FILTER

[Catzsy]

World of Warcraft has the option to turn off the "Profanity Filter", That's probley the most successful online game. But I'm just been picky, There is no Plugin currently as far as I can see written for an optional forum filter. As there has probley been no need for it .

So how does that work? People who have the filter on see ****** and those that dont see the swear words?

[today]

Yuh, same as habbo.

[Axel]

It wouldn't work on the forum. People have lasted years without swearing on Habbo(x). I see no reason for Habbo to think removing it is a good idea, the place won't be as pleasent for new people. All sucessful games online are censored, so they won't gain much out of it. Even if you have the bobba filter on, it will still look stupid, imagine.. "bobba you, bobba bobba bobba" "where the bobba are you" "whats the bobba". Its just going to look silly IMO .

World of Warcraft also has a optional filter, there is no problem if the filter is default on as soon as you start Habbo.

[GommeInc]

Has no one figured out that the filter cannot be turned off by individuals of the forum? It is best to keep those younger than 12 or 13 fresh until they reach manic swearing age, than to let them go crazy before hand. If Habbo got rid of it completely, then Habbox will, but because Habbox doesn't have the same system as Habbo, they cannot "/

[Jazza]

Habbox is far less mature than Habbo therefore ---MAD--- and his reign of ******ry will not turn it off.

[Mentor]

Actualy it is very possible to ad an option filter, with a few (yet significant) modifications to certain forum functions.
VB like most forums, runs its word filter when a post is saved to the database. Thus, information is simply placed on the forum as it appears within the db itself.
To have an optional filter, the word filter would have to be run on the loaded content itself, every time a page is loaded (if its turned on), the problem with this is it will put alot more strain on the server, especally on a big and busy site like habbox.
Although.. a method ive used on my own site to counter this, is simply to have an "uncensored" forum, which only people who disable the word filter, are able to view (custom profile field, little script to read and make checks, easy as pie)

Personaly i dont really see much practicality in banning swareing, i mean whats the purpous, stop people from hering the words they use on a dayly basis anyway?

[Jazza]

Actualy it is very possible to ad an option filter, with a few (yet significant) modifications to certain forum functions.
VB like most forums, runs its word filter when a post is saved to the database. Thus, information is simply placed on the forum as it appears within the db itself.
To have an optional filter, the word filter would have to be run on the loaded content itself, every time a page is loaded (if its turned on), the problem with this is it will put alot more strain on the server, especally on a big and busy site like habbox.
Although.. a method ive used on my own site to counter this, is simply to have an "uncensored" forum, which only people who disable the word filter, are able to view (custom profile field, little script to read and make checks, easy as pie)

Personaly i dont really see much practicality in banning swareing, i mean whats the purpous, stop people from hering the words they use on a dayly basis anyway?

+Rep lol. Mad would never do it though.

[Mr.Sam]

In correct.
New users would have the filter on and wouldn't see the swear words, it's completely optional.
Online games (The Good ones not some browser game *cough* runescape) have options to turn the filter level down or off completely.
Who cares if the posts look stupid? its not like your going to post 2 or more swear words in a row to be honest.

I see no reason for Habbo to think removing it is a good idea, the place won't be as pleasent for new people. All sucessful games online are censored, so they won't gain much out of it. Even if you have the bobba filter on, it will still look stupid, imagine.. "bobba you, bobba bobba bobba" "where the bobba are you" "whats the bobba". Its just going to look silly IMO .

[DiscoPat]

There are more disadvantages than the advantages tho, we all know that but yeah..

[Foobar]

I don't think this would be an excellent idea, because I bet you if I entered the spam forum just once, all the threads will be like

***** **** **** ****** ***** ****** **** ******* ya hurrrr?!/1

which would just start getting annoying..