# How are we (Shift518) doing?

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**Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 26, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-are-we-shift518-doing/241599 "2009-01-26T18:32:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Singh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Singh1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh1)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-are-we-shift518-doing/241599/82 "2009-01-29T02:22:46Z")

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> [@\*\*\*\*\*Official: Mighty Meet Thread\*\*\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-mighty-meet-thread/10918/238):
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> If you can’t do it in person, don’t be an Ethug and do it online. If you feel any doubts about using it in a real world situation, don’t complain.

i doubt anyone here is gonna use the word on the forums to put someone down, so they would not do that in person either. but alot of us who say it on the forums will say it in person the same way, joking around… that word has become very sociably acceptable and i say it all over the place as a habbit but i would never say it in a disrespectful way …(that doesnt make any sense prolly thx to my skills at explaining)

> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13245/5):
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> Vlad, I dealt with this on AUG at one time… in the end, censorship is difficult. The reason it is difficult is for all the reasons posted in this thread.  
> #1. If someone is a racist, let them expose themselves, thats a good thing. Might as well wear a cloak and cap. Its good to let them expose themselves. It may make them enemies, and may make them friends.
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> #2 Racism and prejudice are not the same at all.
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> **#3 95% of the time when these words are not meant in a derogetory way, thus what we are censoring is not racism.**
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> #4 As a site owner, you may feel that not moderating makes you look like you agree with these terms, words, thoughtless and harmful content…but it’s not true. Failure to act in a “community” forum doesnt not mean you stand by all comments made (though I feel your agnst).
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> #5 If your going to ban a word, which is cool by me, as its totally your choice, replace it with a funny word, not the word Censored or \*\*\*\*\*\*. Makes reading it far more interesting.
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> Lastly, Obama is a stupid \*\*\*\*\*.

um yea everything he said ^

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