MSE's Profanity Filter is ...

Freddie_Snowbits

I am a little fed up with the profanity filter on MSE. Firstly it lets me get up people's noses and pick things, like I can really get into their knickers, but when I mention my cat in real terms, it goes into overdrive. Pu55Y comes out as !!!!!!

Now if I were not from Fish Town, Grimsby, I coluld mention we all know who put the tea in Britain, but not S!!!!horpe.

Thank God my name is not Callahan!

shellsuit

I wondered what was wrong with Weightwatchers, but then realised the word slap bang in the middle lol (Weight Watchers incase you didn't realise )

EDIT ~ Oh it works properly now!

chrwil

S!!!!horpe

There's no beating it.

superscaper

Another bizarre one I first came across on another forum was typing snigger. Seems to work now on this forum (not sure if it always had) but on some forums it came out as "sblack person". So I guess the filter here isn't too bad compared to some, at least it doesn't think some forms of laughter are racist!

PopeSock

It could be worse. A while back, anyone from Clitheroe using AOL found mention of their town was flagged as bad language.

superscaper

PopeSock wrote: »

It could be worse. A while back, anyone from Clitheroe using AOL found mention of their town was flagged as bad language.

You mean it isn't bad language?

superscaper

Another one is say I wanted to say "it was a painful !!!!! of the pin". (I typed pr!ck)

*Louise*

Hehe

This board isn't too bad for profanities, on another forum I visited once, if you typed a swear word, it automatically changed it to a pre-set word, which made your whole post look daft.:rolleyes:

Examples: (Sorry for blanked swears here people)

S*** - appeared as 'hot chocolate.

The 'C' word showed up as 'entertainment centre'

@*** - fundamental orifice

Pu55y - Little furry cat


You can imagine the posts were hard to read :rotfl:


I don't see the need for people to swear on a forum, but I can understand it being annoying when you're just typing a normal word.

Just need to preview before posting, and edit accordingly.

Riq

PopeSock wrote: »

It could be worse. A while back, anyone from Clitheroe using AOL found mention of their town was flagged as bad language.

It's a pain somewhat when you went to school there too.

Then when you're at uni and people ask where you are from, you tell them and they all start laughing and you have no idea why. Took me 18 years to realise why Clitheroe was a rude looking word. Odd the things you don't notice if you have grown up with it.

pulliptears

*Louise* wrote: »

Hehe

This board isn't too bad for profanities, on another forum I visited once, if you typed a swear word, it automatically changed it to a pre-set word, which made your whole post look daft.:rolleyes:

Examples: (Sorry for blanked swears here people)

S*** - appeared as 'hot chocolate.

The 'C' word showed up as 'entertainment centre'

@*** - fundamental orifice

Pu55y - Little furry cat


You can imagine the posts were hard to read :rotfl:


I don't see the need for people to swear on a forum, but I can understand it being annoying when you're just typing a normal word.

Just need to preview before posting, and edit accordingly.

A board I used to visit changed band names a lot. If you typed in "boyzone" it was automatically replaced with "Talentless Irish Pr!cks"
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MothballsWallet

My Netgear router sometimes blocks MSE when I post certain words that aren't rude, but are product names, e.g., the little blue Pfizer pill.

The post goes through, but the router blocks the page update :mad:. I'll figure out its configuration one of these days...