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It all depends upon where you decide to draw the line, Steve.
It's the rules that draw the line, Ken. If the rules say that implied profanity is prohibited, then implied profanity should be prohibited, period. The rule shouldn't be imposed on members only to look the other way just because someone had the huevos to intentionally use implied profanity when it came to he name of their company. Or to prohibit any mention of drugs and impose it on members only to look the other way just because some company chose to name one of their products after a drug.
That's just bald faced hypocrisy no matter how you slice it and I don't see how you can expect anyone to take the rules here seriously with such a two-faced approach.
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We could pretend that the company doesn't exist, and ignore the existence of what is turning out to be a very fine head-amp available for an entry level price.
So instead you opt for hypocrisy? Punishing members in one instance, but turning a blind eye to commercial entities in other instances?
Why not putting a little thought into how absurd it is to try and sanitize a forum such as this so that it would meet the approval of the Children's Television Workshop?
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We can refer to the amp by it's actual company name, Schiit, or we could refer to it as the company web site does and call it Shee-tah...
The company only pronounces it "Shee-tah" in jest. In the next sentence, they say "Or, well, no. Yep, Schiit is our name, and it's pronounced exactly like you think. As in 'Hey man, that's some really cool Schiit.' Or, 'We like music and Schiit.'"
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Do we turn a blind eye to a company name whose product happens to be capable of bringing great enjoyment to many who would otherwise not be able to afford it? A company who is trying to help the ailing American economy by bringing some design, engineering, and manufacturing back to these shores instead of selling us out? You bet!
And in turning such a blind eye you reveal yourselves as hypocrites. You reveal that the rule against implied profanity is ultimately meaningless and insincere.
And what if it was a company who was outsourcing to China? Then you wouldn't turn a blind eye?
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Are we going to take ourselves so seriously that we turn something away because its company name sounds like a grade "b" bad word if people choose to pronounce it that way, even though it's a high value product, and at the same time ignore grade "b" behavior as long as people use nice words?
And what about a grade "a" "bad word"? If I name my company Fək and come out with a killer headphone amp, would any mention of it here be prohibited? Really?
The entirety of your post amounts to one thing. You don't REALLY care about implied profanity here and that some may find it offensive. I mean, others finding it offensive is the only reason to have such a rule in the first place. To those folks, who would be no less offended just because the implied vulgarity happens to be a company's name, you're effectively telling them you don't really care that they may be offended. That there are more important things than their being offended. Like, headphone amps.
And if you don't really care, then why not just get rid of that stupid rule altogether?
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