Dango wrote:WHY CAN 6 YEAR OLD KIDS LOG IN AT RZ, WHEN I CAN'T!!??? :pascontent:
Probably because RZ really suits six-year-old kids ;)
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Re: My new username!

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Good answer. :)
Limely wrote:I've asked before and you said no, but do you want me to fix that? You keep complaining about it.
Bad answer. :pascontent: Okay, not really, but i don't really think you can fix it. And even if you do, i will just come back. You can't beat the system error... No one can...
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Re: My new username!

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Lal, thing is, they found a work-around. All I'd have to do is clear a particular field in your profile, and as long as you don't edit that particular field, you're going to be fine. I've already done it for a couple of others.
It's quite fail though, that they don't have it completely fixed. :/
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Re: My new username!

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The funniest is that they have to pay a lot of money for such a crappy system Image
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Re: My new username!

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I have no idea why they keep it since everyone, users, mods and admins alike, seems to think it's a pain in the ass.

Awesome smiley by the way. xD
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Re: My new username!

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Thank you! Image We have to pay for the hoster, but phpBB is free, and much better than Groupee Image
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Re: My new username!

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El Dango wrote:Well... i guess people will have to get used to it, because Hunch won't change it again, and i won't force him to do it. Plus, i like my new username. But i'm still the same old fart as i've allways been. :D
The happy dude who once was screwing around RZ, before it became a hellhole. Good times...
*sigh* Gotta get with the flow....
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Re: My new username!

Post by Holy Crap »

El Dango wrote:Good answer. :)
Limely wrote:I've asked before and you said no, but do you want me to fix that? You keep complaining about it.
Bad answer. :pascontent: Okay, not really, but i don't really think you can fix it. And even if you do, i will just come back. You can't beat the system error... No one can...
They have, i had that problem all i had to do was make a new account and ask them to fix it.
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Re: My new username!

Post by Beebop »

Hunchman801 wrote:
El Dango wrote:WHY CAN 6 YEAR OLD KIDS LOG IN AT RZ, WHEN I CAN'T!!??? :pascontent:
Probably because RZ really suits six-year-old kids ;)
I can still get in. :P
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Re: My new username!

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No surprise :lol:
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