when a swearword is not a swearword

terra_ferma

hope this is the right forum, if not please move

would it be possible to fine tune the censorship system that picks up swear words, as sometimes it's a bit over the top?

just now:
Even the pin !!!!! skin testing
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3721981

I've seen other words containing the letters a. s. s and 'a.r....., that are not swearword, and also some innocent URLs, so just giving some feedback about it

scheming_gypsy

ass definitely isn't a swear word or offensive. In this country it's a donkey

coolcait

Ah yes.

Imagine if you were a poster from S!!!!horpe, who didn't want to !!!!!foot around the issue of skin !!!!! tests.

That would lead to a lot of exclamation marks!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

And why gh ouls? They're a type of ghost, for goodness' sake! Hardly a profanity!

terra_ferma

This must be a gem, stumbled upon this quote within a post while looking for Oldstyle recipes:

Quote:
Originally Posted by a!!!!!
I know it's hard, but the worse the food you eat, the worse you'll be, surely? It's a good argument for cooking when you're OK and freezing portions of nice healthy food for when you're not so good.

The name of the poster was a s h m i t


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/1089441#Comment_1089441
(no 15)

mazza111

Unfortunately it's always going to be one of those things. I used to run gaming servers and being international we tried to censor a lot of the words and keep them well run so that kids would have a safer place to have a game. So we tried a few languages in there, then we found out that the lady gamers couldn't talk about their fav soap opera EmMERDAle. Was several other ones that cropped up again and again, but that one did make me laugh. Joys of having a computer censored forum/server

Errata

The naughty words blocker is an off the shelf American one. !!!!less tits which fly around S!!!!horpe seeking an !!! to land on are out of luck if they want to make a post about it.

coolcait

Errata wrote: »

The naughty words blocker is an off the shelf American one. !!!!less tits which fly around S!!!!horpe seeking an !!! to land on are out of luck if they want to make a post about it.

Ah, that explains why you can talk about Arsenal and Arsene Wenger (should you wish to - and I don't :rotfl:)

I wonder how the filter would cope with the joke based on the (supposed) technical names for a rooster, a hen and a donkey/mule?

soccermom

coolcait wrote: »

Ah yes.

Imagine if you were a poster from S!!!!horpe, who didn't want to !!!!!foot around the issue of skin !!!!! tests.

That would lead to a lot of exclamation marks!

I'm from s!!!!horpe and it's a pain in the !!!! when i'm not allowed to write it Good job I live in newcastle now.