On profanity and the word filter

[Kevin]

You may or may not have noticed that the word filter is acting a little differently. It's been changed to just "star" out the various combinations of everyone's favorite four letter words, rather then replace a single character. I've gotten tired of adding words to the filter and hopefully this will work out better.

As always, attempting to come up with ways to work around the word filter will be viewed with great disfavor. I'd say that the two words that you should avoid the most would be obvious, but since there's always at least one slow and snarky gerbil around, I'm talking about f*** and s***.

Please use this thread to point out words that are unintentionally captured by the filter or other comments you may have.

Kevin

[mattsteg]

no more discussions of the shi ttah tree, I guess

[steelcity_ballin]

As you can tell, I was testing some words. Seems pretty solid.

[SpotTheCat]

well, your **** piece of **** filter seems to be working.

edit: it changes anything ending in ing to four stars, making it harder to get the idea of what you're saying.

[axeman]

What about ****? Does that count?

Apparently yes.. Maybe you could leave out F S C K for the linux forum?

[excession]

What about the lovely UK town of Scunthorpe?

[edit] so is **** a badword then? "your **** daughter?" -The Exorcist [/edit]

[edit2] What about the best word ever, "bollocks"? [/edit]

[Kevin]

edit: it changes anything ending in ing to four stars, making it harder to get the idea of what you're saying.

While I at first thought that this was a drawback, now I'm wondering if the lack of clarity and meaning is actually more useful then to make my work easier.

so is **** a badword then?

If it stars it out, yes. Unless it is caught in the cross fire of the filter unintentionally. But your example doesn't qualify.

Maybe you could leave out F S C K for the linux forum?

It's only in the filter because it used to be the modified word. I'm sure if people need help with the *nix command, they'll figure out how to type it.

[cheesyking]

Does it still filter urls to innocently name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****,_Austria">Austria hamlets?</a>

EDIT: The man from Delmonte, he say "Yes!"

[derFunkenstein]

Oh, interesting. Now when you quote someone, you don't see what they wrote...so it's apparently stored as "****" instead of the original word.

[Kevin]

Oh, interesting. Now when you quote someone, you don't see what they wrote...so it's apparently stored as "****" instead of the original word.

I think it's always done that. Before, however, it was easy to understand what was intended since only one letter was changed. Now it's all up in the air.

[cheesyking]

[edit2] What about the best word ever, "bollocks"? [/edit]

Never mind the bollocks it's spelled bollox

[Spyder22446688]

Son of a dirty ***********************************


*********!

*********! ****! ** 69 *****!

****** camel toed mother ***** *** of a *********!

[PerfectCr]

What about For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge? Yep, that works.

[derFunkenstein]

I think it's always done that.

Not that it matters, but I went into a PM that predates the new filter, and when I hit "quote" it shows the unfiltered word. If I quote something that's post-new-filter, it shows as asterisks. However, if I *edit* something I posted, it shows the real word still. This filter is **** up, yo

[tfp]

Not that it matters, but I went into a PM that predates the new filter, and when I hit "quote" it shows the unfiltered word. If I quote something that's post-new-filter, it shows as asterisks. However, if I *edit* something I posted, it shows the real word still. This filter is **** up, yo

Damn no swearing in the PMs anymore? How the **** will the person I normally PM know what I'm saying?

[thegleek]

s***

Did you know as a factoid, that kids in India and pretty much many other Eastern countries, the word **** is not a bad word and is learned at a very early age and is used quite commonly in everyday language?

Also, I'd like to add that I've seen many people use @sshole here to get around the filter, as such:

No, I'm saying "If someone is an @sshole online, odds are they are an @sshole IRL, or would be an @ssole if they had the chance." You're saying there's no correlation, which I think is 100% off.

Which was taken from a thread (now locked) in the Gaming forum here.

[Buub]

So is there a way for each individual user to choose whether they want to see the "profanity" or have it filtered? I didn't see an option in the Profile settings.

[Hizpanick]

If you bold the words like **** does that hide them too?

EDIT: hides the bolding too. Wow. But if I edit my own post I see my original profanity.

[PerfectCr]

****

Oooooo, sneaky!

[thegleek]

****

Oooooo, sneaky!

**EDIT BY MOD: Did you not read what I wrote above? -Kevin**

[FireGryphon]

****

Oooooo, sneaky!

Begging your pardon, sir?

**REMOVED**

Darnit, you gave away the secret before we could abuse it!

[mattsteg]

****

Oooooo, sneaky!

Begging your pardon, sir?

i!=¡

[thegleek]

Darnit, you gave away the secret before we could abuse it!

I'm on high-probation around here now, so I'm trying not to shake things up for me!

[SNM]

Hmm....let's see if I can manage it...

Yep, can do. Gonna have to run it through a tag remover before checking if you want it to be worth anything.

[Usacomp2k3]

Yep, can do. Gonna have to run it through a tag remover before checking if you want it to be worth anything.

Or the people that purposely violate forum Rule #8 get the ban-stick.

[SNM]

Welll, this thread did seem to have become the place to stress-test the filter.

[Vrock]

Edit: nevermind. Filter works fine.

[Kevin]

Did you know as a factoid, that kids in India and pretty much many other Eastern countries, the word **** is not a bad word and is learned at a very early age and is used quite commonly in everyday language?

I don't care. This isn't negotiable.

I'm on high-probation around here now, so I'm trying not to shake things up for me!

You are doing a horrible job. Seriously. I said "attempting to come up with ways to work around the word filter will be viewed with great disfavor". You need to work on your reading comprehension.

And in case no one has been bright enough to figure it out, you can use the "Preview" feature to see if stuff gets filtered. You don't have to submit it. Pretty amazing, huh?

If anyone just has an insatiable itch to "help" with the filter, then PM me. Or get that rash looked at.

Kevin

[Capsaicin]

You need to work on your reading compression.

A little too long staring at the screen, huh?

[Kevin]

You need to work on your reading compression.

A little too long staring at the screen, huh?

Spell checker picked the wrong word. Really.