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Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by akdor1154 »

searchableguy wrote: post #72
IgorPartola wrote: post #66

As a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that? I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this wa…

While I am not for any kind of censorship, if someone doesn't know swear words, would they be able to use them? Is swearing orthogonal to human nature? I had known few kids who didn't know what swearing was and they never did anything similar to swearing. Is there value in swearing? If not, what's the argument for letting kids learn about it? It's an interesting thought. Would limiting the vocabulary lead to people e…

Tangential, but I recall a pop sci write up of a paper that claimed the experience of pain was lessened if the experiencer was allowed to swear. Fact-checking this claim is left as an exercise for the reader, sorry.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by jawns »

IgorPartola wrote: post #66

As a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that? I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this wa…

Around middle school, I decided that I would stop using swear words, because it seemed like getting myself in trouble by letting one slip out at an inappropriate time was more of a bother than just avoiding them and coming up with more inventive ways to express myself.

Refraining from curse words has been part of my character ever since, and just about everybody who knows me knows that I don't swear. And you know what? I have never missed those words. I have some of the most foul-mouthed friends you can imagine, and the words don't shock or scandalize me. They're just not a part of my vocabulary.

I have never, so far as I know, suffered a single negative consequence because I don't curse. But the benefits have gone far beyond never getting detention at school or grounded by my parents because of the use of salty language. For instance, it's led me to stretch myself creatively when I really need to express exasperation or any other strong emotion. And it's led me to notice that some swear words, far from being innocuous, can be really debasing, and to have empathy for those on the receiving end.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by agustif »

StavrosK wrote: post #76
encypruon wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't find it now, but there was a post on HN where someone shared a report regarding their social media activity. It was compiled by a firm that offers to "research" potential employees. If I remember correctly, it included a twitter account that was not obviously linked to the persons name. There was an entry for every (re-)tweet that contained swearing, associated with a negative score. Also, if you're swearing…

I don't doubt that this happens, but I think so much less of someone that would go into my Twitter and assign a negative ranking to each swearword in an effort to compile a metric of "me", that I wouldn't want to do business with them. In that regard, adding more motherfucking swearwords in my bullshit comments serves as a great fucking way to deter any asshole cunt that thinks such metrics are a good goddamn idea. D…

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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by flurdy »

I once worked for an online game aimed at children. With some limited messaging and a forum, we needed to automatically filter swearing especially when it started to reach millions of users.

The initial limited English only blacklists were useless. Kids are creative and terrible. So we replaced with big processes of failover with several external swearword filtering services. Costly...

But kids are creative..., they write single letter messages that circumvent any automated filtering. Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc. This font might have reduced the need for filtering. But kids are creative...

Thankfully it was not instant messaging. Direct near-instant messaging came in later products... Car-crash every time. Never write a messaging app for kids. There is always a mean-time-to-dickpick or worse.

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