Fun with Autocensors: Difference between revisions

* One ''[[The Sims]]'' fan forum replaces most swear words with "kleenex". It caused [[Scunthorpe Problem|a few problems]] early on, such as a "kleenex sword" in a post about medieval weapons, so the admins removed a lot of words with non-naughty meanings from the list. Forum regulars so rarely swear, though, that some people have posted for years without knowing there ''was'' a filter. (Those who ''do'' know about the filter will often [[Unusual Euphemism|type "kleenex" themselves]] on the rare occasions they feel like swearing.)

* ''[[Neopets]]'': Too bad if your RP character's wearing a bikini -- it'd inevitably get switched to "cardigan".

** Among other words censored are fork (which the mods eventually changed their minds about) and hot tub (changed to "swamp"). In guilds, apostrophes are often, but not always, censored. The icing on the cake? TVT, a nickname for the board mods (stands for The Viacom Team, expressing displeasure at the fact that the site was bought out by Viacom), is now changed to "my socks".

*** This one borders on [[Four Chan|4chan]] wordfiltering, where "emo" became "bosnian" and where "noes" became "exploitable"...

** The "suitably humorous alternative" to 'lol' -- "This cheese is burning me!" -- then became part of the forum's vocabulary. Posters will write "The cheese really burned me today" for a particularly funny strip, or "My cheese is lukewarm."

** Another set of filters included the word "filters", replaced with "cheesegraters". And replaced any instance of "also" with "ALSO YOU GUYS:". If you decide to ''actually type'' "ALSO YOU GUYS:", you end up with [[Department of Redundancy Department|"ALSO YOU GUYS: YOU GUYS:"]].

* The Talk About Comics forums will replace 'aroma' with 'Iron Maiden'; maybe because their music [[A Worldwide Punomenon|stinks]].

* The [[Survivor]] Sucks message board censors seemingly random words, such as "tears", "dudes", "petition", "ipod", "heart" and a bunch of random others. No actual curse words are censored.

* The forum for pro wrestling fan site Death Valley Driver converts "gay" to "manly beyond my wildest expectations" and, oddly, "product" to "stuffing instead of potatoes".

** Even odder, although perhaps due to prior overuse, the expression "Meh" now expands to "I take umbrage at your previous assertion but cannot be arsed to respond appropriately."

** "[[Memetic Badass|Chuck Norris]]" gets changed to "Allakhazam"

** "pageget" gets changed to "[[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]!"

** While the phrase "monk item" will prevent the posting from going through at all. (at least it did at one point.)

* The [[TV Tropes (Wiki)|TV Tropes]] forums filter "tl;dr" to "''laconic version:''". In the past they filtered it to "'''Sorry, I skipped some posts.'''", and earlier it was “I am too lazy, or possibly too incapable, to actually read anything. I resent the fact that this makes me seem like an inconsiderate person and hereby pledge to resume taking my ADHD medication.”

* On [[Warriors Wish]], words get censored to types of fruit, so you'll occasionally get people saying something like: "What a grapefruit blueberry!"

* Amongst other words, the Allspark [[Transformers]] board changes "fuck" to "hug". This, combined with the site's purple coloration, led to a small purple Micromaster called [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Roadhugger Road Hugger] becoming the site's mascot.

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