WWTBAM Bored

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What does WGAS mean?

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)

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.

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...

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

No, only you.

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

Too funny!

tee hee

It does.

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

Well, now that ya mention it

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

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...

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

Thank you. Sloot just doesn't sound right.

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

Is sleet the plural of sloot?

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

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.