Cultural Differences and Forum Moderation

Do I have to change one of my advertised MA arcs to "Attack of the Robot Warriors from Mongolia"?

tbh it's not as catchy.

Just checked my bio since it needs updating [btw there needs to be a message system for friends request, didnt realise i had one waiting] and my occupation [at the time] ******* manager has been turned into ******* manager? How can ******* be filtered there?

******* = train ee

you train-svestite, damz! (seriously, I seen him once, outside Atlas Monorail station doing...something!)

now, Coin, while the identity of the Batman may be for another forum, I'm still adjusting to our new surroundings, so let me say, that while **** may be a very different Batman to Bruce, he has the potential to be even better than his mentor. Also, the costume probably isn't the only thing he's kept warm for him over the years.

edit: ****, ****, ****, ****, ****! How many ****'s is that?

Can we say bugger and bollox?

On a more serious note, my main concern is not so much linguistic differences, but cultural ones, especially where quasi-politica/religiousl views may be expressed, which will inevitably come up for discussion. Choosing some topics off the top of my head, just for examples could be gun control, death penalty, socialised medical care etc - subjects which most people on either side of the debate do seem to hold to their hearts and can lead to lively discussion.

Putting some of those subjects in the CoX Context I'm thinking things like the Clockwork King's origin (& Blue Steel's involvement in that) could be somewhat polarising, as maybe Frostfire's origin might do.

That, more than words, might cause the odd burst of steam leak from collars both sides of the pond, but equally, I firmly believe that we must not be afraid of discussing potentially difficult subjects because that is what mature debate is all about and to stifle that renders any forum discussion rather pointless.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

QR - I can't see the mods allowing a thread celebrating St Davids Day to stay, myself. It's nothing at all to do with CoH. However, the Brits now around me couls shed some light on wether or not that sort of stuff was tolerated on the old EU boards?

Eco.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

My favourite brushes with the bleeper were when somebody asked what level the badguys were, so I typed 45s where the filter read the 4 as an A and the 5 as an S.

Also Virgin are one of the largest ISPs in the UK and that got bleeped ingame in a discussion on outages. Not sure if it still is, PMd ex about it ages ago.