Swear Filter on Servers

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Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Shifty » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:27 pm

Someone recently asked a question in the TF2 forum about the swear filters, and it reminded me I've been meaning to ask why my chats are often blocked with no foul language in them. What exactly is going on here?
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Stevo » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:34 pm

Sometimes you can find bad words within innocent words or if you move spaces around. The filter isn't very smart.

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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Gizanked » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:46 pm

it does give back a lot of false positives, maybe read back over what you read to see if there are any hidden swears.. like stevo said, it isn't very smart.
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Pine » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:54 pm

An example might be if you typed "As soon as possible"
It would calculate he first 3 letters as a swear word and cause it to be blocked.
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by TheCarpe » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:58 pm

Yeah, it can filter some strange things. You can be typing something like "Push it" during a payload match and it will catch it for the perceived swear in there.
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Dog » Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:03 pm

Of course, people from a certain town called 'S c u n t h o r p e' in England are going to have a really hard time explaining where they're from.

It's not our plugin and doesn't work the way we want.
If you know enough regex, you could try and rewrite it!
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Darklightr » Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:07 pm

Regex? Never heard if it
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by TheCarpe » Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:13 pm

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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Darklightr » Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:15 pm

Can't go on that now. I'm using my godfather's laptop, and, apparently, his JavaScript is on O.o
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Masakari » Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:18 pm

I know I used to/still might get a warning for using the word "**********" on the servers.

But then again, that may just be Dog trying to get me to stop saying that word. :P
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Flobee » Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:02 pm

Probably the latter.
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Fox_Blaze » Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:29 pm

Most definatly.
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by Shifty » Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:00 am

I realize that it might find swears in innocent sentances, and maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, but I swear (no pun intended) that I'm typing completely clean sentances.

Perhaps I need to think more dirty and see the bad words better...
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by The Spanish Inquisition » Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:03 pm

Dog wrote:Of course, people from a certain town called 'S c u n t h o r p e' in England are going to have a really hard time explaining where they're from.

It's not our plugin and doesn't work the way we want.
If you know enough regex, you could try and rewrite it!
I would like to take a stab at fixing this ridiculous regex then. Got flagged last night for "Can't you just smash it back into metal."
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Re: Swear Filter on Servers

Post by TheCarpe » Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:18 pm

Dumb though it may be, it's better than nothing. It catches a lot more actual language than false positives, I'm certain.
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