The word filter is out of control

1,234 Views | 5 Replies | Last: 7 yr ago by haircut
biobioprof
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Things that have been censored recently:

I understand the following, but think they're overkill:

Host of CBS News' Face the Nation John ****erson
Former Clinton advisor **** Morris
Former Vice President of the US **** Cheney

I'm guessing that this one is based on phonetic similarity to a banned word, but it's still dumb:

Texas A&M has a world-renowned Center for ****e Technology
The Collective
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Cock isn't filtered though. Makes zero sense.
byfLuger41
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Why isn't ass or **** being filtered?


edit: I guess you guys fixed ****. I read it yesterday and got excited. Was ass ever filtered?
Hood
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Only if you combine it with hole.
Bregxit
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You'd think with all the features that have been added, we could have an "I am a grown-up" button and turn the darned thing off. I bet you would even get a miniscule performance increase since the filtering is done server side every time a page is requested as evidenced by hitting quote on mobile to see what the "bad word" actually was.
NoHo Hank
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The word filter is stupid as all get out and should be removed.
haircut
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Go sp alert yourself, OP
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