Filtering on the forum

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Originally Posted by Invent

It's a silly reason though as a mod like this would cause 0 security issues unless you suck at PHP.

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Well I am not expert so will leave it to you who are! :D

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Originally Posted by iAdam

More work for our already busy scripting team for a feature that would create more problems than it would solve, if it would actually solve any

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Scripting team!?! If you are talking about me and robbie, we are both free ;)

Habbox Forum is in it's 6th year of service and we've had a filter since the beginning.

It's never been a problem, there is no need for swearing at all, it is dirty and gives off very bad impressions.

I just don't see why people want to swear when a post can be displayed in a more attractive, intelligent manner when written properly without profanity?

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Originally Posted by Oli

Habbox Forum is in it's 6th year of service and we've had a filter since the beginning.

It's never been a problem, there is no need for swearing at all, it is dirty and gives off very bad impressions.

I just don't see why people want to swear when a post can be displayed in a more attractive, intelligent manner when written properly without profanity?

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Everything here in bold I agree with. Its been fine for 6 years, and hopefully, it will be fine for 6 more years to come. Sure there are some things in the filter that could do with tweaking, me matt and garion had a go at trying to remove some things recently.

I don't agree with the rest (if anyone cares), but thats all subject to opinion anyway so not everyone will agree.

I don't know if this is still the case, but in the past I have seen mods advising people to preview posts when they've been unsure whether certain words were allowed, to check if they had been filtered before publishing. But this idea would mean that someone could easily post a rude or offensive word which hasn't been filtered but is still against the rules without even realising it.

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Originally Posted by Sergio

I don't know if this is still the case, but in the past I have seen mods advising people to preview posts when they've been unsure whether certain words were allowed, to check if they had been filtered before publishing. But this idea would mean that someone could easily post a rude or offensive word which hasn't been filtered but is still against the rules without even realising it.

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Then one of the Moderators would deal with that and tell the user that the word isn't allowed.

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Originally Posted by Darkenemy

Hey,
I think there should be a feature on the forum were users can choose to have swear words filtered or unfiltered (like habbo), yes fair enough if people swear at each other that's bad, but they get warned anyway. If I said to some "**** off you stupid ****" I'd get warned wouldn't I?

Have the filter pre-set on accounts, we are not all 10 years old. Yes there's going to be arguments "why do we need this?", personally I think we need it because when silly words like (in spoiler below) are filtered it makes you feel like a child. Users should be treated like they have some maturity, but your not giving them the opportunity to be mature if your treating them like children.

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Try turn this thread into a heap of rubbish if you like, its just my opinion and feedback.


Hope it helps!
Richard.

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You've suggested this before, a few months ago and nvr said it couldn't be done. Mentor's post here explains why:

http://www.habboxforum.com/showpost....9&postcount=41.

Also my view is that mature users need not swear, it is only tantrum throwing children that need to curse at someone with all names under the sun.

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Originally Posted by Sergio

I don't know if this is still the case, but in the past I have seen mods advising people to preview posts when they've been unsure whether certain words were allowed, to check if they had been filtered before publishing. But this idea would mean that someone could easily post a rude or offensive word which hasn't been filtered but is still against the rules without even realising it.

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If it's a rude or offensive word then it will have been used for a rude/offensive purpose, thus will be against more than one rule :P

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Originally Posted by Jamesy

You've suggested this before, a few months ago and nvr said it couldn't be done. Mentor's post here explains why:

http://www.habboxforum.com/showpost....9&postcount=41.

Also my view is that mature users need not swear, it is only tantrum throwing children that need to curse at someone with all names under the sun.

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If Mentor is correct that the filter is added at the time of posting then that doesn't make it an impossible coding job. There are ways to add the functionality without adding a huge overhead when loading posts.

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Originally Posted by MattGarner

Then one of the Moderators would deal with that and tell the user that the word isn't allowed.

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I thought you were against the idea! :P

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Originally Posted by Oli

If it's a rude or offensive word then it will have been used for a rude/offensive purpose, thus will be against more than one rule :P

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What I meant was; say for example, the 'F' word had been forgotten when they were filtering words and someone with the filter turned off typed it in a post, for example; 'I'm ******* bored', they would never realise the word hadn't actually been filtered to everyone else.