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I just noticed a reply of mine has been censored. The word i used is '***es' which is well known and commonly used throughout the world as another word for.....'complains'.Quite frankly, what is wrong with that word? I never expected this site to be so superficial that it would censore an expression like that. Political correctness gone mad. I think my next preferred destination is..........another planet, where common sense prevails.

Yeah it's a silly little relic of a handmade system. Don't take it too hard...there are some especially silly elements. You can always write 'b.itches"

All the best,

Giampiero

Hi Tony,

This is Courtney, staff member and forum moderator and I just wanted to help clarify your concern. I didn't actually see the post, but if you look in the user agreement, it does say that we do not allow obscenity. Of course, it sometimes get by, but we do our best to see that it doesn't. I know the word doesn't seem like a big deal, but it puts forum moderators in a little bit of a "Catch-22" position. If we don't delete it, someone will complain, if we do delete it, someone will complain. Ultimately, we try to stick as best we can to the user agreement, which, in this case, would mean deleting the post.

I promise we're not trying to censor members--we want you to feel free to say what you have to say, but at the same time, we want to make sure the forums stay clean and comfortable for everyone.

Hope that clarifies things!
Courtney

Ah yes, I think it is very funny. I have a page on a French village called B.itche. And there I can see that VT censors itself because B.itche is in the database and on my Travel Pages list (spelled correctly and not censored) but when you make a page the automatic title (generated by VT) is censored: "A citadel and an auberge." a ***e Travel Page by ATLC. Hahahaha!

Thank you all for your replies. I'm just sort of fed up , since with all the madness. Here in Sydney last xmas, they banned Santa Claus people from saying ....Ho,Ho,Ho. ,
( because of the USA meaning of those two letters.) One Santa Claus guy who refused to go along with it ,got fired. Its madness..........Beam me up........

Now you have me curious. Explain! :)

I agree with you. I enjoy the odd expletive myself...

In the UK we don't use that word in its sense of complaining very much (if at all). It is, however, frequently used as an offensive comment towards women.

So I can understand why the auto-cenosr picked it up (and it made me laugh when the recent travel forum question about the French town got well-and-trul censored!).

It could be worse: on another site I peruse there are issues with words such as 'institution'....it's the letter combination within the word which apparently makes the auto-censor cross!

Here in Sydney they have a chain of department stores called ....Myers. I suppose its like WalMart in the US or ....can't think of the Europe equivalent....maybe like Carrefors but give all the food stuff to some poor country and put in lots of clothes, shoes, perfume etc etc....wait a minute...El Cortes Ingles in Barcelona. Anyway, at xmas they hire people who have a well developed waistline and dress then up as Santa Claus in a red suit with a white beard, to greet the shoppers and kids and have photos taken. Its been happening no problem since the Big Bang, Noahs Ark, Roman Empire, Viking days, etc etc.They have been greeted with...'HO HO HO'....and everyone loves it. But last year some wacked out pea brain decided to ban Santa from greeting everyone by saying...'HO HO HO'. They were ordered to say HA HA HA instead. WHY??????? because there are a few mentally challenged oxygen thiefs in the USA who walk around in baggy trousers and say BRO all the time, who sometimes call women by the same words...HO. So that pea brained moron decided it was derogatory and banned Santa Claus from saying it.. That's how crazy its getting. Pluto is looking really good.

This is a really funny question for a non English speaker. I think that the censored b**** word, translated into my language (Portuguese) is p***. You may find it in VT in the Domocratic Republic of Congo, Luapula Province in Zambia, and Baki Sahari province in Azerbaijan, and composed in other places. That p*** lady lives selling her c*** (Tibet, Eritrea, or Veneto, in Italy).

No deeper investigation, but I had fun!

I understand and acept VT concerns, but things are so relative in the broad world...

I shall never forget that red Ferrari driving around in London, with a British license plate stating three letters LUL and a series of numbers.
Now, let's see what the VT censoring makes of that...

Well then, it seems we'll have to revert to non-English rude words to dodge the automatic censoring, hahaha!

cochon bleu

There was this discussion three months ago:
http://forum.virtualtourist.com/discussion-410367-1-1-Miscellaneous-0-0-World-discussion.html#answerID_2849427

Let me just repost what I wrote there
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Well in Spanish they use the inverted exclamation mark ¡ [alt 0161]
So you could use t¡ts instead, if you're that desperate. I wonder what happens to letters with diacritics:
i + acute [alt 0237] í títs
i + grave [alt 0236] ì tìts
i + diaresis [alt 0239] ï tïts

Even if it works, how do you search on it?
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I suppose we could use all sorts of accented characters too, to represent the other vowels.

I prefer plain '***'. Hahaha!

If Santa Claus posts something with us I promise not to take it down! ;)

ho ho ho