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Originally Posted by Neversoft

Yeah thats what happened when I posted the s word assuming it would filter it and ended up getting an infraction that is aparrently fair. =/

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that happen to me the other day
then i got banned for it.
:@

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Originally Posted by Elkaa

From what I understand, this only happened on one day due to a few issues. I assume that nobody has had this problem since yesterday?

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I tested it twice today once in a pm and in a thread in the tech problem forum and its still the same i.e. not working. :)

i don't think people should be infracted if the server hasn't filtered it

Unless they obviously mean to avoid the filter like posting a character from character map instead of a vowel

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Originally Posted by Catzsy

Jamie, seriously have you thought about what you are saying here. The filter is for people not having to worry about that sort of thing. Why have it then?
We could all go around typing stars. :S Do you think Chris would intentionally
do this - I don't? I have just tested the filter with 2 swear words on my own forum and even if you put a question mark and fullstop after it it is still filtered and comes up as ****? or ****. There could be something something wrong with the Habbox filter set up and the infraction seems way unfair to me if that is the case. I just tested it in a pm to myself and it comes up infiltered. I can forward it if someone wants?

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Originally Posted by Catzsy

Hey, what you say is extremely unreasonable. If the forum filter has failed it has failed and I have proved it has failed - I will forward pm if you want me too.

People are allowed to type in words that are filtered - they have been since day 1 of the forum. In fact you used to do it all the time! Chris has been penalised for something that is the fault of a glitch in the VB Bulletin. Check the word out for yourself. Apart from that , Jamie I do not think it is up to you to re-write the forum rules. That's up to Elkaa, ---Mad--- and Sierk, surely? He did not intentionally avoid the filter and therefore it cannot be considered inappropriate either so he should most definitely if there is any fairness on the forum not have an infraction. Don't you realise that?

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Thank you Rosie!
I PMed Elkaa and he removed it.
I don't get why Jamie can't understand whats going on here.

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Originally Posted by jesus

He keeps saying he didn't intend on swearing though, so rather than use what he did why not use the word 'crap'?

He must have intended on the word being used as HE TYPED IT.

We punish inappropriate language. Whether it was filtered or not, he typed it. It makes sense, why doesn't anyone realise this?

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How can you not understand? =/ I DID NOT MEAN TO SWEAR.
I didn't say crap because why should I have to if the forum SHOULD have filtered the s word?
I never intended on using the actual word, I assumed it would come up as '****'. How many times do you want me to tell you this?

The filter didn't work. How was that my fault? Seriously, you're not thinking at all.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Has NeverSoft's infraction been removed? If people were meant to type alternative words like crap, then there would be no point in a filter. A simple PM or edit would do. If he put size=2 in areas, then infract him for purposely avoiding the filter. But if it was genuinely typed out, it isn't necessarily his fault because the filter is meant to take control and remove it.

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Yeah, it got removed. I hadn't altered the word, I just typed it normally but it didn't filter it.

[QUOTE=Neversoft;4568300]Thank you Rosie!
I PMed Elkaa and he removed it.
I don't get why Jamie can't understand whats going on here.

*Screams and pulls hair out*:eusa_wall I wish I knew it doesn't seem like rocket science to me :D :P Oh Well alls well that finally ends well, anyway and good for Elkaa.:eusa_danc

I really can't see why the discussion went in this direction. The point being raised was that there was a fault in the forum filter, causing an infraction for avoiding the filter (which it isnt because he didn't do anything to avoid it). Surely the response should be "Ok, I'll look into the bug, infraction reversed, corry for the inconvenience", I don't quite understand where the discussion came from.

Anyway, glad its being sorted :)

I think I have sorted it now. Let me know if there are any other problems :). Using formatting to avoid the filter is an infractionable offense.

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