Maybe eBay needs to be approached about the moderation team they have appointed.  You have to be 18 to be a member here (or supposed to be) yet they are treating us like minors. 

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@*pepe wrote:

mods this does not belong on an obscure board used to ask questions about trading, it belongs where i posted it - on the community spirit board.

it is a relevant discussion

 

please move it back.

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That's what made me mad.  The rest of the comment must be telepathically read  😄

+1 what pepe said.

but you can say raped? I think

Testing

yes, you can!

it was bleeped out for another poster back on CS where this thread also belongs

**bleep**

raped

rapes

testing

so, only the noun? is bleeped......makes sense...NOT

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@poddster wrote:

The solution is very very very simple.

 

All that has to be done is a minor adjustment to the profanity filter file.

 

Even thought the solution is simple and would take all of 10 seconds to apply, I am guessing that it will be a committee decision with endless discussion and it will be deferred indefinitely, put in the "too hard" basket and forgotten

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it should never have been added to the filter in the first place.
what kind of person considers r ape a naughty word like c rap for instance?