Suggestion: language warning

Posted by Nalicter on Jul 31, 2008; 2:07am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Suggestion-language-warning-tp661558.html

Suggestion:
I would like to suggest that forums give warnings (above the message body) if their posts contain any foul language (or rather give forum owners the ability to enable this on particular forums).

This is like what critters.org does for its mailing list of stories/chapters to critique. It's quite nice for critique forums—so people don't have to read stuff they'd rather not critique on account of language. They also give word counts and other such, but the language thing is all I'm meaning to suggest.

Now, I would just suggest that users have a language filter option in their personal settings that they can turn on/off, but that would give people an excuse to swear more, and I'd still rather not critique things with foul language (even if I don't see it—because then people who don't know about the filter might think I support/read that sort of thing and all).

Anyway, my suggestion would be helpful for me, as currently I have to tell them in the forum rules (which tell them to warn us if there is foul language), and hope they read/comply with them—which doesn't always happen. It would save a lot of time, hassle, and concern, I think, to automate it.

[Feel free to let me know if you're another user who would appreciate this feature.]—this is where a poll would be handy. :)