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Re: Profanity again
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:06:21 GMT
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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.
Also IIRC the site admins refine the filter based on observed behaviour.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Profanity again
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| (...) As much as I don't care for the implied disparaging of my favorite brand, I have to admit that this is a pretty funny failsafe. Dave! (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: Profanity again
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| (...) I always figured it'd be funny to replace people's swears automatically on the server. So if someone swore, their text would quickly get turned into something a bit tamer. Something like: s/freaking/buttermilk buscuit/gi s/bullpoop/muffin/gi (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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