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Re: Bye, bye LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:34:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jason S. Mantor wrote:
> Paul Sinasohn wrote:
> > IMHO,
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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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> umm... I think you underestimate just how fast the lugnet server
> hardware is and that the posts are already indexed to be searchable.
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> This url (which has been sanitized) found all occourances of one
> of 7 dirty words in 0.2 seconds. To get them all would take negligable
> time and effort .
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> try it yourself : )
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> http://news.lugnet.com/?q=fsck
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> things like spaces, etc can easily be filtered with a regex.
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> -JSM
A chat site that my wife used to use had a similar profanity replacement
program, it replaced the words with amusing alternative that sometime gave a
clue to the original word. However, with a bit of testing it was obvious that:
A: There were many words missing from the dictionary, especially regional
variations.
B: It was very easy to subvert with alternative characters, spelling etc.
This means that to stop a determined profanist (or what ever the word is) the
dictionary would have to be huge. Luckily there aren't many here!
Tim
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