Current News June 22, 2009

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Nelly Darkpaine

Now if we could get our linked accounts back, they could eliminate the cause of all the bad language.

Lol good point, or if we actually got a useful update!

Anyway I think the filter system was fine the way it is and that we are more in need of NEW CONTENT than some lousy warning system. It seems to me POTCO is avoiding releasing new content by getting all these small useless things out.

[toanuju22]

well there is only one thing i can say with out getting banned from the forums
and that is im probably going to get banned from this sometime this month

[ninety3rd]

I hope this doesn't get me banned from the forums!
;-)

I agree with the filter, and I also wonder as do some others just "what" words are considered bad language? (The old George Carlin routine on "dirty words" explains the really well known ones.)
I also wonder how strident the filter will be in also detecting acronyms of euphemisms? For example, good ol' Jiminy Cricket will have to banned from POTCO. Why?
"Jiminy Cricket(s)!" was originally a polite expletive euphemism for Jesus Christ. The name of the character is a play on the exclamation (which itself was uttered in Pinocchio's immediate predecessor, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Another example occurs in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. When the group first enters the Wizard's chamber, they are startled by the Wizard's sudden thunder-and-lightning display, and Dorothy (Judy Garland) cries, "Oh! Oh! Jiminy Crickets!" Another time it is used is in the short 1938 cartoon starring Mickey Mouse "The Brave Little Tailor".
I'm just sayin'....
Be that as it may, on a related topic which others here have voiced, I understand the problem with numbers but does POTCO understand the problem this creates on the flip side? i.e.; One trying to explain to another player some basic game functions, or even normal conversational phrases -- "one day I will get to level 40", "it takes two to tango", "two's company but three's a crowd", and I suppose Abe Lincoln would have to just shut up: "Four score and seven years ago..."

[Jack Sharkbane]

Originally Posted by khowar30

For starters Disney has no right to put any filter on this game. the last time i checked the US Bill of Rights written in 1789 all US Citizens had the right to say what they want when they want and where they want. not to mention that their TOS is on go.com which is not controlled by disney, whence is illegal.

*AHEM*

1789: 220 years ago.

*220 years later..*

Look. if ya dont like their rules, dont play the game. if your complaining about the rules in a game which THEY DESIGNED FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT, be my guest. but to have a rant about what you can and cant say in THEIR HOME, I gotta object. My words of wisdom?

Let it be.