Profanity filter?
 

Alright, this may seem a bit silly, but I think it's more for fun than anything.


One of the things I love the most about the forums over at bungie.net is that whenever someone posts a swear, it gets swapped out for [code]-blam!-[/code]. Now, I realize there's a lot less swearing here than most places, but on the other hand, when I really do want to do it, I kinda feel bad. Having such a filter would let people have fun -- both by swearing, not having to worry about what people think, and seeing a -blam!- appear in place. It's a great replacement phrase -- really makes it fun.

What do you think? (Qu'est-ce que vous en pensez? Is it just too late at night?)







[SIZE="1"][I]Bonus points if you figure out what caused me to post this.[/I][/SIZE]

A filter was applied here in the past and it caused some unexpected side-effects.

I think it is best to let the humans decide if something is offensive/inappropriate. A simple word substitution filter is not a good thing and just looks silly IMO.

Now don't forget we have this: :censored:

[QUOTE="Ziggy Stardust"]...[B]Hey man, my schooldays insane[/B]
[B]Hey man, my work's down the drain[/B]
[B]Hey man, well she's a total [COLOR=navy]-blam! -blam![/COLOR][/B]
[B]She said she had to squeeze it, but she, and then she... :censored:[/B]

[B]Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket[/B]
[B]Back from Suffragette City[/B]
[B]Oh don't lean on me man[/B]
[B]Cause you ain't got time to check it[/B]
[B]You know my Suffragette City[/B]
[B]Is outta sight...she's all right[/B]
[/QUOTE]
[B]...Ohhh, wham bam :censored: you ma'am![/B]

[QUOTE=Dubslow;290833]but on the other hand, when I really do want to do it, I kinda feel bad. Having such a filter would let people have fun -- both by swearing, not having to worry about what people think, and seeing a -blam!- appear in place. It's a great replacement phrase -- really makes it fun. [/QUOTE]

You could always replace it your -blam!-ing self. :smile: The downside is that people might not get what you mean because it's not a universal thing.

Best filter of this kind I ever saw, and the funniest, is the one implemented in the puzzlepirates(.com) game. You can select if you like to "beautify" your sentences, or "scupperify" them, or !@##$%#$%#!-ify them, etc. and you can make it talk Pirate-glish with you, really funny! We had a "Romanian" group of players there years ago, and the filter was an endless resource of fun when we were talking our Romanian over the chat channels in the game, the filter was correcting our grammar according with the English rules and with the words it believed are English, and it was beautifying the "bad" Romanian words (for example "cum" which means "how" in Romanian, like in "how did you do that?", he believed this was a "bad" English word, etc). The older players found ways to go around the filter and could make the typed words to appear in clear, which always intrigued the new players to the madness, they tried different ways and their words were always substituted with "good English words"...

Things like Facebook and Minecraft now do literally come in "Pirate English".

[QUOTE=Dubslow;291026]Things like Facebook and Minecraft now do literally come in "Pirate English".[/QUOTE]
These are too new for me :D Never owned a fb account and never played minecraft, tried once from my daughter, but I didn't like the graphic. If I remember correctly, I really liked the music, if it is the one with "just wait a moment I kill this pig pig pig pig", then I consider the song is much MUCH better then the original version :D

Beware, there be demons inside:

[url]http://www.psyclops.com/translator/translator.cgi?url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=290833&mode=pimp[/url]

Ye do not well to click:
[URL="http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=hckr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprimes.utm.edu%2Fmersenne%2Findex.html"]:cmd:[/URL]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;291031]Ye do not well to click:
[URL="http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=hckr&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprimes.utm.edu%2Fmersenne%2Findex.html"]:cmd:[/URL][/QUOTE]
hehe, nice one! thanks. LL test hackerized by that:

[CODE]
lucsa_leHmer_test() s := 4; fr0 i form 3 to p do s := s2-2 mud 2p-1; if s == 0then 2p-1 si prIme else 2p-1 is cOmpsOItE;[/CODE]
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Edit: found my link with the [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k2rDbRUDkds"]pig-pig-pig[/URL]. Better than the original methink.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;290833]Qu'est-ce que vous en pensez?[/QUOTE]
Je m'en -blam!-

Rodrigo