Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4619254-20150923075913/@comment-4266719-20150923225640

Captain Ned Edgewalker wrote: WaglingtonŒ wrote: In response to Jeremiah - regarding the whole fanon thing, I honestly don't see a reason to restrict creative freedom at all. We're a much more diverse wiki than we ever have been and writers can choose from a myriad of games to work off of. We've moved past the days of flinching at the slightest sign of a little curse word. Though I personally never use profanity in any of my stories, I don't see a bad side to giving the writers full creative freedom (within reason...) to their own stories.

That being said, comments are a different issue. Unless I read your post wrong, Ned, a simple page banner at the top of a blog doesn't really change the fact that comments will still be broadcasted in Activity. The entire idea is a bit hazy - instead of the comment itself appearing, it just shows text from said banner? Please elaborate because I don't think we're able to do that, especialy with MediaWiki down.

Okay, so, the idea isn't to remove the comment from activity, the idea is to censor the comment in activity with a pagebanner & then put said words below the pagebanner, thus making the swear words not appear in activity, but rather making the words from the pagebanner appear in activity. And, MediaWiki shouldn't be an issue for templates such as userboxes & pagebanners.

If you want to go try it, go put a pagebanner or a userbox in the comments of a blog post, then take a look at activity. You'll notice that the words from the pagebanner are put into activity, and the idea is to make the pagebanner long enough so that the activity feed cannot show the full comment, thus censoring the swear word.

Hope this clears things up. It was late at night pls don't judge me

thx

even tho it was late at night you still made it