Ah ok, it seemed like you were angry at us or something lol.

Quote from: flyingfisch on May 02, 2013, 10:47:51 am

Now, I understand this all may be inconvenient for kids, but trust me, there is more to life than calculator forums, and which would you rather have, unlimited access to the internet during your teen years, or a clean life in the years to come? I, at least, would prefer the latter.

Yeah I know, but the issue is that some parents actually abuses those filters. Take JustCause and SirCmpwn for example: Their parents totally restricted access to every site those two people liked, one after another. If they found Sir visiting a site more and more, they blocked it, if he touched the BASIC editor on his calc, they took it away, and so on. His grades were quite good and he didn't neglect his life: In fact he was working for Microsoft! The problem is that his parents didn't like him at all, so they tried to make his life a living hell. On top of that they did not agree with him choosing programming as a carreer, so they tried to prevent him from doing any programming at all.

Filters are handy when used appropriately, but the problem is that some parents just abuse them, like in JustCause/SirCmpwn's case.

To the rest of omnimaga, I am not angry

Quote from: flyingfisch on May 02, 2013, 04:00:30 pm

Quote from: Dapianokid on May 02, 2013, 02:58:46 pm

Do not doubt my adept ability to hack. Doubt my ability to do what's right. Teach me to be better, not more devious. Give me God, not more foolishness. It's not a matter of how I get around it, it's whether or not I decide to. Anybody who WANTS to get around the love and care that parents put in place, is an idiot. I wouldn't want to know them. I think a parent who cares that much is already an above-average parent. The restrictions they put in place do not reflect the craziness or strictness of my parents, it reflects the person they restrict. So, the fact that they became this strict should reflect just how naughty I was being, not how mean they are. It's LOVE they are treating me with.

I had an experience pretty similar to yours, I think, and I agree with everything you said in that post. There is no age at which point a person magically becomes "mature". It is only through lessons and experience. The more you listen to your parent's wisdom the less you have to learn through hard experience.

It is really refreshing to read stefan bauwens' and Dapianokid's posts, I think it proves that faith and morals still exist. I don't feel that I am as isolated in my beliefs as I once thought.

To the rest of omnimaga, I am not angry, but I do have a request. Stop the swearing on OmnomIRC, and don't talk about sketchy things in posts. Even if most of omnimaga is "mature" enough to handle it, we shouldn't have it going on here. And I am not saying this because I don't want it blocked in schools or what not, I am saying it because I want to be able to browse omnimaga comfortably, without having to be afraid that I may see the F word in OmnomIRC, or immoral things mentioned in posts.

That may sound critical, but its just the way I see things right now. Let's straighten our act out. Are you with me?

I don't think this is much of a problem in general here, compared to before. Generally, only two or three people say the F word on a regular basis and they hardly ever post at all. The S word might come out a few more times but even then it's not that frequent, plus I even noticed some people censors themselves out of habit. Although I agree that swearing too much would be problematic for some people to browse the site, being afraid to post at all due to fear of being reprimanded every few time for saying a bad word by accident (that might offend 1 or 2 people on the site) is even worse. We have to give people some freedom so they're comfortable to post at all, else they'll just leave.

Also no one on this forum is gonna receive a special treatment based on his religion (or lack thereof). This is the Internet and using this forum is a privilege. It might suck for people who are religious, but if we start doing special favors to specific members just for that it is gonna get out of control.

Of course if swearing became abusive like on the other board and it got out of control, then word filters might be in order. I would recommend that if you find out a member swears too much that you report him to admins, though.

Just to clarify, I was not asking for  no swearing rule, I was just asking people to be considerate. If you don't want to be, then I understand.