[Angel_of_Rust]

I hate to say it Blackhat, but something needs to be done about the swearfilter. The only way to fairly and reliably control the language, is to have someone sit there and kick users accordingly, not with mIRC based scripts or any other scripted client. As with any computer system, there are flaws, and in your scripting, a few large ones. The scripts just aren't intelligent enough to determine what is an inappropriate word or not, and have been banning people for normal everyday harmless words. A couple problems with this. First, a newbie who comes in and gets banned for using everyday words like the mentioned massage or even assassin, which is a unit in the very game we play, is very unlikely to return. Second, since you have removed nearly all the operators from the user list, baring Aun, Pulan, and Xaero as far as I've been able to determine, it is very difficult to get someone unbanned if it is done mistakenly so. Of those three remaining operators, one has just recently returned from a month of absence, and the other two are in the military, and as a result not regularly around. I do see the need to prevent young members from being bombarded with cussing, but there are some changes that need to be made to the current system. If you want to keep the swear filter, and the members, I would suggest going back to the old system of auto opping and add more oeprators to the userlist. I was unaware I was even removed until recently when I tried to check the current userss with such privalages on the channel and was told Iw as not even listed as a channel user. Currently we can't run effectively, and soemthing needs to be done. On another note, I know the majority, if not all of our users are over 13. If we can hear this sort of language sparringly in a PG-13 movie, I honestly don't see the harm in a remark made now and again. I would hate to lose a valuable and enriching part of the community just because adults want to speak like adults. I think it would be a good idea to create a core set of operators on IRC, with which to discuss ideas about how it runs, who can deal with issues as they arrise. As I'm sure you know, not everyone who is a good moderator on the board, knows enough about IRC to make a good operator. I would be very interested in discussing the matter further with you and perhaps the other senior members if you are interested. Please let me know either way.