The entire endeavor is fraught with peril, young disciple. Here's but a small taste of what thou shalt encounter if thou continuest upon thy quest:
  1. Define what a "dirty word" is. The easy ones are, well, easy. But, what about "breast"? You going to block all recipes with "Add two chicken breasts"?
  2. Once you have that list, how are you going to match your candidate text against it? What about linebreaks? Whitespace? Punctuation (especially hypens and periods)?
  3. Unicode is most definitely not your friend here.
  4. Once you find a "dirty word", what are you going to do with it? What about the surrounding text?

Additionally, there was a meditation about a month ago that cited a study demonstrating that people decipher words based on three things - the first letter, the last letter, and the set of letters in the middle. For example, you know these words:

Yet, I can guarantee there is no filter for them.

An even worse problem, which is that profanity is context, not content, is demonstrated by the following examples:

Not a single "dirty word", yet their context is more offensive than most dirty words. (Arabs have refined swearing into an artform, you pus-dripping son of a motherless flea-bitten camel! *grins*)

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In reply to Don't even bother. (was Re: dirty word filter module?) by dragonchild
in thread dirty word filter module? by apprentice

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