Ain't that the truth and the filtering is nothing compared to the heavy handed moderators on Steam. I've never seen a forum with so many banned users on it. Maybe they all deserved it but somehow I doubt that.

It is best not to have any sort of discussions on Steam really. Steam game specific forums can be of use in finding out about game issues or getting some help fixing them at times. Beyond that, the oppressive moderation and filtering makes it worthless for discussions. Although I have not been banned yet at least, maybe because I post rarely now, I find the moderators on Steam offensive.

It's used to provoke other users. Results in trolling and flaming. So they censored it. If people used the word "kitten" to troll and flame to the point that a lot of people were getting banned over it, you can bet that too would be censored. That's the nature of forums where the majority of the users are immature.

Things that don't exist/never happened:

1) Tienanmen Square
2) The Holocaust
3) Chris Benoit
4) The Moon Landing
5) Obama's Hawaiian birth.
6) Beothuk Indians slaughter
7) Christ's birth
8) Detainment of Japanese Canadians/Americans by their respective governments during WWII.
9) The Dark Knight becoming the highest grossing film ever.
10) The electric car.

Really? I don't know about now but that whole incident was always brought up and talked about in
every history class I had when it came time to study World War 2 among other things..

Umm, what??? I do agree with you though, I play games because the same way as with books I´m transported to the worlds they depict.

But when I commented before, that it depends on the "adult" I was referring to the slogan you wrote, since not all adults are "adults", nothing to do with playing games or not, but with behaviour. Maybe the word "adult" is just a wrong concept, adults seem to be just grown up children to me. It´s just that some are well behaved grown up children, while others are not. ; )

Should have tried "genitaliazing the crossbow", seriously though, I don´t think some words are censored on the basis of "wrongness"(like foul words or colloquial words that are usually used for insults), but in the case of calling anatomically correct human body genitalia what it is, I think they do it in the hopes of deter even grammatically correct insults ; P, because if it´s not, that would be just beyond the intelligence of mankind to understand why. I think it´s more of a babysitting stance.
But as it has been said, GOG´s forum is the proof that you don´t need babysitting as long as you are dealing with mature people, doesn´t matter age, it´s about education and character. I have yet to see the kind of offensive behaviour you see in other sites, here on GOG and that speaks lots for this forum.

The only other place I've ever seen "nazi" censored was Runescape, which also censors words like "naked" and "bra". Surely we don't need as much babysitting from Valve as Jagex provides its users.

Reminds me of the Paradox Official Forums. They were some of the most censor-happy bastards you'd ever have the misfortune to meet.

The beautiful world of the Valve forums doesn't know any evil. Evil doesn't exist if you don't (can't) talk about it.

And that's why SPUF are such a nice place to frequent, right?

It's not DRM if we say it isn't!

how about having some sense and not discussing potentially offensive subject matters on friggin' gaming websites?!? you know damn well how little it takes for a casual discussion to become an insulting flamefest. when you're running a service with 6 million concurrent users online, you're bound to have some strict rules or things would go overboard very quickly.

i simply don't understand why people come to gaming websites of all places to discuss matters of politics and other, more serious discourses.

I don't think he was meant to be serious. It's just a list of things someone, anyone in the world is wholeheartedly denying it ever existed, for whatever reason.

Yeah, but 'fanboy' is the equivalent of taunting someone with 'If you love it so much, why don't you marry it?'. It's harmless sarcasm.

It didn't start out as a political discussion. We were talking about the underutilisation of certain monochrome and 'film grain' graphic modes in games to simulate the experience of watching older movies.

On another forum, there's some filtering to keep it PG-ish. "Cock" becomes "THROBBING LOVE PUMP", "bitch" becomes "aggressive go-getter", "shit" is asterisked out, and "fuck" is changed to "I'M TOO DUMB TO FIND OTHER WORDS TO USE SO I USE THE F WORD ".

Although it leaves them alone if they're part of a longer word, ege. "cocking", "shithead" etc.