Announce a statement about how the filterbot detects bad words inside of messages to increase understanding of why users were muted

Gamer_Logan819

We get this question a lot:

“Why have I been muted for saying (sentence)?”
We have decided to give an answer for most of these types of mutes.

So, let’s say you post a comment like this:
Unicorns are my favorite animal!
Our filterbot, a robot that detects bad words in comments and mutes people, reads your comment like this:
Unicornsaremyfavoriteanimal!
The reason for this is because people who try to post things that are against the rules can easily use the space bar to get around our robot. So let’s pretend “printer” was a bad word. A person could post this:
printer
and out robot would detect it, and punish them for it. But let’s assume that person REALLY wanted to say the word “printer.” They could space out the word like this:
p r i n t e r
and if the filter bot didn’t remove the spaces when removing the comment, the person would get away with it until it was reported. But when the filterbot removes the spaces:
printer
You can see it becomes the full word again, so the filterbot can detect the bad word and punish the user accordingly.

Let’s go back to our old example:
Unicorns are my favorite animal!
We’re gonna make up a fake word that isn’t real, let’s do.. itean. That’s not a real word, but let’s pretend it is. And let’s pretend you’re not allowed to say it. Now take our old comment:
Unicorns are my favorite animal!
Our filterbot reads it like this:
Unicornsaremyfavoriteanimal!
And sees this:
Unicornsaremyfavoriteanimal!
and mutes the person who sent it.

So what I’m trying to say is, a comment that might not break the rules, could, by accident, have a bad word hidden inside of it. We’re not saying you intentionally typed a bad word into your comment — actually we’re saying the opposite! But it’s much safer to just mute the poster of the comment than to let it slip through, and risk someone getting hurt.

Last edited by Gamer_Logan819 (Dec. 20, 2023 19:31:52)

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Elijah999999

It would be nice to know a bit more about how the filterbot works. I didn't know that until I read this.

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Really, stop with the “support/no support” thing. I don't care if you give a reason. If you have a reason you don't need to add this to your post in the first place. Stop acting like your opinion makes a difference. It doesn't. Opinions were never the point. The point is whether or not it's a good suggestion. If you can give a good reason at why this is a good idea or point out a flaw, do it, but don't take sides.
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Gamer_Logan819

Elijah999999 wrote:
It would be nice to know a bit more about how the filterbot works. I didn't know that until I read this.

I don’t think that is how it works, but either method would give the same result on a spaced out swear, and the method listed is probably close enough, and it’s also easy for kids to understand.

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arogix342

sometimes i wonder why the st doesn't just treat a space as a character

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Zydrolic

arogix342 wrote:
(#4)
sometimes i wonder why the st doesn't just treat a space as a character

whilst having a lot more false positives aka misfires, it's a lot more affective than letting people cuss or swear by seperating words.

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roofogato

Support! This seems like a very healthy thing to tell everyone, and would stop those “Why was I muted?????” Topics.

also, “itean” is technically a real word. it's the pural of “feather” in gaelic!

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no objection. decent and somewhat constructive posts. truly one of the forumers of all time

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Bump and support because people would ask less questions

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Bump

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5_g

No because even giving people the slightest bit about why their comment was bad will make it easier to figure out bypasses for the filters

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Gamer_Logan819

5_g wrote:
No because even giving people the slightest bit about why their comment was bad will make it easier to figure out bypasses for the filters

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PyraEthan12

Massive support I was once banned for saying something I will not mention

Last edited by PyraEthan12 (Jan. 16, 2024 06:41:34)

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waitwhat2288

Wait, so would this be a sticky, post in the announcements forum, or something else? Would it be an ST member who would announce or could it be from literally anyone?

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Gamer_Logan819

waitwhat2288 wrote:
Wait, so would this be a sticky, post in the announcements forum, or something else? Would it be an ST member who would announce or could it be from literally anyone?

ST member would announce it
It will be in the announcements forum and maybe if the ST wanted to, pop up on scratch news section of the home screen

Last edited by Gamer_Logan819 (Jan. 16, 2024 14:41:33)

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Xzillox

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:
maybe if the ST wanted to, pop up on scratch news section of the home screen

I think that would be the best choice since not many people go on the forums voluntarily

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Gamer_Logan819

Xzillox wrote:
Gamer_Logan819 wrote:
maybe if the ST wanted to, pop up on scratch news section of the home screen
I think that would be the best choice since not many people go on the forums voluntarily

title it “PSA: ‘False’ Mutes”

Last edited by Gamer_Logan819 (Jan. 16, 2024 16:19:37)

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randomguy3513

Isn't this gonna help people bypass a bad word as they learn how it works and how to expliot it?

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randomguy3513 wrote:
(#17)
Isn't this gonna help people bypass a bad word as they learn how it works and how to expliot it?

Wouldn't - I have high doubt someone hasn't had the thought that the filterbot ignores all spaces, since that also causes misfires even if it's assisting in keeping non-misfires off.

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stop posting about kumquats, im tired of seeing it, my friend comments saying “oh hey your post was eaten by a kumquat” STOP a kumquat is freaking fruit just eat it utp ojtishglkmkjhgaoeimrlV,5KU9MOIL3K5GP,Ő AHTAHGTARET SOTP positing ABJTOUT IT (parody & sarcasm)

bad joke:

Most of this is now going to become a meme storage.

thank you ajskateboarder

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Za-Chary

Are you sure that's how it works? After all, “pass” is not filtered. Neither is “skyscraper”.

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Xzillox

Za-Chary wrote:
Are you sure that's how it works? After all, “pass” is not filtered. Neither is “skyscraper”.

the ST does have some whitelisted words to prevent too many false positives

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