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Originally Posted by 5thStreetHog
This is absurd.
What does verbally attacking other players have to do with poker and or being a poker player?
You guys are really worried about profanity filters?
I mean, who cares? Do you really need to whine in chat about suckouts or berate bad players for sucking out?
If a recreational player decides to put a few bucks online to play poker after work and the profanity filter stops some ******* from calling her a ********** and causing her to quit its worth it.
I don't insult anyone, and I don't especially want to be insulted. But the fact is that it happens, especially in live games when someone has too much to drink.
Given that reality, and the fact that most people don't handle that as well as I do (especially when family or race is brought into it, both of which I've seen, both live and online) I have an edge. Successful players are always looking for an edge, whether by studying more, good table selection, or not tilting in a situation where other players will.
As far as profanity filters, IMO they do more harm than good. I don't whine about suckouts. I don't even want the other players to know whether I know what a suckout is. That's not the point.
As shown in my example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S****horpe_problem
profanity filters cause all kinds of problems. People have been blocked when trying to read about breast cancer. An "offensive" word or character string can be blocked, wiping out city names (the letters 2 through 5 in "S****horpe", for example.) A common name like "D i c k" can be blocked. "F u c k i n g" (pronounced foo as in fooey, followed by king) is a city in Austria. Imagine what fun the residents of that city have with profanity filters!
Profanity filters come with unintended consequences, and are a lot more trouble than they are worth.