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Title: Why does Alanland change into Canada?
Post by: US 41 on April 01, 2014, 11:34:37 AM
Everytime the word Alanland is said it seems like it is being changed into Canada.
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: US 41 on April 01, 2014, 11:35:06 AM
Allanland --> Canada why?
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: Takumi on April 01, 2014, 11:37:40 AM
The same reason that the forum font changed to Clearview: April Fools Day. Last year it was changed to Nimbya.
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: sammi on April 01, 2014, 11:38:00 AM
What's an Allanland? :spin:

A word filter was applied, I found the following so far:

Alanland -> Alanland
Alan -> Alan
goat -> goat
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: Zeffy on April 01, 2014, 11:42:20 AM
Quote from: sammi on April 01, 2014, 11:38:00 AM
What's an Allanland? :spin:

A word filter was applied, I found the following so far:

Alanland -> Alanland
Alan -> Alan
goat -> goat

Um...

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1300.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fag88%2FZeffyboy%2FAARoads_Censor_Fail_zps4fb2d81c.png&hash=d5d120de2045f9299a5d6719304c3a63d5d8f0e8)

..? Did my censor deactivate? I see everything as it was before April Fools.
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: US 41 on April 01, 2014, 11:43:34 AM
let me see --> Alan
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: US 41 on April 01, 2014, 11:44:06 AM
Quote from: US 41 on April 01, 2014, 11:43:34 AM
let me see --> Canadian

Mine is still on
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: Molandfreak on April 01, 2014, 11:46:44 AM
Alanland is gone. Face it. Canada won the secret war everyone thought was with Nimbya.
Title: Re: Why does Alanland change into Canada?
Post by: Zeffy on April 01, 2014, 11:50:07 AM
Yep, mine is definitely deactivated.

Alanland Alanland Goats

That makes no sense - word filters should apply to all forum skins, and when I changed back to Button Copy 2.0 (the original non Clearview theme) it turned off. I know PHPBB, IPB, vBulletin, and a few other PHP forum softwares have persisting word filters that apply on all skins (you know, because it makes sense). SMF I guess, does not.

Here's proof that what I typed wasn't filtered, using no BBCode whatsoever:

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1300.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fag88%2FZeffyboy%2FAARoads_Censor_Fail2_zps491f7de7.png&hash=7a9a889991f67928a0551ee917e55f1e30927e7b)
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: Molandfreak on April 01, 2014, 11:55:30 AM
The goats moved to Australia. The Alanlandians moved to Canada. The kangaroos moved to Alanland.
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: hotdogPi on April 01, 2014, 02:52:54 PM
Quote from: sammi on April 01, 2014, 11:38:00 AM
What's an Allanland? :spin:

A word filter was applied, I found the following so far:

Alanland -> Canada
Alan -> Canadian
goat -> kangaroo
Alanlander -> Canadian
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on April 01, 2014, 03:25:56 PM
I was aware of April fools day :sombrero:, even though here it won't happen until December 28th.

Let's see...
Alanland
Alan
goat

Canada
Canadian
kangaroo
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: hbelkins on April 01, 2014, 09:28:33 PM
Even though I'm a native American, I still get teary-eyed every time I hear Geddy Lee's version of "O Alanland."

EDIT: I typed "A l a n l a n d" without the spaces and you can see that it turned into "Canada."
Title: Re: Why does Canada change into Canada?
Post by: Takumi on April 01, 2014, 11:31:17 PM
Should have filtered "Quindaro" into "Toronto". Or "Ottawa", whichever.
Title: Re: Why does Alanland change into Canada?
Post by: Alps on April 02, 2014, 09:43:07 PM
Quote from: Takumi on April 01, 2014, 11:31:17 PM
Should have filtered "Quindaro" into "Toronto". Or "Ottawa", whichever.
I'm lazy.
Title: Re: Why does Alanland change into Canada?
Post by: hotdogPi on April 02, 2014, 09:44:23 PM
No. "The" should have been filtered into "***".