where can we vent without being censored?

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just wondering

the haven? really just replace swear words with somthing elce and your good.

do they tolerate ****/****ing in every other sentence?

well communities that are known for misanthropism are generally more tolerant towards that kind of thing. although how they'll react depends on various factors.

I think we (aspies and auties) fixate on things that bother us and it is really theraputic to vent....or to let it out. I personally need someone to go on and on to about something that is bothering me or I will drive myself nuts and my anxiety, anger and frustration just rise to dangerous levels. My husband is usually the victim of my rants...he knows me and he knows the right time to let me go and the right time to give me advice. Sometimes there are people who will try to fix your problems when all you really want to do is just "talk".
The only reason Im responding to this is because I was really upset the other day and my husband is in France and I could not call him so I called my kids social worker....she was very nice and listened to me and understood.
Do you have no one who you can bounce your frustrations or problems off of that are not judgemental?

The swear word filter can be MacGyvered with ease, but if I tell you how, I'll just get banned.

I don't know. Almost every time I vent about something or someone getting treated badly here, I get warned. I'm finding out folks here are as mean to others as they accused NTs' of doing to them.

well, usenet groups I think. Like alt.suicide.holiday. There, people are free to swear (after all, no swear filter) and scream at how much they hate humanity or whatever. And they're not really moderate-able.

basically, anything that's sort of free from an organization/structure.

the one issue is that a lot of people on those places are sort of hardened to venting since so many people vent (often in the most extreme ways possible) that people at those places get numbed and more indifferent to it.

when i'm very angry, i do feel that those places are the only places where i could even go. most forums are "lawful" since they still recommend what authority recommends and discourage what authority discourages. But usenet groups are more "chaotic" and don't endorse an action. which is more fitting for those who are so angry that they've lost trust of practically everyone.

There is more leeway in the Adult Autism Issues forum in regards to subject matter, but if you try to recite George Carlin's monologue on words banned by the FCC, it ain't gonna fly on this site.

I wrote an extremely psychotic blog post relating to misanthropy (inspired greatly by Slipknot's Iowa album) on Tumblr. Hasn't gotten deleted by their mods yet. Then again, I've not had many views yet, but most places allow excessive swearing, including YouTube, Last.fm and other social networking sites.

Try that. Do it like I do and create a special venting-blog like my misanthropic one and promote it with a forewarning of inappropriate content.

Many forums I've been on are very tolerant about swearing, I think it's just because this place is a family-friendly site (if you're 17 I'd go into the Adult section and replace your letters with similar-looking numbers or symbols or add spaces in between).

why is there still censorship in the adult forum?

The Censor

The Censor sits
Somewhere between
The forums to be read
And readers on the world wide web
With finger poised over the delete button
Watching the human stuff
That will sizzle through
The magic wires
And light up
Like welding shops
The ho-hum rooms of America
And with a kindergarten
Arts and crafts concept
Of moral responsibility
xxxx's out
The rough talk
The unpopular opinion
Or anything with teeth
And renders
A pattern of ideas
Full of holes
A doily
For your mind

[apologies to mason williams]

"Censorship" is taking it a little too far. Everyone knows what words you mean to use, after all; and there is nothing that can be said with swear words that can't be said just as strongly without them. Censorship is more along the line of banning ideas, not words; and the only ideas that get banned around here are bullying, trolling, spam, threats, and the extreme forms of prejudice.

Bleeping out "strong" language is just a way to stop parents from banning their teenage Aspies from WP because they might read the "wrong" words.

We probably have censorship in the adult forum because there are simply global settings for the whole site.

I've had that....and then posters tell you that you should try harder to empathise with other posters feelings..... Hmmmm.... Aspie? Not empathising? Who would have thought it?

words ARE ideas. or at the very least, conceptual parts of them. it is censorship if you wish to express a particular stentorian emotion of which profanity is a flagship bearer, and it get's "XXXX"ed out or worse yet, gets a mod warning- the resultant prior restraint is the worst form of censorhip, IMHO. let us not simply whistle past the graveyard of civil liberties, IOW call it what it is- censorship - it doesn't matter if it is a totalitarian government official, network standards and practices lawyer or a website administrator, it is still the same thing. whole threads have been evaporated because they fell afoul of the personal whims of management. i am irritated with folk who curb my style and then deny they are curbing my style- this smacks of "peeing on my leg and then telling me that it's just raining." in summary, i'd have an easier time with it so long as it is openly acknowledged.



children should not be exposed to adult content, and 18 legally is no longer in the realm of childhood. so here's a suggestion- change the adult rating to 18, and let it all hang out. the MPAA and the lion's share of the world's movie rating systems believe that 18 is sufficiently advanced an age for people to make their own decisions of what is suitable material for reading or entertainment.
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