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Re: Profanity again
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Date:
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Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:27:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote:
(snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said)
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I always figured it’d be funny to replace people’s swears automatically on
the server.
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IIRC classic-castle.com has implemented just such a mechanism in their chat,
everything profane that the filter substitutes for gets turned into
“MegaBloks”. It’s actually rather amusing, just as you surmise it would be.
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The odd part, however, is that it makes it difficult to talk about various clone
brands. For instance:
“I MegaBloks hate stupid Megabloks”
but the best part is, not just curse words are filtered out - certain other
terms/words that offend yer average Castle-person are also filtered (words like
“trains” or “space” or “buttermilk biscuits”)
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Also IIRC the site admins refine the filter based on observed behaviour.
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The unfortunate side of the equation, is that sometimes ‘MegaBloks’ is
conversationally understood to be the actual curse word - which can lead to some
problems. Or, in a lighter sense, if you were to actually write “MegaBloks” -
someone might remind you to refrain from cursing.
-Lenny
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 | | Re: Profanity again
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote: (snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said) (...) IIRC classic-castle.com has implemented just such a mechanism in their chat, everything profane that the filter substitutes for gets turned into (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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