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  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    It makes me laugh that you can't say S C U N T H O R P E
  • JayZed
    JayZed Posts: 731 Forumite
    I don't understand why the following words are banned:

    !!!!
    !!!!
    !!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    They all seem to me to be perfectly acceptable words, especially the last one. Can anyone enlighten me? Do they have rude connotations?
  • Edinburghlass_2
    Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,680 Forumite
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    Thats easy, its because they are all !!!!!!!!

    :)
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    !! !! !!!!!! !!!!!!!!!. !!!!!! !! !!! !! :)
  • boombap
    boombap Posts: 765 Forumite
    Lol, on some sites night-watch-man is banned. Remove the hyphens and you'll see why ;)

    S.
  • davetrousers
    davetrousers Posts: 5,862 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    The American spelling of pedofile gets through
    .....

  • DARD_2
    DARD_2 Posts: 2 Newbie
    Banned mean closed or finished.
  • squee wrote: »
    Lol, on some sites night-watch-man is banned. Remove the hyphens and you'll see why ;)

    S.

    I don't get it :confused::o
  • jamtart6
    jamtart6 Posts: 8,302 Forumite
    edited 11 July 2009 at 11:54AM
    when quoting a poster called "rufusd!!!2" the system puts !!! in the latter part - I have no idea why? e.g rufusd!!!2

    Only happens when you quote though

    :ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A

  • jago25_98
    jago25_98 Posts: 623 Forumite
    fermi wrote: »
    That was one of the keywords that the nutcase yahoo/mafia/porn spammer we had a while back was using. So I think that is why it was added to the forum word filter.

    A lot of the other seemingly strange choices for banned words may well be because they frequently turned up as part of spam links/posts in the past.

    ^ but doing so doesn't stop the spam, only the blocked word. The rest of the post remains there. Good idea but I don't think it fully explains it. Perhaps it was done in error thinking it would block them?
    Order of events: Banks lose our money -> get bailed out -> were inflating GBP to cover it -> now taxing us -> next will grab your funds direct -> things get really desperate to balance the books. What should have happened?: banks go bust and we lost our money much quicker
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