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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2011, 11:58:30 am »
That service doesn't exist you would have to move to individual hosting account. any free service that is advertising supported will run into these issues or go bust.
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2011, 11:58:46 am »
Yeah a little more warning would have helped.... Just cause I didn't know it was happening everybody thought I was d***ing around.... And it took a while and several PMs to clear it all up....  But I guess it sounds like you're in the same boat here.... And using "censored" over "****" was kinda silly.... But you changed that part so it's not as bad....

We had a censor on ours before.... But we took it off once we realised our average user age went up.... So for us it's not that bad....

So we cool....

But if you ever think of doing that exception policy please consider us.... Brawler's Paradise.... Wink wink....

Also if you could censor this ">_>" too I'd forgive you completely.... I hate that emoticon and people on my forum overuse it....
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #32 on: March 31, 2011, 12:01:43 pm »
That's how it is today I was given 48 hours hours to make the change or loose it so changes had to be made. They don't give any warning basically I can never take a vacation.
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2011, 12:10:36 pm »
So what words are censored anyway?

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #34 on: March 31, 2011, 12:12:05 pm »
Basically any swear word. I may setup an exception system to allow forums to optin but would require a forum review.
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #35 on: March 31, 2011, 06:26:19 pm »
Even a simple post on here would of been good but i cant see anything.

Also whacks was censored yesterday, glad to see its not anymore...

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2011, 07:08:45 pm »
Not to sound rude or intrude on this because I'm just learning about this.

From what I understand by reading is that the advertisement service has stated that they will not tolerate any mature content on the sites their ads appear on. They gave SMF a notice. He put in this new system to avoid any conflict with said service.

Honestly, I don't think he HAS to give us any warning. This is a free service. And if you pay for ad free credits, it doesn't apply.

The way I see it, we all have 2 options here.

1. We deal with it
2. We pay to remove both the ads AND the censor
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #37 on: March 31, 2011, 08:15:31 pm »
you missed out on number 3. Leave.

It just would of been nice to have known about this before hand.

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #38 on: March 31, 2011, 08:23:02 pm »
It's not like it's the end of the world. You can't use inappropriate language. That's just the way it is. It's not like this is SMF's fault.
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #39 on: April 01, 2011, 04:44:44 pm »
Should I renew my Ad-free upgrade, will the annoying (****) go away from the already censored topics? Yes, (****) are seriously annoying.

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #40 on: April 01, 2011, 05:13:16 pm »
They they would go away the ****
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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #41 on: April 01, 2011, 05:35:19 pm »
Many thanks, I will probably renew it because I can't unsee the **** horror

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #42 on: April 01, 2011, 08:27:58 pm »
you missed out on number 3. Leave.

It just would of been nice to have known about this before hand.

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #43 on: April 01, 2011, 10:48:03 pm »
Do individuals have to pay, or just one person pays for the ad free thing?

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Re: Why are words suddenly censored?
« Reply #44 on: April 01, 2011, 10:50:28 pm »
Just one person in your case removes the censors and the ads.
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