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Wishlist: block posting of a reply if it contain banned words

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oliversl

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Jun 29, 2007
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Hi,
this is a wishlist or feature request.

It would be really helpful if when you click on the "submit" button to post your reply or new post, a message appears that says "you use the xx banned word".

So that when you honestly didn't know that a word is marked as an insult in this forum, you can delete that word and avoid the waste of moderation time.

Thanks
Oliver
 
rdowns

rdowns

macrumors Penryn
Jul 11, 2003
27,397
12,521
No thanks. I think it's a ****ing ridiculous suggestion. The forum software already censors enough words.
 
Mac'nCheese

Mac'nCheese

Suspended
Feb 9, 2010
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I don't think moderators act on banned words. They just get censored. They act when someone reports a post. ****
 
Comeagain?

Comeagain?

macrumors 68020
Feb 17, 2011
2,190
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Spokane, WA
Context is key. For example, if "dick" was on the censored list:

"My friend Dick and I went fishing." and "You're such a dick!" would both give an error, even though one is perfectly acceptable.
 
Doctor Q

Doctor Q

Administrator
Staff member
Sep 19, 2002
39,795
7,540
Los Angeles
Very few words are banned in all cases. A few four-letter words, racial slurs, etc. Those words turn to ****** automatically.

There are plenty of words that are inappropriate when used to post personal insults directed at other forum users, but fine in many other circumstances, e.g.,
You are an idiot. <--- disallowed

The governor of my state is an idiot. <--- allowed

I must have been an idiot to buy that (whatever). <--- allowed
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We don't have a way to automate that determination, so users report the inappropriate posts and the moderators review the reports. The word isn't the problem. But how it's used may be against the rules.

It would be great if it could be more automatic. Perhaps Siri's semantic analysis techniques could help us!
 
Dr McKay

Dr McKay

macrumors 68040
Aug 11, 2010
3,430
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Kirkland
The town near me has enough problems. Their Council workers emails get blocked by nearly everyones spam filtering because oh the town name.

Scunthorpe. :D
 
gnasher729

gnasher729

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Nov 25, 2005
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Dr McKay said:
The town near me has enough problems. Their Council workers emails get blocked by nearly everyones spam filtering because oh the town name.

Scunthorpe. :D
Click to expand...

Another website checked for "unacceptable" words inside other words, and replaced them with their site name.

I kept wondering why posts contained strange words like "spemacrumorsed" (well, it was another website) until I figured it out: Someone had used the word "specialised". The bit in the middle was deemed unacceptable, which is daft in the first place, but instead of replacing it with stars spe******ed they replaced it with the name of the site, so it became "spemacrumorsed".
 
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