Quote:However, this board is based and run in Jacksonville, Fl. U.S.A. correct?  I wonder what percentage of people that participate on the message board happen to live here?  The other thing to look at and take into consideration is that if a rule is in place and justified as this being a "family friendly" message board, it should apply to all topics, not just select topics such as profanity or "veiled profanity".

 

The other thing that should be considered is the worldwide visitors that come here.  The same rules that apply to us should apply to them as well.

 

Heck, "profanity" is being used in this very thread right now.  Our Euro friends are using it freely and from looking it up myself it basically means something that rhymes with hunt or ditch when referring to a woman in a vulgar way [BAD WORD REMOVED].  You have a mod/admin just letting it go that is European while knowing what it means.

 

So here is a question.  Since the filter didn't pick that up as a bad word, do our Euro friends (including our foreign Admin) get a warning or do they get a pass?

 

I think it's like a tree falling in a forest.

 

If no one notices (in this case.. understands it,) did it happen?

 

Can we call each other bobo?  Without speaking it, you can't tell how it's being used.  Many words can mean many things when spoken, but impossible to tell in text.  In Spanish it can mean something negative (moreso if said with emphasis.)  Which is funny, because there are French/American adoptions of this word for faux intellectuals.  Which, in a roundabout and very unintentional way fits them very well.

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