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Hi guys, I saw a lot of people doing this, and thought I'd come out and say this outright.

Even if you use stars, hashtags or remove letters from a slur, it doesn't make it alright.

We still consider it as slur usage, and will use the same punishment as such. Purposefully bypassing the censorship system will also warrant additional warnings.

If you're from other forums, you might see this as soft - but we won't tolerate crude behavior on this site.

looksmaxxing culture is what we're trying to avoid at The Appearance Guide. We enforce policies based off of the exclusion of other users, e.g., using slurs, unnecessary insulting, talking about crude topics with the intent to be shocking or disturbing, gore/NSFW is not allowed, etc. All of these rules are put into place to let outsiders feel welcomed to join us and to learn about the concepts we want to talk about. These concepts only existed to keep people out on other sites, not to let people in.

Which is fine - Not everyone from these spaces are going to like this "radical" change from what they're used to, and a lot of people from these spaces have struggled to adapt to this concept. We're not made for everyone - We're trying to reach a demographic that wants to focus on self improvement, not all of this other stuff involved. A lot of people are on these sites are for the other ideological concepts, not solely self improvement, and they would have more benefit being on those sites instead of this one.
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You can read more about this here:

Flint

Notice Thread 'NEW USERS & LURKERS: Read This First'

Welcome to The Appearance Guide! Whether you're here to just look around or you're interested in registering, we recommend you read this post before doing anything.

What is The Appearance Guide?​

The Appearance Guide, is in short, a self improvement forum with the focus being on appearance related improvement - but if you're not interested in the appearance side of things, you're still more than welcome to join us and participate in our other categories.

I'm sure a lot of people have heard about the core ideological concept of the "redpill"/"blackpill" with the explosion of...
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God said:
Guide is it's own place, flint explained it well in his post. In reality all major sites don't loosely allow slurs.
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Correct, or at least most websites ban for "improper usage" of these slurs. (X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc) The censor is meant to reduce human moderator's involvement into having to warn for this kind of content, so intentionally bypassing it would just defeat the primary purpose of it, and what it's meant to be discouraging. .guide warns for bypassing the filter (1.3.2) or for using slurs in general (1.3.1), you do not actually need to direct them towards a specific user (1.3.4) for it to be warnable, though I haven't seen it be used in any context that wasn't directed towards another user to be honest.

I hope to have AI moderation added soon that will review posts and flag them for this kind of content, but it also means more posts would go under pending/the approval queue, and I'm not sure how scalable it would be for the future. But for when we're small like this I don't assume it's a big deal. It might be better to catch this content and reduce it's public visibility of it to force users to create a new reply without the word in it. Kind of how Discord blocks messages and "forces" the user to re-send the message without the word that got blocked.

On .guide, there's no real reason to be calling each other slurs, and if you're not able to explain your concept without using them then the limitation is you mainly and your ability to communicate. In my opinion at least. I'm also a grown man and not a teen boy on the internet, so I guess I grew up having gotten it out of my system by now.

The internet used to be a lot different when I was growing up. We had a lot of separation of adult vs kids spaces; on every adult space they didn't have to censor content just because the adults usually were responsible enough to be trusted, and on the kids spaces they were usually heavily censored. Now everything is always 13+ and the stuff that has combined <12 and 13+ experiences has problems with grooming, e.g., Roblox. Kind of weird to think about now because when I was a kid on Roblox, that shit was so censored you had a limited options of pre-written responses you could've used.

.Guide is meant to be 16+ to "reduce" the mixed age issues, but a lot of people from the BP spaces are quite young, so it's kind of hard to moderate sometimes. I've thought about accepting the L and lowering it back down to XenForo's default 13, but I don't know yet.
 
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God said:
Hi guys, I saw a lot of people doing this, and thought I'd come out and say this outright.

Even if you use stars, hashtags or remove letters from a slur, it doesn't make it alright.

We still consider it as slur usage, and will use the same punishment as such. Purposefully bypassing the censorship system will also warrant additional warnings.

If you're from other forums, you might see this as soft - but we won't tolerate crude behavior on this site.



You can read more about this here:

Flint

Notice Thread 'NEW USERS & LURKERS: Read This First'

Welcome to The Appearance Guide! Whether you're here to just look around or you're interested in registering, we recommend you read this post before doing anything.

What is The Appearance Guide?​

The Appearance Guide, is in short, a self improvement forum with the focus being on appearance related improvement - but if you're not interested in the appearance side of things, you're still more than welcome to join us and participate in our other categories.

I'm sure a lot of people have heard about the core ideological concept of the "redpill"/"blackpill" with the explosion of...
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Will not use slurs

Will not use slurs

Will not use slurs.


Okay im ready warn me the next time
 
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