TOS Question

[Parker]

I have this shoutbox on my forum and some members have been saying to turn the language filtes off, but im afraid i will be breaking a Proboards TOS rule. My question is, is it ok if i do so?

[california]

Swearing in general is not against the TOS. It is only when it elevates to the level of abusiveness, hatred or obscenity that it comes into question. Just use PG-13 as a guideline. If it were a movie would the language alone earn it an R rating? Then you probably need to back down on the swearing a bit. Whether it's censored or not isn't really the issue, because even if the words are obscured the meaning and intention is still there, and that is what matters.

[saralyn2]

I had the same problem. I turned it off and took the word blocks off cuz my members promised not to sware and 2 days later they were saying some nasty nasty nasty things...every word in the book. I had to ban 12 people cuz of it...It was awful...form experience I suggest you leave it all blocked...
They can sware it just won't show let em' know that