I was reading through some of the recent posts today, and I came across this post. Being as it's reply was the only recent one nearby, it was in bold letters, and everything around it was faded, so it stood out like a sore thumb.

Now, I wouldn't mind so much, but my mom was standing right behind me! (Yes, I'm just a college student living at home for the summer). If you want it more personalized to you, imagine your boss, who takes offense easily, standing right behind you, and if he glances at the screen, hey, just maybe he'll read it.

On the other hand, I also think people should express themselves how they like, I think that's great, and I don't want to put an end to that.

So here's what I'm suggesting. Custom filters. I haven't completely thought through exactly how this would work, but I was thinking that there could be a regex on all of the text of the page to be displayed. I don't think this would slow down the site as a whole, because if a person didn't set any filters, none would run. So, maybe there's a textbox in the personal settings that a person can put in his or her own substitution regexes, new line delimited or soemthing, and they would be run in a for-loop. So, if I wanted to filter out a certain word, I could put in there /word/****/, which would filter out every occurance of 'word'.

Like I said, I don't think it would add too much lag to the site, especially if a person didn't have any set. I don't know how easy it would be to implement though. Well, that's my idea, let me know what you think.

-Bryan

In reply to Custom Word Filters by mrborisguy

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