I see an economic diasater coming...

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Let's try this: c@sin0 and see if it flies.

It's censored primarily for self-preservation. The way the laws work when you have a site, you can be sued, charged or otherwise shut-down for even -linking- to content that's not allowed, so if one of your users posts a link that's questionable, -you- take the hit.

Anyway, that particular word is probably off-limits more for spamming-type reasons, but you never know...

BTW, most forum scripts let you enable a 'bad-words' list, as admin, you get to decide which words are allowed or not allowed, that's what's going on here.
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Thought I'd pass this on, just another point of view:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327271.700-population-overconsumption-is-the-real-problem.html

Tony
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Let's try this: c@sin0 and see if it flies.

It sure does.  The software doesn't recognize the word as being banned.

It's censored primarily for self-preservation. The way the laws work when you have a site, you can be sued, charged or otherwise shut-down for even -linking- to content that's not allowed, so if one of your users posts a link that's questionable, -you- take the hit.

Good thinking.  Now I know more.  I agree wholeheartedly.

Anyway, that particular word is probably off-limits more for spamming-type reasons, but you never know...

Yeah, probably so.  I'm fairly sure spammers can key on words to spider them or link to them.

BTW, most forum scripts let you enable a 'bad-words' list, as admin, you get to decide which words are allowed or not allowed, that's what's going on here.

That follows.  Software companies would use that as a selling point and customize the database filters.  You bet.

BTW, I'll try and remember the word above and the go-around fix.  I might still get a warning from the Moderators?  Depends on the word?

--Lee

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@ Lee

I don't think the moderators will get that upset by using a euphemistic representation for a "banned" word unless it is to degrade or attack another forum poster, at least they haven't when I have done the same (or worse) as typing c@sin0.

Many forum packages have an already populated ban-list which many just leave in place, but moderators don't actively scan for.

Stefan is a good site owner and uses (mostly) good judgment in allowing most posts that, while they may not be "PC" (politically correct), are not attacking another poster or race.
If he does censor a post or topic he addresses why he did it so that all members have an idea where the action came from and what about it made him do so.
He seems to choose moderators that share that definition of freedom of speech and expression, and listens when some claims unjust censorship.

@ all

The fact that you're at this site proves that you are all interested in new cleaner and self sufficient energy production. Present energy production methods and "needs" are the #1 type/cause of over consumption.
We all see it and do it in one way or another, or we'd have no interest in being here.
Being able to produce for your own power needs more cleanly takes out a large part of that over consumption, as well as taking a major step towards self sufficiency, and is a goal everyone should take seriously.

While I hate to think of myself as a "doom and gloom sayer" or "chicken little", it would seem from recent events that there is an ever increasing need for people to become self sufficient.
I do have to congratulate those active in this thread for looking into how to fend for themselves and their families for a variety of reasons, economic disaster being just one.

The loss of basic civil and human rights which give more power to gov't over the the people it governs seem to be happening with more and more regularity.
When this happens historically, it leads to those in power abusing those governed to the point of civic revolution.
If that would happen in the USA, self sufficiency would become a MUCH greater need than it's presently seen as.

The latest H1N1 fear campaign has me really starting to think that someone, somewhere is starting to size up large segments of society (if not the world, since it's "pandemic") for that nose ring I mentioned before.

T3rr0rism is a fairly recently coined term for what may have been otherwise been called revolutionary or freedom fighter. It evokes fear intrinsically from the base of it's name, being a term for extreme fear. Look at what freedoms you have lost because of recent "t3rr0rist" acts.
Remember the anthrax scare in the USA, and where it was ultimately reasoned it could have come from?
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/terroranthraxlinkedus.html    and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

The best advice I can think of is, THINK! Don't react in a knee jerk fashion.

It's been pointed out many times that the best way to control large parts of society is to keep them reacting to more and more fears (whether real, or manufactured) until they stop thinking and only react. Then they look to someone to tell them what to do instead of reasoning intelligently.

Be like a boy scout and Be Prepared. Being prepared assumes careful thought and planning.

Just because I have a first aid kit doesn't mean I expect I'll be using it.
But if I do need it , it's very nice that I thought about it and was prepared.

Think about what I said and please believe me when I tell you that I'm not trying to add another fear to the huge amount "news" tells us about everyday.

I'm just giving you something to think about and be prepared for.

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@exxcomm0n

Extremely thoughtful statement, well said.

The importance of exercising reason rather that falling into a purely reactionary response to adversity is that one remains in control of one's individual actions rather than submitting to that of 'herd' mentality, which leads, as you so aptly put, to the 'nose ring' syndrome.

Tony
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