The AARP Host has a track record of trying to
"explain" his poor decisions and unfair moderation.
This time is no different.
http://community.aarp.org/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1538&tid=28536&webtag=rp-issues
From:AARPHost (p-1575309752)
Jun-29, 2006 7:35 PM
28536.1544
Reply to 28536.1522
To:Old Fart (oldfart28)
(1544 of 1549)
You wrote:
Please consider these facts:
1. Up to this point, the board has been using this word(s)
since the beginning of time.
Checking with our previous filth filter shows that this is not
the case. As posted earlier today, the word in contention here
was part of the filth filter prior to the upgraded message
board.
AARP Community Host
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BUT it wasn't. Consider a search of the AARP board:
http://community.aarp.org/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=search&webtag=rp-issues&showSearchForm=y
Search Results You searched for ... sucks
Results ... 298 messages, 1 - 50 displayed
That search goes back to at least 2003 so obviously the word
"sucks" was not a part of the filth filter prior to
the recent changeover in board software a few weeks ago.
This is just one more example of the AARP moderators pulling
things out of thin air in order to try to cover their butts.
In short, on more than one occasion they have been known to
lie
There are some words which are on the AARP filth list. For
example, the word tit in the expression tit-for-tat
automatically will be ####ed out by the autocensor. So was the
word "hell" and the use of "he!!".
However, there are plenty of words that surprisingly are not.
For example the word "whore". The reason some words
are not on the autocensor is so the moderators selectively can
censor for the words. For example, if moderators don't like
something that is said about Bush or Republicans, they will
selectively censor and censor the entire post with the excuse
that a "filthy" word was used. If they don't think
they can get away with censoring the entire post (because in
the past the poster has fought back), they will censor only
the word. But later on they will use the censoring of one
word as an excuse for banning the poster from the board.
BTW, most of the posters on the AARP board refer to the
autocensor as the autocensor. It speaks volumes that the
moderator refers to it as a "filth filter".