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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-06-29 09:34
Apparently all the filters on Neopets have gone down and the mods are on vacation or just don't care.
Of course being the mature community that Neopets is the boards are full of people posting nudes, porn, having cybersex, and all sorts of other things.
I just found it amusing and wanted to share. :thumb:
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Maenad wrote on 2015-06-29 13:01
I feel like you're attempting to draw in more people.
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Kyishi wrote on 2015-06-29 14:32
That's not amusing at all.
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Yoorah wrote on 2015-06-29 14:59
That sounds kind of hilarious, actually. I always thought that Neopets was dumb--even as a kid, so idk much about this whole thing. xd
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Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-06-29 15:14
Maybe it's an experiment. Sounds fun!
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-06-29 18:48
Quote from Maenad;1280292:
I feel like you're attempting to draw in more people.
Even if I was apparently their staff woke up because the boards got shut down right as I posted this. Lol.
Quote from Kyishi;1280298:
That's not amusing at all.
Yep. It was preeeetty funny.
Quote from Yoorah;1280300:
idk much about this whole thing. xd
Basically, despite the majority of Neopets population being adults, and despite them having previously said they wanted to cater more towards their adult audience, Neopets chatboards have such strict filters you can't even say poop. Poop is among the banned words. This makes normal conversation difficult because they don't even censor things, they just won't let you post at all if your post contains any of the "bad" words. You can't even discuss some of their own items because they contain banned words. They apply this same filtering to the private messages, and also monitor the private messages for any offsite information, because they don't want anyone exchanging any sort of contact information so they can have conversations in places where poop isn't banned.
So when the filters went down/mods were off duty/whatever happened everyone went batshit insane after years of being pent up and exploded all over the boards.
Quote from Campylobacter jejuni;1280301:
Maybe it's an experiment. Sounds fun!
I thought the same thing. Like, "What if this was a test to see if the community was mature enough to handle not having filters? Ya'll just fucked it up."
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Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-06-29 19:58
Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1280315:
So when the filters went down/mods were off duty/whatever happened everyone went batshit insane after years of being pent up and exploded all over the boards.
That's why you don't do abstinence sex education!
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-06-29 21:07
Other words you can't say because they contain the same letters as a bad word include - uncle, amusement park, grape, document, basement, skills, seaweed, cracker, analyze, circumstance, cucumber, gay... I could go on for hours.
Oh, and if your post has one of the thousands of banned words in it they just erase your entire post without even telling you which word was the bad one. So imagine typing out some huge multi-paragraph guide or story or whatever, then the whole thing gets deleted because you said amusement park. And you don't even KNOW amusement park was the bad part because there's nothing wrong with it, so you type it up again only to have it deleted a second time. Now you must either give up or go through deleting each word one at a time hoping to find the one that is triggering it.
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Maenad wrote on 2015-06-29 21:26
In my experience, if a service, like a forum, is shitty, I leave and find a better one. I don't keep using it.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-06-29 21:35
Quote from Maenad;1280325:
In my experience, if a service, like a forum, is shitty, I leave and find a better one. I don't keep using it.
I'm not using it. I just know their dumbass rules. Even when I did play Neopets years ago it was just for the games, not the "community"
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Maenad wrote on 2015-06-29 21:50
Sounds familiar.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-06-29 22:02
Does it? It doesn't sound familiar to me. Must not be anyone I know.
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Splatulated wrote on 2015-06-29 23:59
Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1280287:
Apparently all the filters on Neopets have gone down and the mods are on vacation or just don't care.
Of course being the mature community that Neopets is the boards are full of people posting nudes, porn, having cybersex, and all sorts of other things.
I just found it amusing and wanted to share. :thumb:
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lol
they also got rid of profile page
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Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-06-30 11:07
That last sentence though... are they openly belittling their customer base?!
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Iljimae wrote on 2015-06-30 15:23
Neopets changed ownership last year if I recall and a few months ago a lot of the staff was laid off.
The problems happening probably relate back to the problems caused by the new ownership.