Joe...just for clarity's sake, what is your precise proposal about the default filter? Do you mean that people could post using any language they wish, but I would not even see the thread unless I turned OFF the filter? Or do you mean that bawdy titles would somehow be 'fixed' with a search & replace action...changing 'fuck' to 'f**k'.?

I would prefer the latter in some form, so that I am not required to use a filter to know the basic content of the threads. I, personally, am not 'offended' by langauge, nor do I have small children...etc.... I DO favor reasonable good taste, but even that is not the issue, as it can't be defined easily.

I suppose that if watchfulness of clones and/or an automatic asterisk inserter is not feasible, then the default filter is the next best thing. It will be interesting to see how it is worked out.