Language Petition

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by DanQ
DarkCloud:
We have done a considerable amount of work in filtering out words that are considered "across the board" or offensive. Unfortunately, there are ways that people can get around those methods.

So why don't you make your methods more sophisticated?

How hard is it to convert all A to Z and a to z to the real char before the censor is activated?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Gramphos
How hard is it to convert all A to Z and a to z to the real char before the censor is activated?

care to explain that a bit more?

[spartak]

Can the mods also avoid inappropriate language?

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21823&pagenumber=2

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by paiktis22
I was browsing through the posts in work, and a jewish person just happened to pass behind me when the avatar of GianCarlo was on screen...

Well, if the current avatar (at that time) is still Erwin Rommel, then that Jewish person shouldn't feel too bothered. Rommel's wife (Lucie Molin Rommel) was half Polish, her uncle was a somewhat prominent Catholic priest who opposed the actions of the SS/SD and was murdered by the Nazis, and in the North Africa campain, after taking a primarily Jewish brigade prisoner at Bir Hacheim, he defied SD standing orders to segregate Jewish prisoners and turn them over to the SD. They were instead mixed anonymously in with all other British Eighth Army POWs. Rommel also refused the request of white British officers to have segregated facilities for the "colored" troops of the Eighth Army (there were Indian, (soon to be) Pakistanis, and South African units among the Eighth Army troops. What's surprising (no doubt due to ignorance about his actions) is that Gian picked a Rommel avatar. If it's another one, then he's had more than a few.

[spartak]

Thanks for addressing my point MtG

[MichaeltheGreat]

ooops - hit the edit button in the above post by mistake

Originally posted by Gramphos

So why don't you make your methods more sophisticated?

How hard is it to convert all A to Z and a to z to the real char before the censor is activated?

People can embed HTML tags with nothing in between them, use spaces, etc. - there are lots of possible permutations for bypassing the censor feature. Then creative mispe!!ings and vârÃàti0ns. If people want to bypass it, they'll find a way, unless we do several dozen (at least) combinations for each censored word.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Gasmaske
Thanks for addressing my point MtG

What point was that? All I see in the hardman thread is Kitty's lame joke that hardman became a poly mod.

Since I hadn't posted in the thread, you linking to it in your post indicated to me that you were addressing someone else.

[spartak]

Sorry wrong link

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21988

Do you really have to use terms like W*****R?

[MattHiggs]

Do you really have to use terms like AC*L?

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Sorry wrong link

Originally posted by Gasmaske

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21988

Do you really have to use terms like W*****R?

What <em>are</em> you talking about?

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by MarkG
care to explain that a bit more?

As the censor checks for bad words in the posts by searching for them a way to go around this is to use the HTLMcodes for one of the characters instead of the real characters. in HTML you write &amp;#ASCIInumber; to get a specific char. (I think &amp;ASCIInumber; works in some browsers).

The ASCIInumbers 65-90 is A-Z and 97-122 is A-Z.
By replacing them with the real char before the check will avoid some words slips past.

for example the thread 'A "bulls&#104;it generator" should provide future techs' form the Civ 3 forum can be written without Censor if you replace any of the chars with the HTMLcode. In this case I replaces 'h' with "&amp;#104;"

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
People can embed HTML tags with nothing in between them, use spaces, etc. - there are lots of possible permutations for bypassing the censor feature. Then creative mispe!!ings and vârÃàti0ns. If people want to bypass it, they'll find a way, unless we do several dozen (at least) combinations for each censored word.

That is true. I know there is ways to check for words ignoring HTML-tags but they would take some time to run. And using spaces is almost impossible to stop without ignoring spaces in the check, but then would a lot of other words be censored (English Italy and German is languages would become Engli** **aly and German is languages) and that isn't good. To that comes other fill up chars as '-'. So you are right you can't stop everything, but the more you stop the less bad words will be in the forum.
About mispe!!ings and vârÃàti0ns there is nothing that can be done. The only thing to do about that is to add to the rules of the forum that try to get around the censor (in any way) would be punished.

PS. Why did you edit my post?

[Winston]

Originally posted by Gramphos
PS. Why did you edit my post?

It was a mistake, as MtG stated in the subject of his 11:13 post.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Winston
It was a mistake, as MtG stated in the subject of his 11:13 post.

That was why nothing had changed...
I missed the subject as I was writing a response to Mark and I saw MtG's post in the Topic Review (No subjects).

The server must have been down again as is seems as if MtG posted before Mark.

Winston How did you know I used GMT+1...

[spartak]

Re: Re: Sorry wrong link

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


What <em>are</em> you talking about?

well MtG posted

It's only a few of the pathetic wankers.

I presume that Wanker is now official 'Poly language.

Can a mod confirm that I can use Wanker?

[spartak]

Originally posted by MattHiggs
Do you really have to use terms like AC*L?

Where did I refer to ACOL?