So a month or so ago, I was TO’d for a couple of weeks for an expletive in a video (the Trump Access Hollywood video, incidentally) that I posted and warned about with a “Language alert.” This week I found a post with a George Carlin video with a word that would be filtered here. (One of Carlin’s seven forbidden words it was.) I flagged it and the video was apparently only deleted but I don’t believe a TO was given.
So what was the difference between my post and this one, which did not have a language alert on it whereas mine did? And what’s the current policy on swear words in videos? Are they allowed or not with a language alert?
It was passed on to the Mod staff some time back that if a longer video was put up with a couple of “banned words” in it was okay. Again context matters in how the word is used in the video.
I didn’t delete the video post (not sure which mod did), because I listed/watched for 45 seconds and didn’t hear anything bad.
If the video has closed captioning (aka words on the screen) and the F bomb or other banned words show up, it can be a filter bypass.
If it’s a clip of even the president saying ■■■■ with a couple words before or a couple words after, cut to the next time president says it, over and over and over again so it’s essentially a long string of the word ■■■■ – they expect a time out.
