support. because Scratch does filter bad comments even if one letter was replaced by an other, so it also should be the same with emojis.

ScratchCat1038 wrote:

Yellowsheep43 wrote:

Maybe have the filter ignore emojis completely? I think that would solve this problem.
stupid 60 second rule

I disagree. Let's say “tera” was a bad word. Someone wanted to comment it, so they said “tea”. If the comment was posted, the filter would read “tea” which is a common word, so the user would get by saying “tera”, a bad word (in this scenario).

A better solution would be for the filter to replace the emoji with every letter and see what it spells with each letter. So with the above, the filter would see “teaa”, “teba”, and so on until it reached “tera”, the bad word (again, in this scenario), and the commenter would get muted.

yeah but that's gonna block innocent words. e.g if “cat” was a bad word, somebody might get muted for saying “bat”

-found same comment earlier.. removed this one

What would the fix to this be?

I think Scratch should add on to the filter bot, by checking if the emoji is directly after or in between a word. That way, if the condition applies, then Scratch wouldn't mute you, but instead, you would be unable to post the comment. This wouldn't be a n n o y i n g to a lot of people as ever since I've joined Scratch, I haven't seen a single person write something like Hell:o, and I'm assuming the same has happened to you, if not once or twice. Besides, it's not even a big deal if Scratch bans things like what I just stated.
Otherwise, I see no fix to this problem other than simply reporting it.
So Semi Support.

M1mikyu wrote:

By the way, I’m not really sure how much of a suggestion this is, it’s more pointing things out. I’m not quite sure how they’d solve this issue, though ignoring emojis when blocking things could work.

Btw I’m referring to scratch emojis, and since scratch emojis are spawned in from words the filter thinks you’re saying “I ha_waffle_te you”, because of the waffle the Scratch filter doesn’t realize you’re saying “hate”
One solution would be to make it so that Scratch emojis are added into comments in an emoji keyboard type way and then emojis are ignored in comments, thus “I ha_waffle_te you” could still be blocked. (I’m not sure if “I hate you” is blocked, but it’s the best example I could come up with)
I’ve seen people say the F word using this workaround.


Also, edited the OP

Yellowsheep43 wrote:

(#9)
Maybe have the filter ignore emojis completely? I think that would solve this problem.
stupid 60 second rule

well then it'll be seen as

sh(u)t, not whatever it was meaning*

(u) is there because without it… i can be alerted due to misreading.

No support. Many swear words have similar spelling to words that are common or used on a daily basis.

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

neon-liqhts wrote:

ScratchCat1038 wrote:

Yellowsheep43 wrote:

Maybe have the filter ignore emojis completely? I think that would solve this problem.
stupid 60 second rule

I disagree. Let's say “tera” was a bad word. Someone wanted to comment it, so they said “tea”. If the comment was posted, the filter would read “tea” which is a common word, so the user would get by saying “tera”, a bad word (in this scenario).

A better solution would be for the filter to replace the emoji with every letter and see what it spells with each letter. So with the above, the filter would see “teaa”, “teba”, and so on until it reached “tera”, the bad word (again, in this scenario), and the commenter would get muted.

yeah but that's gonna block innocent words. e.g if “cat” was a bad word, somebody might get muted for saying “bat”

Wow, I love Dan Kersenbrock-

Yeah no.

The best thing to do with these comments are to report them for bypassing the filter

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

neon-liqhts wrote:

ScratchCat1038 wrote:

Yellowsheep43 wrote:

Maybe have the filter ignore emojis completely? I think that would solve this problem.
stupid 60 second rule

I disagree. Let's say “tera” was a bad word. Someone wanted to comment it, so they said “tea”. If the comment was posted, the filter would read “tea” which is a common word, so the user would get by saying “tera”, a bad word (in this scenario).

A better solution would be for the filter to replace the emoji with every letter and see what it spells with each letter. So with the above, the filter would see “teaa”, “teba”, and so on until it reached “tera”, the bad word (again, in this scenario), and the commenter would get muted.

yeah but that's gonna block innocent words. e.g if “cat” was a bad word, somebody might get muted for saying “bat”

No, they wouldn't. They don't replace ANY letter with every letter, they only replace EMOJIs. Since “bat” isn't a bad word, there would be no reason to use an emoji to block one of the letters, and the user saying it wouldn't be muted.

