Thread: Petition to uncensor Mr. So Yama****a

Originally Posted by Bruno

We are looking at this issue. Not only So's name was affected, but there was somebody mentioning pea**** feather as well

Yes, the word censor has been enabled a coupld of days ago. There are just a couple of words being filtered, and I am checking to see if we can maintain a whitelist of words that are left alone.

can't you just change the regexen of blacklisted words to only trigger if the offending pattern is surrounded by whitespace? eg not part of some other word.

Originally Posted by jockeys

can't you just change the regexen of blacklisted words to only trigger if the offending pattern is surrounded by whitespace? eg not part of some other word.

I don't know. I had the same idea. but then the problem becomes blacklisting all the possible permutations of words like s.hit or c.ock and the rest of them.
dip****
bull****
****sucker
****lover
...

The list goes on and on, and it's impossible to capture them all.
So it'll pobably come down to white listing the couple of legit words which have one of those banned words in them.

Not a fan of the filter at all; Not that I curse, I just like to know that I could if I wanted.

Originally Posted by Nickelking

Not a fan of the filter at all; Not that I curse, I just like to know that I could if I wanted.

That's what is for. Or you can be creative and do something like *&$%!
If you really want to use profane language, well, that's not allowed on this site.

Never said I would, but the people that want to curse will just use the . method used above or use a 1 instead of an i or an l like my spam emailers do to me.

I've liked the fact that I'm trusted not to curse, if I did I'd expect to be asked to change it or have it changed for me; If I persisted I'd expect to be banned, it's in the TOS. A filter however changes that, as shown above it'll modify words that shouldn't be. Possibly resulting in someone thinking I'm saying something I'm not, I don't like that.

Granted no solution is perfect, I'm just stating the fact that I don't prefer this one.

Problem would be solved if So registers with his name written in Japanese characters.

Well in the interest of looking for ways to circumvent the filter when speaking of the mate of the peahen..... i choose the euphemism "pussy feathers"(RIP George Carlin) to refer to that type of scale design! which appeartly the software is ok with.... this could make the prc thread more honest.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I don't know. I had the same idea. but then the problem becomes blacklisting all the possible permutations of words like s.hit or c.ock and the rest of them.
dip****
bull****
****sucker
****lover
...

The list goes on and on, and it's impossible to capture them all.
So it'll pobably come down to white listing the couple of legit words which have one of those banned words in them.

guess i'll avoid badminton threads, then it'd be horrible in there, what with everyone talking about their favorite brand of shuttle@@@@