A trivial question about the censorship software

[diebitter]

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Im pretty sure i know what the rudest word in the world is, and i use it fairly regularly.

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"liberal"?

<font color="white">KIDDING. I swear. I don't even read Politics. </font>

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No, it's Belgium.

[BradleyT]

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Can you put a space at the start of the filter word? Like " shht". That should take care of most combination words.

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I posted it above. It took 2 seconds to research the UBB threads filter.

Censor Tab

The Censor function allows you to filter out specific words to be censored in posts made on your message board. To use this function, you must first enable it, by checking the Enable Censor checkbox. You can enter the words you wish to censor into the Censored Words field and even choose the Default Replacement Word.

To enter your words in the Censored Words field, enter one word per line, using on the Enter key - do not use spaces. To censor a full word, type the full word into the field. To censor any word that begins or ends with a certain string, use wildcard matching with the wildcard: (.*?) For example:

pa(.*?)cake would match "pancake" or "pattycake"
pan(.*?) would match any word beginning with "pan"
(.*?)cake would match any word ending with "cake"
Words in the Censored Words field will be replaced by the Default Replacement Word indicated. The default included is "[censored]" and will be used to replace all censored words posted. If you wish to replace a specific word with another word, follow it in the Censored Words field with an equal sign, then the replacement. For example:

pancake=waffles would replace "pancake" with "waffles"
pan(.*?)=waffles would replace any word begging with "pan" with "waffles"


So in theory they should be able to add (.*?)badword(.*?) to the list to take out all occurances.

[Ryan Beal]

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doesn't anyone read the docs?

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The problem has been, despite similar documentation which claims otherwise, filtering with wildcards doesn't work in the version we're using now. When I looked into this a while back I found others reporting the same problem with their boards, and after a few months I gave up on digging for a solution in the UBB forums. I thought it would be fixed in one of the smaller updates.

But it does work in 7.

[BradleyT]

Well when the upgrade to 7 comes I think you should do the pancake=waffles filter just to mess with people.

[TomCollins]

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Can you put a space at the start of the filter word? Like " shht". That should take care of most combination words.

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I posted it above. It took 2 seconds to research the UBB threads filter.

Censor Tab

The Censor function allows you to filter out specific words to be censored in posts made on your message board. To use this function, you must first enable it, by checking the Enable Censor checkbox. You can enter the words you wish to censor into the Censored Words field and even choose the Default Replacement Word.

To enter your words in the Censored Words field, enter one word per line, using on the Enter key - do not use spaces. To censor a full word, type the full word into the field. To censor any word that begins or ends with a certain string, use wildcard matching with the wildcard: (.*?) For example:

pa(.*?)cake would match "pancake" or "pattycake"
pan(.*?) would match any word beginning with "pan"
(.*?)cake would match any word ending with "cake"
Words in the Censored Words field will be replaced by the Default Replacement Word indicated. The default included is "[censored]" and will be used to replace all censored words posted. If you wish to replace a specific word with another word, follow it in the Censored Words field with an equal sign, then the replacement. For example:

pancake=waffles would replace "pancake" with "waffles"
pan(.*?)=waffles would replace any word begging with "pan" with "waffles"


So in theory they should be able to add (.*?)badword(.*?) to the list to take out all occurances.

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The problem is there are plenty of legitimate words that happen to have these words inside of them. I know a poker site that wouldn't let you say the word basement because it had the word semen in it.

[Wetdog]

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What about if you're getting around the filter to use a word "legitimately" like "My dog's a b1tch" or "I had to bring in that f*ggot of wood."

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Well bitch isn't censored and nobody uses [censored] like that.

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I tried to use it like that fairly recently. Admittedly, it's rare.

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In the 50's and early 60's a cigarette was referred to as a f a g. At least among the hip young people in the movies it was.

[Lori]

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However, if posters play the game the way that Twoplustwo wants it played, they know that if sh*t is censored, so should sh*tbagger be, and that they shouldn't use such a word.

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Why doesn't this apply to moderators?

[stabn]

oh no, looks like dids used:

[censored]ton
[censored]loads
[censored]load
cluster[censored]
and
[censored]tarded

Of those probably only [censored]tarded is used in a way that it could be offensive. We could either:

teach dids to use the spacebar.
Cry about him using them.
Warn him they aren't being censored
or
add them to the filter.

Obviously i know which one lori prefers.

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OR BAN HIM FOREVER!!!

[Lori]

Does this mean those words are okay?

Also, the words starting with s and c might be fun to use if we're allowed. Although at least one of those was deleted recently by admin, so I'm not so sure.

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