[thelist] Re: Banned words

[Liam Delahunty]

Jason Cartwright wrote:

>I have thought about this and decided that I can use the banned words
>list to flag the potentially dodgy comments for moderation in the
>backend, whilst still displaying them on the frontend.

>This would eliminate the problem of 'false positives' (such as
>Scunthorpe) yet also minimise the time admins spend on moderation.

>Also - I'll put a 'Report comment' next to the comment on the frontend,
>allowing users to flag dodgy comments.

>> martin.p.burns@*.*.*
>> 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).

Another idea is to count the hits per message as (some) people who swear in
posts tend to do it a lot; so count the banned words and if high don't post
it immediately and flag for admin approval. You could keep a tally for
banned words per IP address which may help a little with repeat offenders,
so you could filter out all posts by certain individuals.

Unless it's a requirement of the project perhaps you might consider a switch
and/or possible options for the filter, so users can see all the messages in
all the gory glory if they chose to, while others may choose a beeped option
(S***thorpe), and the rest only see dodgy messages (such as those containing
Scunthorpe) once they've been approved by the admin.

best,
Liam


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