M1mikyu wrote:

(#33)

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

They already whitelisted minor swear words?

how @bout @

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

M1mikyu wrote:

(#33)

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

They already whitelisted minor swear words?

What swear words did they whitelist?

xXWispTheElfXx wrote:

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

M1mikyu wrote:

(#33)

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

They already whitelisted minor swear words?

What swear words did they whitelist?

I know of “*”, “frick”, “lmao”, “hell” (well not really, it's sometimes blocked), although there are more
edit: tfw the forums blocks one of the words there but the main website doesn't

_Icicle-Cube_ wrote:

xXWispTheElfXx wrote:

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

M1mikyu wrote:

(#33)

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

They already whitelisted minor swear words?

What swear words did they whitelist?

I know of “*”, “frick”, “lmao”, “hell” (well not really, it's sometimes blocked), although there are more
edit: tfw the forums blocks one of the words there but the main website doesn't

1. “*” can be used to correct mistakes. Example:

User_name wrote:

“Hey there how ate you?”

User_name wrote:

are*

2. “Frick” isn't a swear word, it's a euphemism.
3. “LMAO” is pretty much another way to say LOL. Acronyms in text aren't meant to be read as what they really are. Imagine if someone were to say “laughing out loud” in real life. Also, people HAVE been warned for this before.
4. Hell isn't always a swear word, it's also used to refer to the place non-Christian people go when they die in the Christian religion.

xXWispTheElfXx wrote:

_Icicle-Cube_ wrote:

xXWispTheElfXx wrote:

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

M1mikyu wrote:

(#33)

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

They already whitelisted minor swear words?

What swear words did they whitelist?

I know of “*”, “frick”, “lmao”, “hell” (well not really, it's sometimes blocked), although there are more
edit: tfw the forums blocks one of the words there but the main website doesn't

1. “*” can be used to correct mistakes. Example:

User_name wrote:

“Hey there how ate you?”

User_name wrote:

are*

2. “Frick” isn't a swear word, it's a euphemism.
3. “LMAO” is pretty much another way to say LOL. Acronyms in text aren't meant to be read as what they really are. Imagine if someone were to say “laughing out loud” in real life. Also, people HAVE been warned for this before.
4. Hell isn't always a swear word, it's also used to refer to the place non-Christian people go when they die in the Christian religion.

Oh my god have you ever had anything censored on the forums?? I was not talking about “*” as in the correction wise. IT WAS THE FORUMS WAY OF CENSORING THINGS.

_Icicle-Cube_ wrote:

xXWispTheElfXx wrote:

_Icicle-Cube_ wrote:

xXWispTheElfXx wrote:

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

M1mikyu wrote:

(#33)

48kxzh0tzz_____ wrote:

-EmeraldThunder- wrote:

(#5)
We need to do something about this, it's really bad if there is any way for children to see swearing on the website.

Considering in modern times, kids as young as 5 already say cuss words, it's not as bad as most of you think. Of course, cuss words are “bad” but it's not the end of the world if a kid sees one. It's not good, but they already whitelisted some. Also some kids are so innocent, they might not even be able to notice the word you said.

Okay, but it’s against Scratch’s rules to swear

They already whitelisted minor swear words?

What swear words did they whitelist?

I know of “*”, “frick”, “lmao”, “hell” (well not really, it's sometimes blocked), although there are more
edit: tfw the forums blocks one of the words there but the main website doesn't

1. “*” can be used to correct mistakes. Example:

User_name wrote:

“Hey there how ate you?”

User_name wrote:

are*

2. “Frick” isn't a swear word, it's a euphemism.
3. “LMAO” is pretty much another way to say LOL. Acronyms in text aren't meant to be read as what they really are. Imagine if someone were to say “laughing out loud” in real life. Also, people HAVE been warned for this before.
4. Hell isn't always a swear word, it's also used to refer to the place non-Christian people go when they die in the Christian religion.

Oh my god have you ever had anything censored on the forums?? I was not talking about “*” as in the correction wise. IT WAS THE FORUMS WAY OF CENSORING THINGS.

oh haha
No, I haven't ever had anything censored on the forums
What were you trying to say? Can you put like, Ks in between the letters or smth?