Context for the Auto-Censor, please!

[tonic]

I've just got a perfectly kosher word censored by what I assume would be a robot in the system. The word was "****ensian" and it came out as "****ensian"!

Now I can't see a way around this problem - "****ens" has to start with the verboten root, "****". Teach the robot some <u>context</u> please, admin!

Edit: Sure enough, it's demonstrated here as well. OK remove the hyphens to get the four banned letters in sequence: D-i-c-k.

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[SuperSneak]

I agree completely! I was pretty shocked and bemused when I referred to D I C K ens in one of my first posts and got edited.
In a way, it's a good thing: we ARE smarter than computers (for awhile, anyways).
****ens, ****ens, ****ens!


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Bring it!

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[MarkG]

let's see if it got smarter

****
dickens
********
****
****ing

tonic, i didnt get the other word you mentioned("****ensian")

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[Paul]

Dickensian - of Dickens or his works; resembling situations described in them.

Edit: ok that works. So now we can talk about Dickens. How about **** van ****?
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[tonic]

Paul, that's not going to be possible I think.

Well I noticed the perverse posters who like their words strong sidestep the issue by using punctuation eg D-ick.

Thanks for the solution MarkG. I guess like spelling checks it's a case of specifying a ban on the complete word of four or five letter only - not when it's used as prefix.

[Kumiorava]

hmmm...

testing

di<font></font>ck

Yup. That's how you can do it if you must... Just look it up from the source html of this page if you need it.
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[Mao]

...or...you can just click on edit from Kumi's post to see how to do it

...did I just ruin the fun? Sorry.

[Kumiorava]

YES!

Bad Mao! Bad!

*Kumi shakes finger at Mao!*

[Drow]

Isn't Dick a man's first name?

[Mao]

Yes, and a cockerspaniel is a dog, but that was still edited.

[Caesar]

Hmm.... testing...

****
*****
****
damn
ass
bastard
****
penis
vagina
****
****

One last test...

****ens

[Caesar]

f-uck
b-itch
d-ick
c-ock
c-unt

all got censored... the rest were left on...
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[Caesar]

Wait a sec... ******* is censored but ass isn't

edit: (is that b/c of words like assassin etc)
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[Empress]

some people and their hyphens just have to push the limits....

[Lazarus and the Gimp]

A quick test....

S****horpe.