in reply to Language Filter
I agree, but i think there should be an option in one's preferences to turn filtering on or off, perhaps even allow different users to choose their own filtered words, and what they would like them to be replaced with (F-word with F***, or F!!!, or !!!, or F!CK, etc..).. just another $.02 :)
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Re: Re: Language Filter
by lemming (Priest) on Jan 13, 2001 at 12:42 UTC
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Well, I would say let each user make their own filter.
Start off with simple regex
s/\sf[u*][c*]k\s/[censored]/i
if you want to just get that first bad word on each line.
Build from there until satisfied.
Another thought that this would allow is you could censor
whatever you wanted. Maybe I spaz out whenever I see the
terms "mission statement", "paradigm", or "win-win"
mentioned.
Now the question is, should we make the filters public
knowledge so that the more knowledgeable monks could
suggest improvements? This would have the benefit
of the regexes being clean enough to not swamp the
server with useless spinning. Of course that might increase
the amount of harsh language to get by most regexes. I
think tone is a lot more important than the use of
"restricted" language.
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There is a good solution, make sensitive people type in
their own personal list of bad words. If enough sites make
them do that, after a while laziness will crush any sense
of "bad-word-ness" that exists in society.
On a more serious note, you likely wanted "\b" rather
than "\s" at the beginning and no \s at the end either.
Your way used on "go f**k yourself you f**ker" yields
"go[censored]yourself you f**ker", which isn't likely
to be the result you want.
Worse, people like me will delight in finding new variations
that get by your current filters. Like pr0n and fsck and "fock cucker"
or even "Kcuf!". L33t speak became a real benefit to
society when it helped AOLers get around useless filters.
Oh yeah, I won't even get into the problem of regex
dealing with the difference between embedded sequences vs.
prefixes and suffixes and grammatical declension. "Skys[censored]per".
Filtering is a Tar-Baby. It looks easy to beat-up but
every attack you make just gets you in deeper. And, now
that I've made that analogy, I might start calling
you Brer-lemming just to be mean. =)
Finally; If you want to see cussing, start censoring people.
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