Fix the forum filter

SomeoneOnThelnternet

it broke again, there are now slurs and swearing once again

dhuls

It's not broken, it's just plain bad.

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dertermenter

They are using a workaround to get around the filter that I am not sure I am allowed to mention. It is not hard though.

I do agree the forum filter needs a serious upgrade to the standards of the current filter, but I believe that there are limitations with DjangoBB with changing the forum filter so this may cause complications and more problems, but this is a massive issue with poor safeguarding on the site, especially when the Scratch Team really tries to have the best safeguarding as possible…

Thoughts on AFD on the forums

The2000 wrote:
All suggestions are unnecessary. If a suggestion is necessary then it's a bug report.

dertermenter wrote:
April Fools Day on the forums has been a repeated privilege, not an expectation

SomeoneOnThelnternet

dertermenter wrote:
They are using a workaround to get around the filter that I am not sure I am allowed to mention. It is not hard though.

I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows that workaround.

dertermenter

SomeoneOnThelnternet wrote:
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dertermenter wrote:
They are using a workaround to get around the filter that I am not sure I am allowed to mention. It is not hard though.
I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows that workaround.

True but I am not sure the Scratch Team will like it - got a lot of alerts recently so need to proceed every action with caution.

Thoughts on AFD on the forums

The2000 wrote:
All suggestions are unnecessary. If a suggestion is necessary then it's a bug report.

dertermenter wrote:
April Fools Day on the forums has been a repeated privilege, not an expectation

SomeoneOnThelnternet

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SomeoneOnThelnternet

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Za-Chary

dertermenter wrote:
True but I am not sure the Scratch Team will like it - got a lot of alerts recently so need to proceed every action with caution.

I can confirm that you're not allowed to discuss ways to bypass the filter.

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k0d3rrr

Let me use a quote from someone that pretty much sums up why the forum filter is bad:

Quote wrote:
“Scratch's discussion forums use an obsolescent and archaic filterbot which is different from the other one that most Scratch uses”

Which is why most racial slurs are blocked, but not other slurs. (And even the occasional slur which has been invented recently that hasn't been blocked yet.)

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