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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hmm... perhaps a parental control feature to ban certain words pertaining to racism or vulgar comments? This isn't to ban freedoms, but there can be two dimensions of saidit. A logical fact-based discussion side and a nasty, insulting side filled with expletives. Of-course calls for violence should still be forbidden site-wide. And users can be in control of what type of content can be blocked or not.

Might be something cutting edge, if it could be worked out.

[–]Penelope 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Don't you already live in enough of an information bubble? On one hand you're talking about filtering vulgar speech, on the other you're talking about filtering ideas. Many fact based discussions can end in shit talking at some point anyway, so separating that would be hard.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good point! I'm just brainstorming but you could have a filter that replaces vulgar or negative words with harmless variations of it. In this way, ideas don't have to get filtered.

Edit: Of-course, there are ways around everything. But in so far as developing features, something like that could be tested and perfected over time. May even help with keeping this place more civilized?