Hey Domers! The waters have been getting a little testy at times lately, and that's not something we want right before the holidays, so I want to leave a reminder.

Foul language doesn't warrant a suspension / ban. There have been multiple reports coming in from multiple members about language being used. But if it isn't attacking a forum member or threatening, it doesn't warrant disciplinary action. Obviously, these calls are judgmental, and there could be exceptions, but we do want to allow members to speak freely.

I am a big advocate of using the IGNORE feature if you don't want to see somebody's posts. Just hover over their profile picture and click ignore. On mobile, use this link. If a poster gets under your skin, you'll enjoy the forums much more if you don't see their content, that is if you don't embrace the debates, which is different than just arguing.

I'm going to leave this thread unlocked for the time being for any suggestions and for some open discussion on the topic, in general as well since there's no ND Football until New Year's Day. Drop any feedback here.

Also, I do want this to be a more accessible to all ages (at least PG-13+), plus advertisers are not fans off certain language, so I might put some auto-censors in place. Examples: Fug or F*&K instead of F***. 

If you want to make some censorship suggestions, please drop them in this thread, and please use asterisks instead of the word you want to replace (like shown above).

Any concerns, drop them here. If you want to chat privately, my DMs are always open.

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!

You don’t realize how happy it makes me to see “judgmental” spelled correctly.  The grammar nazi side of me thanks you.

19 minutes ago, irishwavend said:

You don’t realize how happy it makes me to see “judgmental” spelled correctly.  The grammar nazi side of me thanks you.

Glad i got that 1 right! But if you comb thru it, im shure u'll find sum airers in my first post abuv.

You just gotta put these on then you can say shlt plss f*ck, whatever you want..

 

C@ck, Balls

 

Ok, we don't have to celebrate it.. 

On 12/21/2021 at 10:37 PM, JTennant said:

You just gotta put these on then you can say shlt plss f*ck, whatever you want..

 

C@ck, Balls

 

Ok, we don't have to celebrate it.. 

Funniest part of a great movie… 

On 12/21/2021 at 12:52 PM, cali_domer said:

Merry Christmas! I haven't ignored anyone yet, but it is a great feature. 

Agree. At some point that ignore is going to happen. But I like the banter from time to time. So highly unlikely. 

On 12/21/2021 at 2:45 PM, ndfanatic78 said:

The only issue with the ignore function is that depending on the person you now have half a topic blocked and it really depreciates the value of the board especially when people are responding to those antagonistic posts. I guess it’s up to each of us to decide whether it’s worth paying attention and continued participation in the board but I can say without a doubt there are a couple of posters that have dominated this board lately that have discouraged me from posting because I don’t feel like getting into shit posting back and forth rather than having valued debate and discussion. 

Sorry. I’ll do a better job with the “@“ somebody. 

On 12/21/2021 at 5:59 PM, TexasDomer said:

Foul language is what you resort to when your vocabulary is inadequate or your position is insupportable.

That said, I use foul language in real life.

I disagree. Depends on a lot of things. I'm college educated, traveled a ton internationally, have a pretty large vocab, don't swear much, but I did when I was young due to where and who I grew up with (Catholic/Irish/German/Italian). I'll still toss several Fs around when I'm hanging with the friends and family I grew up with. The two people that I know who still swear the most, one is a West Point grad, the other an Ivy Leaguer. 

Tomorrow night I will be hanging with some old chums watching the Colts. I look forward to regressing to more primitive times lol. 

The Colts will make a person swear.

13 minutes ago, TexasDomer said:

The Colts will make a person swear.

Yes they will. I might need to warm up a bit before the game. Drop a couple F-bombs in the mirror. I'm sure it will come back to me easily. The entire iOL is out including Q. 

23 hours ago, TexasDomer said:

The Colts will make a person swear.

This Colts- or the real Colts ha 😉

16 hours ago, coltssb said:

This Colts- or the real Colts ha 😉

The one Bob & Tom used to sing about.. The pre-Jim Harbaugh days or pre Peyton Manning colts. 

On 12/26/2021 at 8:18 AM, JTennant said:

The one Bob & Tom used to sing about.. The pre-Jim Harbaugh days or pre Peyton Manning colts. 

I love the pre-Manning era Colts. I don't do pro football anymore but I always loved the Bills. The Scott Norwood (Ray Finkle) kick against the Giants was a heartbreaker. I think that is where I really stopped loving pro ball and then the next three years it just got worse.

I digress, my point was only that back in those days Indy and New England were the scrubs of the AFC. They were guaranteed Ws. Crazy to see how things have changed over the years.

But the Colts had Jeff George!

While I don't agree with the censorship to begin with, I get it.  However, we're all mostly men here and if a word offends you then idk how you could be into something like football but anyway...can we at least get the auto change for the "f word" to be either "effing" or "friggin" or "frigging" instead of "friging".  It just doesn't look right lol.