profanity filter

[RTHolmes]

got a warning about suspending chat privs for typing  *scupcake*  on 200. filter needs fixing.

dammit, does it on here to. ok without the spaces: *s-n-i-g-g-e-r*

[Tec]

Well jeez, I just can't understand why that would be filtered. [/sarcasm]

[Nwbie]

if you meant - snicker - then you need to learn to spell
if you meant to type a word most used to describe black people in a derogatory manner, but hide it with an s in the beginning, you need to grow up and be muted.

[1701E]

From what I can find on Dictionary sites the word in question means the same as "snicker".

From "The Free Dictionary, by Farlex":
S-----r
Noun
a quiet and disrespectful laugh kept to oneself
Verb
to utter such a laugh [variant of snicker]

[RTHolmes]

I'm not playing dumb here - I know why its filtered.

snicker and s-n-i-g-g-e-r are synonyms. snicker is hardly ever used in english although widespread in US english, I always assumed s-n-i-g-g-e-r was also in use in US english (I may be wrong on this.) If you say snicker to a brit they think you are talking about a Mars bar with peanuts in.

I'd just like the pattern matching to ignore s-n-i-g-g-e-r, because its a great (and legitimate) word. maybe its the only example of a legitimate word which has a banned word as part of it? cant think of any other examples off the top of my head.

this is the difference in PERL:

s/nicker/lover/                /* as it is now
s/[^s]nicker/lover/            /* allows snicker through but catches nicker

[Tec]

Even if they took it off the list you would probably either get .reported or end up having to explain it to a bunch of pissed off people every time you used it.  Also you know there are some out there who would use it in a tasteless manner.  Now that I think about it we should have the same filter in game that we have in here.

[Twist]

Time to find a new word.

Chuckle

Chortle

Guffaw

Plenty of them out there.

[macleod01]

I understand where RT is coming from here. Certainly in English, it is a lot more common to say snig.... instead of a common junk food which the glaswegians deep fry  I would say it without thinking, therefore I could be muted? I probarbly wouldn't know what it was I had said. I second RT's request to let this word through. Crickey, I could come up with hundreds of words that are said in Scots that would probarbly get me banned as well. At least Snig... is recognised by a portion of the community

[drdeathx]

RT u really are offensive with this post. This guys  needs to be banned from AH!

[Spikes]

RT u really are offensive with this post. This guys  needs to be banned from AH!

Err...wow.

[RTHolmes]

hehe spikes, I assume there should have been <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags around that one

[RTR]

Rule 12 should be changed to read " All posts should be in the American language", as it does not resemble the Kings English in any way.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled BBS.

RTR

[Banshee7]

Rule 12 should be changed to read " All posts should be in the American language", as it does not resemble the Kings English in any way.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled BBS.

RTR

I hope thats sarcasm there too.  With this game being played by people from ALL over the world it's almost impossible to say you "have to speak/type English (American)."

[Bronk]

I hope thats sarcasm there too.  With this game being played by people from ALL over the world it's almost impossible to say you "have to speak/type English (American)."

I say rule 12 should apply.
12- All posts, in public forums, should be made in the English language.
 

[Anaxogoras]

slover?

What about "niggardly," can I say that?