Censorship of the Number One Bracketed Inside a String of Exclamation Marks
I just noticed that Red Bubble has a policy of censoring the use of the number one when bracketed by multiple exclamation marks. Try it, type a few of them followed by a few number ones then more exclamation marks. I understand this is to prevent people looking like morons who can’t keep a steady finger on the shift trigger when using multiple exclamation marks (which happen to be grammatically superfluous anyway if we’re going to be picky) but what if someone feels like using five exclamations in a row followed by three number ones and a couple more exclamations for a sarcastic over-fervent effect? More importantly, if people are accidentally doing this and not taking the care to review and edit their own work then they must be exposed! How else will they learn? In any case, this isn’t the Metallica Fan Forum and I don’t think Red Bubble is at any risk of becoming overrun by illiterate internet trolls any time soon, so I hereby call for the grammar filters to be scrapped!!!!!
Update: This also applies when you type the word “one” between the exclamations. Just how deep does this conspiracy spiral?!!! 1one1!!!
Dana DiPasquale
exclamation points are used in the coding for posting links on RB, so they are not censoring it; it just thinks it is part of code
Sheamus D
Hmmm, that does make a whole lot of sense…I think you’re onto something! :)
Jessica Tremp
hahahaha
shaktipat
lol. i like the conspiracy theory better, i mean really. am i the only one that thinks dana’s explanation is perhaps a little
logical?
shaktipat
dude i totally got censored! HAA HAAA!!!
razorbladeshine
Perhaps they should add word filters so that if you type the word “Metallica” it changes it to the word “The fucktards that destroyed Napster because they aren’t already rich enough!” or something along those lines…...I’m just sayin.
jenxie
have you tried an exclamation point followed by a question mark followed by an an exclamation point such as what the hell
it doesn’t work
ingrid butler
does everyone have this much time on their hands?
just wondering…