I wish I could write the filter. Alas, I lack both the knowledge and the privilege on PM to do that.
You wouldn't need any privileges on Perlmonks to write
it as a proxy. As an added bonus, it could be made to
work with all sites, not just Perlmonks. Most of it
is probably already done, in the form of various
modules (LWP, HTML::Parser or
one of the other various HTML parsers (you
need to parse the HTML so that you can filter the
words only when they are going to show up as page
content, not when e.g. they are in hidden form
fields), Regexp::Common, (there is
specifically a regex there for common profanity),
Net::Server or perhaps HTTP::Daemon,
and so on). All you'd really have to do is piece it
together with a bit of Perl glue. As for the
knowledge, I suspect you could
learn as you go (start by learning to use each of
the modules...), and it would probably be a good
learning project. I suspect you could have something
mostly working in six months or less, and then you
could put it up on the CPAN if you like...
Have you noticed that no one seems to change their mind as a result of discussions about profanity?
Yes, I have noticed that. This discussion is no
different in that respect from any of the others,
which is why you don't see me chiming in, except
on matters to do with implementing something in Perl
(err, and a small bit of off-topic humor).
$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/
