(tye)Re: Robust Anti-Swear script

And once users realize that they are being filtered, some of them will find it a challange to get past the filter and so the filter may actually result in an increase in offensive chatting.

I recall a case where the source of the filter was identified and chat like "Bob, that is a big, stinky pile of Azhrarn and you know it" started showing up.

So one should probably make the filter very specific and rather simple so that it isn't much of an interesting challenge to get past and just catches the casual first use of a forbidden word as a reminder that such is not appreciated. This will catch the occasional "slip" by a well-meaning user while being less likely to inflame much of a response to the filter itself.

Though even that has a good chance of being more of a problem than it is worth.

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: (tye)Re: Robust Anti-Swear script by Xxaxx (Monk) on Aug 02, 2001 at 23:57 UTC
Tye has some very good points. I run a couple of forums on which I've implemented a simple word list filter. I find that I've backed off to just a few very obvious words. If one of these words show in text I replace with the Times Newspaper approved sustitute and also send myself a message. Usually the substitution is enough to handle the immediate situation. If when the human (or semi-human) moi reviews the alerts a further action is required then further action is taken. But at this point the permutations of okay versus not okay are too complex for a simple bot to handle. I've found that the simple substitution has sent a gentle message that certain language is not approved and most folks have either backed off or found a new and less offensive means of responding to each other. In the few cases where the user was obviously way over the line I chose to implement a ban filter on that user. This was decided and implemented by the semi-human. Claude	[reply]

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Re: (tye)Re: Robust Anti-Swear script
by Xxaxx (Monk) on Aug 02, 2001 at 23:57 UTC

I run a couple of forums on which I've implemented a simple word list filter.

I find that I've backed off to just a few very obvious words. If one of these words show in text I replace with the Times Newspaper approved sustitute and also send myself a message.

Usually the substitution is enough to handle the immediate situation. If when the human (or semi-human) moi reviews the alerts a further action is required then further action is taken. But at this point the permutations of okay versus not okay are too complex for a simple bot to handle.

I've found that the simple substitution has sent a gentle message that certain language is not approved and most folks have either backed off or found a new and less offensive means of responding to each other.

In the few cases where the user was obviously way over the line I chose to implement a ban filter on that user. This was decided and implemented by the semi-human.

Claude

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