Ya know, these cross word kittenings make various benign posts really hard to figure out what the kitty they are talking about.
I think maybe the filter should be loosened up a bit (stop scanning across whitespace), and the penalties for purposefully trying to bypass it with whitespace and periods should be harsh. Something like a warning and then a really long or permanent suspension of your forum posting privileges.
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I’ll also point out that to some extent, this behavior makes the forums more vulgar.
Example: some one says something like: while they’re at" "it.
This becomes: while they’re akitten.
Now, I have to sort through my head of what swear words might have triggered this, so I can determine what they were saying. I now have all these vulgar thoughts running through my mind, with the one that matched lingering in my head a bit longer.
For a good example on how the mind works in these situations, search youtube for Jimmy Kimmel’s recurring bit titled “This Week in Unnecessary Censorship”. Hilarious in a late night talk show. Disturbing in a forum like this.
PS – I’ve actually picked up on some new racial slurs from this forum. Not the kind of education I was expecting.
I call the forum filter, the Puritan filter. Not only does it see filth and sin everywhere, it makes you see it too.
The good thing about’ it is, it’s expanding my vocabulary of racial insults and vulgar words as well as teaching me to see the hidden vulgar words in the most innocent of places. Such as tkittenonhawke. Googled it to learn another insult. /sarcasm
Hi, just want to note that it’s possible to code things so that certain words are exempt from the blanket ‘kitten censor’. For instance, the abbreviation for ‘away from keyboard’ gets censored because of the f followed by a k, which…looks like the f-word I guess?
It’s silly to have things like “want it” censored because the person typoed and left out the space, and the forum thinks they are talking about breasts.
And we all know what would happen if you wanted to talk about a certain dagger-wielding profession from GW1.
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It’s silly to have things like “want it” censored because the person typoed and left out the space, and the forum thinks they are talking about breasts.
This piece of trash filter will do that to me regardless of the space being there – I know because I go back to edit in an underscore instead, and the space is definitely there. Of course we can see how well that works for them, since apparently all one has to do if they are trying to swear is replace spaces with some other random character. Then once they break language in general even more by having it ignore those, they’ll need to deal with phonetic alphabets and rhyming slang…
I’m surprised they don’t have us talking in pre-selected phrases yet.
Put in a bug report thread, and wrote “wakitten by the skill”. Yeah — the original text is “was” followed by the phrase “hit by the skill”. I’ll bet that all of the other instance of the word “hit” after any other word that ends with s is censored too.
It’s understandable to have a word censor in place. It’s plain idiotic to filter common English phrases on the off chance that maybe it forms a swear word.
I don’t really see why you would want to block words that are separated by a space anyway. I mean, if I want to write “who recognizes this character?”, I will have to avoid the filter with “who|recognizes” or something similar… but I could also do that to call someone a who|re if I wanted to (not like I’d do such a thing). That means filtering swear-words with spaces in between doesn’t prevent anyone from actual swearing/insulting, but it makes normal sentences hard to read because there’s kitten around every other corner.
Edit: Apparently, the “who recognizes” problem was indeed fixed; but I think there are still more words where stuff like this can happen.
Since the one without an apostrophe is actually the possessive one, and ‘it is’ is the one with the apostrophe.
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It’s because of what you get if you take a “t” and add “its”. Stuff like ’ actually manages to fool the filter; thus “it’s” doesn’t toggle it. That’s why I also don’t understand why they made the filter trigger on unwanted words with spaces in between… after all, it’s still possible to write those words with adding other stuff between letters, and all it does is messing up normal sentences.
. Sadly there is a hidden swear word on it.