[thelist] Re: Banned words

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Fri May 31 07:44:00 CDT 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Jason wrote:
>I'm currently building a system so that users can attach comments to
>articles on a site. Problem is people might put naughty words (eg
>swearing) in the comment.

>Is there a list of suggested banned words anywhere on the net? I want to
>filter out the foulmouthings and put *'s in instead.

Hi Jason

Yes you can do this, but you need to be a bit careful. Either you can allow
users to put swear words inside other words (which defeats the object) or
you can search within words (in which case you have situations like
blocking people mentioning the *entire* town of Scunthorpe).

Either way, it's not an ideal situation...

Cheers
Martin

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