- Jun 13, 2013
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Greets to the staff...just a comment - is the "bad word filter" set a little overzealously? I just responded to a post and used a word which triggered it, and said word is IMHO pretty mild - instead of "crud" I used a different C word which is still (at least in my opinion) pretty mild.
I guess in the end my main concern is that the filter doesn't actually TELL You what word it's taking issue with. Typically when there's a filtered word on a vB forum it's just replaced with asterisks (fair enough), but here there seems to be a plugin of some sort that deals with it differently, and often, leaves one guessing. I wouldn't have expected "c***" would have been a "bad word", and there's been other times it's got hung up on other unexpectedly tame words, leaving me guessing what I need to change in order to get my post to submit successfully.
Thoughts?
I'm all for keeping it PG here, I appreciate that, but the "guessing game" is weird when one is trying to clean up a response in order to make it submit successfully.
I guess in the end my main concern is that the filter doesn't actually TELL You what word it's taking issue with. Typically when there's a filtered word on a vB forum it's just replaced with asterisks (fair enough), but here there seems to be a plugin of some sort that deals with it differently, and often, leaves one guessing. I wouldn't have expected "c***" would have been a "bad word", and there's been other times it's got hung up on other unexpectedly tame words, leaving me guessing what I need to change in order to get my post to submit successfully.
Thoughts?
I'm all for keeping it PG here, I appreciate that, but the "guessing game" is weird when one is trying to clean up a response in order to make it submit successfully.
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