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4/6/2013 8:14:11   
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I know that there are enough AKs to catch out the stuff themselves, but would it be good to have a word filter which would filter out profanity and replace it with something else

Ex. Lets imagine "Hello" is a bad word.

Sentence: You're such a Hello man!

Filtered: You're such a noob man!

Of course, you can't flame anyone, but what do you other forumites think of this idea?
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4/6/2013 8:34:00   
Stray Cat
The kitty
without a name


We already have a filter that works just fine. It replaces blacklisted words with asterisks, which is a lot more useful to the AKs than a filter that simply disguises obscene language. Profanity is not allowed, regardless of whether it's censored or not, and we want to know when a user has broken the rules.
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4/6/2013 11:37:57   
Xplayer
Roaming the Web


To add, you can always check if a word will be filtered by hitting the "preview" button before submitting your post.
AQ AQW  Post #: 3
4/6/2013 22:28:40   
Seahawk
Member

Our original forum had a filter much like you described, that would replace bad language with other less offensive words. There were two big problems with it:

1) It was a bit over-aggressive. If a word on the censored list was part of an acceptable word, it would still replace the bad word and turn the acceptable word into gibberish. For example, if we pretend that "and" was a bad word that got filtered, you also wouldn't have been able to use the words "candy", "band", or "android" because the "and" letter combination would be replaced by something else.

2) A filter like that doesn't encourage people to stop cursing or using inappropriate language. Instead, it created the mindset where people felt it was OK to type whatever they wanted, because the forum would replace the word with something non-offensive and they wouldn't get caught unless a Mod looked really closely. When our current filter replaces bad language with **** we can still see that you tried to curse and act accordingly (self-censored profanity and using words that are filtered is still considered unacceptable posting behavior even when the filter removes the bad language, after all). But if it replaced one word with another acceptable word, we'd have no way of knowing that you didn't originally type the acceptable word without editing the post to see what was originally written.
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