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Re: Competitor's Auto-Censor Going Berserk at WGT Mention

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Tue, Sep 1 2009 12:58 PM (2 replies)
  • Faterson
    2,902 Posts
    Tue, Sep 1 2009 9:34 AM

    Hi, this is just to make everyone smile. As you probably know, I've thus far reported quite a few bugs related to this forum's functionality. Well, if you can believe it, TWO's forums, despite being based on the standard phpBB software package, are even less satisfactory. They feature a tiny font you can hardly read; nearly identical avatar pictures for all forum posters, so it's hard to tell folks apart and see who's talking to whom; there are no email notifications whatsoever; and the Active Threads and My Discussions links do not exist either.

    Something happened to me there earlier today that I think might amuse you. I wanted to post a comment to our WGT-on-TWO group of players, saying "this site's forum is at least 5 times as bad" as the other one... but TWO's chat software wouldn't allow me to post the comment, claiming it contained profanity (which it didn't: not the merest suggestion of it)!    I tried something like 20 times, inserting asterisks into every single word – to no avail. I finally succeeded in submitting the comment after cutting it up into nine pieces, after replacing WGT by that other site and but by yet. I had no idea but was nowaydays considered an offensive word, but it appears to be too close to butt for some people's sensitivities.    A certain fellow WGT player of ours who likes to extol the virtues of her, I mean his (well, whosever!) butt occasionally, might not be allowed to do so in the TWO environment!  

    Here, for your enjoyment, is a screenshot capturing the battle with the auto-censor (click thumbnail for full size):

     

    On a very positive note, a TWO forum moderator has already replied to a thread I started to point out the forum deficiencies, saying they will try and improve the situation.  

  • Crusty56
    136 Posts
    Tue, Sep 1 2009 10:34 AM

    Makes you wonder what that sight will be like after two years of construction and a year of public testing. Or if it will even take that long to produce a non-beta  product.

  • nivlac
    2,188 Posts
    Tue, Sep 1 2009 12:58 PM

    I ran into that problem with the word 'suck'. :P

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