Tweak the language filter?

[Bobblehead]

Since the board upgrade the language filter has seemed much more agressive.

I'm guessing names like:

Bruce ****burn
Stephen Lea****

will be partially filtered out.

Any way of adjusting the filters to ensure there is non-alphabetic characters on both sides of the word before it is filtered?

[photon]

It's on a word by word basis rather than a whole filter basis, so we need to adjust it as we go along.

EDIT: Bruce Cockburn

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by photon

It's on a word by word basis rather than a whole filter basis, so we need to adjust it as we go along.

Is it a regular expression that you tweak?

[photon]

Not that complex, the forum software keeps a list of banned words that we can add to or remove from. There's two ways to enter the word, one way will *** out the word regardless of context, the other way will only star out the word if it appears on its own. I changed that one so that Cockburn is fine but **** isn't.

[Cube Inmate]

Assassin
Woody Wood******


...I was just curious

[SebC]

Why is the four letter version of "pee" (p***) censored? Seems kind of ridiculous to me. Censoring it actually makes it look like you're swearing when you're not.

****ed = drunk
****ed off = angry

etc.

Pretty PG, IMO.