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    Not at all 999 in fact there is a very good reason for these rules.

    Up until lately this forum survived financially with the bills being paid from the adverts that are clear to see at the top of each page. This kept the site free for a very long time, however in the last few years most people have stopped clicking through on banner adverts and many have advert blocker software on their PC's now so they never see the adverts at all.

    This significantly reduced the income from the advertisers, thus why the site now uses a subscriber based model. However even these costs are still significantly reduced because there still are adverts and people who are clicking through on them.

    Now here is the issue, Adsense the company that looks after all of these adverts on various forums and websites requires that the forums are GA rated and there is no profanity otherwise they cut the site off. If this happened here then either the site would fold or the level of subscription fees would have to dramatically increase which would impact on everyone, not just those who would like to use profanity while discussing how to keep their Land Rovers going.

    Personally I'm quite happy that we can have mature discussions here on Aulro without the need for swear words being visible, which often when put in writing in a discussion usually end up in serious blues anyway.
    The rules are a good compromise and still give people the latitude to show their concern or anger if need be without it being in everyone's faces.

    Anyway that is why, in part, the rules are in place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TerryO View Post
    Not at all 999 in fact there is a very good reason for these rules.

    Up until lately this forum survived financially with the bills being paid from the adverts that are clear to see at the top of each page. This kept the site free for a very long time, however in the last few years most people have stopped clicking through on banner adverts and many have advert blocker software on their PC's now so they never see the adverts at all.

    This significantly reduced the income from the advertisers, thus why the site now uses a subscriber based model. However even these costs are still significantly reduced because there still are adverts and people who are clicking through on them.

    Now here is the issue, Adsense the company that looks after all of these adverts on various forums and websites requires that the forums are GA rated and there is no profanity otherwise they cut the site off. If this happened here then either the site would fold or the level of subscription fees would have to dramatically increase which would impact on everyone, not just those who would like to use profanity while discussing how to keep their Land Rovers going.

    Personally I'm quite happy that we can have mature discussions here on Aulro without the need for swear words being visible, which often when put in writing in a discussion usually end up in serious blues anyway.
    The rules are a good compromise and still give people the latitude to show their concern or anger if need be without it being in everyone's faces.

    Anyway that is why, in part, the rules are in place.
    Also once swearing is allowed as it is on other forums then it seems that there are more swear words than words, not a nice place to be.
    Chris

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerryO View Post
    Not at all 999 in fact there is a very good reason for these rules.
    Ahh I see. A quick search and I found this "The content must be deemed as acceptable for Google to be willing to display ads on it" source Google AdSense in Depth It makes more sense now.

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    not to mention i want my grand children to be able to read this site in safety.

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    Yes well the little incisors certainly should be LR owners!

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    Ps. I have seen cites where swearing is considered ok and it's not pretty.

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    As Toxic highlited with his binary, there are two types of people in the world, those who can use the English language, and those who speak French....oops, *&^/

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    Quote Originally Posted by benji View Post
    As Toxic highlited with his binary, there are two types of people in the world, those who can use the English language, and those who speak French....oops, *&^/

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    Or as someone said, "There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't."

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