Otto?

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#1 Post by **tubadave** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:52 am

Otto, for those who don't know, is the auto-censor. The functionality for Otto came with this Bored, but nothing has been added to the master list of words for him to ban.

Should anything be added? Only YOU can decide.

peacock2121 · #2 Post by **peacock2121** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:54 am

okay, I tried to vote and it brought me here.

Maybe I'll try again, after having logged in.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #3 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:03 am

I am generally offended by profanity, but sometimes its essential. I would wait to see if it is a problem. And never take away our ability to call out TPTB as ratbastards.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #4 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:10 am

I don't want censorship at all. I would rather chose to not read than have somebody censored!

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #5 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:11 am

Sometimes you just need to say "bad" words like shit, crap or slut.

NellyLunatic1980 · #6 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:52 am

Anybody else notice that the bar graph looks like a giant middle finger?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #7 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:55 am

What does WGAS mean?

#8 Post by **tubadave** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:05 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What does WGAS mean?

Who Gives A Shit?

WGAS was a popular option to add to the end of a poll waaaay back in the old days of the Bored (around 2000-2001) and was generally just the answer people gave when they wanted to see the results without voting.

Sometime later, someone (Beast?) discovered a radio station in North Carolina with those call letters, and so references to Gastonia became common.

tubadave
(checking to make sure his Junior Bored Historian skills are still intact)

gsabc · #9 Post by **gsabc** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:36 am

tubadave wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What does WGAS mean?
Who Gives A Shit?

WGAS was a popular option to add to the end of a poll waaaay back in the old days of the Bored (around 2000-2001) and was generally just the answer people gave when they wanted to see the results without voting.

Sometime later, someone (Beast?) discovered a radio station in North Carolina with those call letters, and so references to Gastonia became common.

tubadave
(checking to make sure his Junior Bored Historian skills are still intact)

It was also what the head writer on PTBAM would write on potential show questions submitted by his/her subordinates when the question was felt to be of insufficient interest to be used. IIRC, this information appeared in an article about the writers, and was the original reason it showed up on the Bored.

tanstaafl2 · #10 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:48 am

Seems like it would be better not to have any censorship until and when it proves an issue. And by issue I don't mean a few people take offense at certain things. I mean a majority of people feeling that it has become a problem to the bored at large, often not so much by its use but by how it is used. And often that could go back to one or more posters choosing to use a word or words in a deliberate, hurtful and/or tasteless manner.

And then it might be better served to deal with the individual(s) in question rather than ban the word.

Should that ever happen. Hopefully it will not.

Hopefully...

Bob Juch · #11 Post by **Bob Juch** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:57 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Anybody else notice that the bar graph looks like a giant middle finger?

No, only you.

BackInTex · #12 Post by **BackInTex** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:50 pm

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Anybody else notice that the bar graph looks like a giant middle finger?

Too funny!

peacock2121 · #13 Post by **peacock2121** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:05 pm

tee hee

It does.

VAdame · #14 Post by **VAdame** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:06 pm

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Anybody else notice that the bar graph looks like a giant middle finger?

Well, now that ya mention it

#15 Post by **littlebeast13** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:47 am

tubadave wrote:WGAS was a popular option to add to the end of a poll waaaay back in the old days of the Bored (around 2000-2001) and was generally just the answer people gave when they wanted to see the results without voting.

Sometime later, someone (Beast?) discovered a radio station in North Carolina with those call letters, and so references to Gastonia became common.

tubadave
(checking to make sure his Junior Bored Historian skills are still intact)

You are pretty well correct. WGAS was used by our two resident pollsters in 2000, TomMitch and TR, as the "Who cares?" answer in their polls. I discovered the radio station WGAS in November that year (It is still in the archive in Phoenix), and I became the first to use WGAS in Gastonia as the final option in a poll I posted. I believe, on New Years Eve 2000. As I became a more proficient pollster, especially after BiT perfected TomMitch's 50 choice poll format, I continued to use our favorite radio station in some form or another in every poll I've posted since then, and of course, it was adopted by most others as well...

lb13

minimetoo26 · #16 Post by **minimetoo26** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:53 am

Hmmmmm.....

I don't want to ban it but I also don't want to see it. Perhaps well-placed, tastefully done profanity? I think most people know what is and isn't acceptable, and when it isn't quite acceptable at least it's clever? I think you know what I mean.

But I think we should be able to say slut. To keep PSM happy...

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #17 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:12 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
But I think we should be able to say slut. To keep PSM happy...

Thank you. Sloot just doesn't sound right.

#18 Post by **Bob78164** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:30 pm

minimetoo26 wrote:But I think we should be able to say slut. To keep PSM happy...

Fine. I'll say it. "Britney." There, satisfied?

--Bob

Beebs52 · #19 Post by **Beebs52** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:49 pm

Is sleet the plural of sloot?

#20 Post by **Bob78164** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:23 pm

When a sticky (or announcement) has served its purpose, is there any way to convert it to an "ordinary" thread? Or are the choices to leave it as a sticky or delete it? Because I think the time has come to let this thread move. --Bob

Bob Juch · #21 Post by **Bob Juch** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:06 pm

Bob78164 wrote:When a sticky (or announcement) has served its purpose, is there any way to convert it to an "ordinary" thread? Or are the choices to leave it as a sticky or delete it? Because I think the time has come to let this thread move. --Bob

Yes, edit it and save it as a normal message.

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