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Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:14:20 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Sinasohn wrote:
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And what happens when you analyze this sentence:
I was trying to finish it, but the earthquake smashed the bricks.
One of the 7 words is in that sentence, with a space in the middle of it, so
you
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I see your point, but I would not want to filter this one, for obvious reasons.
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It would take a huge amount of processing power to analyze the text of every
single post. THat’s why human brains do it here, not computers.
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You don’t need a foolproof language filter, nor can it be made 100% foolproof
either, IMHO. When you take out the ‘foolproof’ requirement, this sort of filter
becomes quite easy.
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can’t use a wildcard for pattern recognition. And what if you miss a form of
the word (such as the “miniF$#$%%” in the original post) when you try to
compile a ‘complete’ list of unacceptable words?
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(Begin technical speak - I am a web developer)
I know for sure PHP (my favorite web app platform) can do it with a simple
substitution:
$filtered_posting = str_replace($dirty_words, "&!@#^!%", $unfiltered_posting);
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Where $dirty_words is a list of known dirty words to filter out.
(End technical speak)
Whatever lugnet uses, something similar could be whipped up for sure. And it
doesn’t take that much processing power for something like this, even when doing
it on the fly for those who want things sanitized.
I believe this is the level being achieved by Everquest’s filter that Dave
mentioned.
And it can still be easily turned off.
And it is enough for the masses.
Sure you won’t catch intentionally obfuscated nasty words, but there is still
the human defense, no?
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Though I don’t know if it is technially possible, a better way to handle these
situations would be to grant the original poster access to the message
somehow, even if after the fact.
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I would agree with you on this one. Let them cancel their posts.
Keith
PS. This is a nice break from posting in .technic all the time. :-P
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