majoreyeswater
02-04-2006, 07:54 AM
Am not trolling... originally posted this in the wrong froum (in VB2) because I didn't look properley. If someone could delete the other threrad, would appreciate it.
Anyway, here goes...
I hope someone can help on the censorship/word replacement, have looked through the older threads, but most seem to deal with complete word replacement using variable replacement (which I am a tad nervous about) or simply changing the censorship characters...
What I'd like is a censorship feature, that censors pre-defined words, but not so that you can't actually tell what they are.
For instance if someone typed:
Manchester
what I'd like to see is
M********r
This way, people can identify the intent in the post, but won't suffer from the trauma of seeing the words manchester (replace with any suitable offensive word - although Manchester is pretty bad where I come from... :rolleyes: )
I suppose I could simply put 'ancheste' without brackets into the admin censorship section, but my problem there if i block out bits of words in order to get selective censorship, there are occasions where the same combination of letters exist in a non-offensive word that i might want.
Eg.
If someone entered... (apologies for any offence, simply for research purposes...)
b a s t a r d - what I'd like to see is b*****d
Now, if I censored 'astar' in roder to acheive the above, then if someone entered dastardly (for example) then that would appear as d*****dley, which is not what I want.
What I'd like s somewhere that I can enter the word that is offensive and show what the replacement word is.
Again, any help appreciated.
Anyway, here goes...
I hope someone can help on the censorship/word replacement, have looked through the older threads, but most seem to deal with complete word replacement using variable replacement (which I am a tad nervous about) or simply changing the censorship characters...
What I'd like is a censorship feature, that censors pre-defined words, but not so that you can't actually tell what they are.
For instance if someone typed:
Manchester
what I'd like to see is
M********r
This way, people can identify the intent in the post, but won't suffer from the trauma of seeing the words manchester (replace with any suitable offensive word - although Manchester is pretty bad where I come from... :rolleyes: )
I suppose I could simply put 'ancheste' without brackets into the admin censorship section, but my problem there if i block out bits of words in order to get selective censorship, there are occasions where the same combination of letters exist in a non-offensive word that i might want.
Eg.
If someone entered... (apologies for any offence, simply for research purposes...)
b a s t a r d - what I'd like to see is b*****d
Now, if I censored 'astar' in roder to acheive the above, then if someone entered dastardly (for example) then that would appear as d*****dley, which is not what I want.
What I'd like s somewhere that I can enter the word that is offensive and show what the replacement word is.
Again, any help appreciated.