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Thread #80733   Message #1474480
Posted By: George Papavgeris
29-Apr-05 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Objection to Bawdy Song Titles in Forum Menu
Subject: RE: Objection to JohnMehlberger
I too wish that John would use more discression out of consideration of those being blocked by their system's "profanity filters". Or simply out of consideration for those among us (me included) who for cultural or whatever reasons are offended seeing such words in the title.

But what if he wants to be inconsiderate and continue? In such case, I do not advocate that we block him altogether. I would prefer Joe and the clones to edit such titles by adding some prefix that we could use easily for ignoring such messages (Susan, I know I can use individual words for that in the filter, but how many? I would have to think ahead of the next distasteful use of a word; it's a losing game).

However, Joe made it clear that he does not wish to edit the titles; OK, his decision. I'll have to live with that.

It does strike me that John's choice of forum for researching such songs is not a good one though. We already said that such songs do not get aired in folk clubs or the usual folk music circles; surely he should be researching among Army Veterans and Rugby clubs?