There is no perfect solution, as the kiddies will always find ways around them. Let's face it, if it takes you 10 hours to think up something, it may take them 1000 hours to figure out a way around it, but if there's 10,000 people banging away at it, then it's over in 6 minutes.

Think of the problems you have with: shittake mushrooms, Fucking, Austria, "I scraped my knee", hockey players named Satan, and so many more that it makes conversation quite awkward.

If you want to do the "right" thing, then make sure you match on word-breaks (i.e. /\bcrap\b/) and that your list is fairly extensive. Even then, the context often determines the meaning of words.

In reply to Re: Robust Anti-Swear script by tadman
in thread Robust Anti-Swear script by Azhrarn

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