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- miniepicness
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phone number censor and links
Who wants spaces in their project links? i tried posting a ten-digit number but it got censored, so i retyped it over 9000 times and i did some weird stuff and i put a space between all numbers
- Raytracing
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86 posts
phone number censor and links
If your so worried just make about 50 blank projects in advance so the cant be censored 

- CellularData
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500+ posts
phone number censor and links
…how does that solve the issue If your so worried just make about 50 blank projects in advance so the cant be censored
- miniepicness
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
you'd need to make like 90000 for it to get past the censor. If your so worried just make about 50 blank projects in advance so the cant be censored
Maybe even 900000000 because some phone numbers are really long
Last edited by miniepicness (April 15, 2018 23:56:41)
- 1000652
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36 posts
phone number censor and links
If they're gonna keep that phone number censor in place, the least they should do is to find a way to skip project IDs that are 10 or 11 digits long and move on to 12 digits so that users can still share their projects in comments without the project ID getting censored.
when I receive [ newProjectId v]
if <<(lastProjectId) < [1000000000]> or <(lastProjectId) > [99999999999]>> then
change [lastProjectId v] by (1)
else
change [lastProjectId v] by (99000000001)
end
- CellularData
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500+ posts
phone number censor and links
The problem is that after that there are a TON of other blocked numbers. A lot of different countries have a lot of different ways of writing phone numbers, so it can be hard to find an amount of digits that isn't blocked If they're gonna keep that phone number censor in place, the least they should do is to find a way to skip project IDs that are 10 or 11 digits long and move on to 12 digits so that users can still share their projects in comments without the project ID getting censored.when I receive [ newProjectId v]
if <<(lastProjectId) < [1000000000]> or <(lastProjectId) > [99999999999]>> then
change [lastProjectId v] by (1)
else
change [lastProjectId v] by (99000000001)
end
- 1000652
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36 posts
phone number censor and links
I'm pretty sure that the phone number censor only censors 10-or-11-digit-long numbers, unless I'm missing something important.The problem is that after that there are a TON of other blocked numbers. A lot of different countries have a lot of different ways of writing phone numbers, so it can be hard to find an amount of digits that isn't blocked If they're gonna keep that phone number censor in place, the least they should do is to find a way to skip project IDs that are 10 or 11 digits long and move on to 12 digits so that users can still share their projects in comments without the project ID getting censored.when I receive [ newProjectId v]
if <<(lastProjectId) < [1000000000]> or <(lastProjectId) > [99999999999]>> then
change [lastProjectId v] by (1)
else
change [lastProjectId v] by (99000000001)
end
- PkmnQ
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
I would suggest binary if the for the limit of 500 characters didn't exist.
- ZZ9PluralZAlpha
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
so itll be scratch.mit.edu/griffpatch/1/I know I'm late to discussing this, but as far as I've seen, links when Scratch was in it's 1.4 days were in this format, but using the ID numbers in the URL that they use today.
- Buffek
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100+ posts
phone number censor and links
For example, in Poland, the numbers are all +48 000 000 000-snip-.The problem is that after that there are a TON of other blocked numbers. -snipA lot of different countries have a lot of different ways of writing phone numbers, so it can be hard to find an amount of digits that isn't blocked
With the 0s being the number and we can just write 000 000 000…
And I noticed that the censor detects 0000000000 but who has a number like THAT?
- MrFluffyPenguins
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
My idea: Always have 8 or 9 random numbers!
- CellularData
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500+ posts
phone number censor and links
Not sure what you mean here, but it won't work because we've already used all of the 8 digit URLs and will soon have used all of the 9 digit ones too. My idea: Always have 8 or 9 random numbers!
- LionHeart70
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
As far as I know, phone numbers can't start with a 0 (in the US, at least). And I noticed that the censor detects 0000000000 but who has a number like THAT?
I also don't think phone numbers can be all the same number, so..
What if someone wants to make a remix? If your so worried just make about 50 blank projects in advance so the cant be censored

- -ShadowOfTheFuture-
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
Wow, I never thought of this…
Yeah, this will probably end up becoming a serious problem in the near future.
Yeah, this will probably end up becoming a serious problem in the near future.
- MrFluffyPenguins
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
Oh my god. This could happen with studios, too!
And forum posts, but that doesn't seem like much of a problem.
And forum posts, but that doesn't seem like much of a problem.
- Flowermanvista
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
Well i had a super simple idea that would make a Base64 project ID system (the way YouTube does it) viable:
When the project ID is generated, pass it through the swear filter, and if it's bad, generate a different one.
When the project ID is generated, pass it through the swear filter, and if it's bad, generate a different one.
- PkmnQ
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
Let's try hexadecimal except it gets retried every time it filters.
Although if we get a ten digit hexadecimal string without letters, it still could be a problem so encode it again.
e.g.
155885897 -> 313535383835383937 or 94AA149 depending on what way.
Actually no, I have a better idea.
Base 26 with retries.
155885897 -> MCCFKK
It will only be applied if it senses that the project id will be greater than 10, so that there are no problems of previous projects having problems.
Although if we get a ten digit hexadecimal string without letters, it still could be a problem so encode it again.
e.g.
155885897 -> 313535383835383937 or 94AA149 depending on what way.
Actually no, I have a better idea.
Base 26 with retries.
155885897 -> MCCFKK
It will only be applied if it senses that the project id will be greater than 10, so that there are no problems of previous projects having problems.
Last edited by PkmnQ (June 19, 2018 11:32:05)
- miniepicness
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1000+ posts
phone number censor and links
Let's try hexadecimal except it gets retried every time it filters.what if we just convert it into talki
Although if we get a ten digit hexadecimal string without letters, it still could be a problem so encode it again.
e.g.
155885897 -> 313535383835383937 or 94AA149 depending on what way.
Actually no, I have a better idea.
Base 26 with retries.
155885897 -> MCCFKK
It will only be applied if it senses that the project id will be greater than 10, so that there are no problems of previous projects having problems.
um yeah thats a good idea except if it can spell out swears
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