Smurfs?

yes, smurfs!


(please report any wrongly smurfed out words in the smurf error thread.)

we've just updated the forums to allow you to enable or disable our smurf filter on the boards.

in other words, the smurfs can be made to work as your personal language clean-up service.

for the most part the smurfs will be locked up, but if you're opposed to reading inappropriate content (and this is quite a small but serious list of words), the smurfs can be brought out of their hidey-hole to clean up.

yes, any time there's cursing/racism of a serious nature in a post, the smurfs will detect it and you'll see a tiny little button (next to the quote button) which you may click to summon them in all their smurfy goodness-- once you summon them, they will clean up ALL posts on the boards.

should you no longer require their smurfing services, simply click on the smurf button on any post w/ smurfs in it and disable it to shoo them back into their hidey-hole.

did you curse in the OP & it changed it to 'smurf"? LOL

I didn't even know there was a filter until yesterday when I tried to read a post without being signed in.

I ♥ Smurfs!

this is super cool!

That might be nice to have when my older kids are walking around trying to read what I am reading.

Quoting Mrs. Conan O'Brien:“ did you curse in the OP & it changed it to 'smurf"? LOL”

nope. that's the title!

I want to do this right now.  

Can we check it out in old threads? I'm sure TDC would be hilarious.

Quoting Mara:“ nope. that's the title!”

aww I was hoping you did   lol

I liked the 'smurf', 'smurfy', 'smurfing'  

i just saw and was scared to push the button

thats pretty sweet!

cute idea! i love smurfs lol

Quoting Veni~Vidi~Vici:“ i just saw and was scared to push the button”

it'll prompt you... so you can just "cancel" if you don't want it.

I just tried it,
loveee it!
hahaha.

Quoting Jess....:“ I want to do this right now.   Can we check it out in old threads? I'm sure TDC would be hilarious.”

It's somewhat retro-active -- older posts with the most obvious swears will have triggered the filter.

Newer posts will be much more effective (the smurfs actually do quite a lot of work to clean up clever ones).