It's always been pathetic. It's just now that someone in charge realized it.

If the filter is meant to protect younger users and keep the forums clean, then why does the filter replace a swearing word with (-)? It's obvious that the user swear and in most cases you can guess what was filtered. That doesn't seen very clean to me.

In the TWC community, www.thewarcenter.com, our filter replaces swearing words with funny and hilarious words, so if someone freaks out swearing it would turn into one of Tickbot's RSG messages as their swearings are replaced with sentences like "Evil kitty" and "Wild monkey love". Also, words are NOT filtered in URLS.

It would also be nice if the moderation would stop filtering examples in such discussion. It's really stupid and makes the subject harder to discuss.