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08-19-2006
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Censoring words in my posts?!?!?!?
This is a post I put on one of my shots in the gallery. Why is the name of the African nation that rhymes with Tiger, censored out?
"I walked by this little one table french place, and snapped this shot. I walked in an asked her about things. She is from *****, is French speaking of course, and says the crepes are very good. This little place is very unique. Very quiet and very out of place, out of time. Very unusual. I intend to go back next week and have something there (I was penniless at the moment of this photo)."
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08-19-2006
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Did I not spell that country's name correctly? n-i-g-e-r. . . ? Right?
***** - ha ha! did it again!
of course, it doesn't actually rhyme with tiger. neezhair. . .
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You are not incorrect in your spelling of N-I-G-E-R, the RFF BBS software has this word on the bad word list and kills it automatically. The software has that word misspelled (assuming it was meant to remove the word with 2 letters "G").
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It does seem like that's carrying Political Correctness a bit too far, doesn't it? Next time, George, write about a woman from Cameroon. So far today that's two places where women are from that is considered NOT-PC.
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It'd be fun to t.est which words are on the list.
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How about ***** and ***. Are they on the list?
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Those are bad ones! How about ******************* ?
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Originally Posted by FrankS
Those are bad ones! How about ******************* ?
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Oh yeah. I just tested a whole bunch of them. As* and As*h*** aren't on the list though.
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Originally Posted by FrankS
Those are bad ones! How about ******************* ?
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Holy smokes... the darn thing can bleep out bad words in both American ~and~ Canadian. Talk about Big Brother! |
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what the puck are you guys doing.
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Hum it seams puck is not on the list.
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It should be *****ia.
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I typed N I G E R I A !
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Originally Posted by BrianShaw
It does seem like that's carrying Political Correctness a bit too far, doesn't it? Next time, George, write about a woman from Cameroon. So far today that's two places where women are from that is considered NOT-PC.
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I don't think "political correctness" has anything to do with it. Just a crappy program that doesn't know how to spell (or can't understand context). |
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They should censor the people who can't spell from implementing software in the first place. Makes the use of correct language reedeekulos
Mai too sense 
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reminds me of that monty python song 
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There's my Proctor-Silex!
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You guys are going to keep the moderators very busy adding words to the censor list. The word censor list uses wild cards. The entry hasselb* would censor out hasselblad, hasselblader, and hasselblading. 
I am the adult supervisor on a high school student BB. With wildcards we can get away with only 10 words. And NO!, I wil not tell you those words. 
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Maybe we'll all have to resort to leet-speak:
"She is from |\|1g3r, is French speaking of course..."
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I understand why we have this system. It makes sense to censor such language, because trolls exist. They exist purely to destroy places like this - and language is one way they do that.
Bugger.
and one particularly vile Mexican variation of the same concept
Last edited by sf : 08-19-2006 at 23:25.
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08-20-2006
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Seriously, if you find an error in the programming send a PM to Jorge.
Otherwise *********** |
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Let's try the English town of Scunthorpe to see if the wildcards work.
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Or The English town of Penistone? Or Chipping Sodbury ?
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My Red Dot Glows For You
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I hope the titmouse and the woodpecker aren't on the list.
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Lets try japaneses megacorps like Matsu****a
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See, the power of regular expressions at work.
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