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New Cat's Eye
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Message 17 of 57 (628688)
08-12-2011 9:47 AM
Reply to: Message 12 by Percy
08-12-2011 7:03 AM


Re: Censored Words
I thought people were typing the asterisks in manually.
That you've designed the software to replace certain words from certain members is a great idea. And hilarious. I like it.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 21 of 57 (628699)
08-12-2011 10:36 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by Dr Adequate
08-12-2011 10:30 AM


Re: Censored Words
Did you type those asterisks in manually?
ABE:
I ask because they're showing up as asterisks in the "Peek" mode. I don't think the software should change what you have typed into the text box, but I don't have a problem with it dressing it up a bit as it goes live.
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 29 of 57 (628735)
08-12-2011 12:43 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by Admin
08-12-2011 12:28 PM


Re: Censored Words
This is a good point. Currently it changes the original text, but it should be an easy change to perform the filtering only in the rendered version, so I'll do that next time I'm in the code.
Great!
Come to think of it, a might only be a little more work to make the original words visible in Peek mode.
Of course, when you copy&paste from the peek mode, then the words won't be filtered anymore so it might circumvent the whole idea. But still, the stuff I type into the box should not be being changed into something else.
As long as I'm going to be mucking with that code I should ask if anyone cares whether the number of asterisks matches the number of letters in the original word. If I remember correctly, it's three asterisks no matter what the word length.
The number of asterisks should match the number of characters. Defaulting to three asterisks makes it really confusing.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 33 of 57 (628739)
08-12-2011 12:47 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by Dogmafood
08-12-2011 12:43 PM


Re: Censored Words
I always look at it from the persepective a person interested in buying this software from Percy. Having the feature makes the software better.
If somebody is posting a particular word over and over, that you don't want to have on your forum, then being able to hide with asterisks works great.
Plus, I like the idea of the admin being able to really show you... as in, "you really showed them!".
'You won't stop posting that word? Fine, now its just a bunch of asterisks!" I like it.
Its better than suspensions and bannings.
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 37 of 57 (628763)
08-12-2011 2:52 PM
Reply to: Message 36 by Rahvin
08-12-2011 2:45 PM


Re: Censored Words
...but I still disapprove, particularly when it comes to actually using such censorship here at EvC
Gotta test it somewhere...

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Message 42 of 57 (628843)
08-13-2011 11:59 AM
Reply to: Message 41 by Dr Adequate
08-13-2011 10:10 AM


Re: Censored Words Modification
See, if you didn't call people liars so much, then you'd be able to use those words.

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