"The list of Banned words is hidden
There is no way of knowing if you’re going to hit one
I’ve had a ban for writing to a profile “I’m not into X” (where x happened to have been mentioned as something they might be into on their profile)
I gained a SEVEN HOUR (not 2) ban for that and even still I’m not sure what word I used. It’s more a guess.
That took out a free evening I had to play (really annoying)
I get that we could guess words that aren’t allowed. But it’s still guessing.
Hi Fab, Whats this nonsense about baning people for mentioning other websites. No warning nothing just banded from messaging for 24 hours. If only you banned the fakes and timewasters so quickly. Rant over.
There IS warning, there are chat rules that you are advised to read, if you didn't and got banned, that's on you. Mentioning other websites are against the rules you should have read, as its your responsibility. "
The issue of publishing a list of what's not appropriate, is that it would of course, include some unsavoury topics that Fab would then have introduced into the site, which would be offensive and potentially breaking laws somewhere, which could be introduced after it's published. It also poses the risk of being perceived as everything else is acceptable, when often it's also about the integrated combination of words/topics that could be very wrong for the site, even if individual words seem innocuous. A dynamically updated list also supports appropriate modification and can prevent people from trying to avoid scrutiny.
As with the Fab photo rules, we state that nothing nasty must appear, with the following guidance
'It also can't show anything that is outside the norms. If it's too rude, taboo or unpleasant, or if it puts us off our dinner, it is not welcome here.'
Similar principles can be considered as right, for written content.
What's not permitted are individual words, phrases or implied meanings, which will include behaviour that's unpleasant/offensive, as well as URLs that aren't Fab's.
Probably 99.9% of the English language and URLs are going to be fine and leave everyone in a place that's comfortable and safe. Typically, using common sense is going to be enough to prevent any issues. Other people might report content, after it's been published and was determined as provisionally acceptable by the Fab automatic filters, so keeping within the sensible guidance akin to the photo advice, should help to prevent that. |
