[Logician]

We've tried that. The only problem is with 1.5k new posts per day, you sometimes have to ignore the censor abuse and go for the bigger offences. I was looking for something that we could do to automate that

I could suggest such a hack idea then: Have a hack which will check the post before written into the DB (at the moment it is sent) and display a warning to the user if his post includes censor words and tell he is not permitted to use "similiar words" to bypass this ban and ignoring the rule will cause an instant ban. I believe that this will reduce use of such words dramatically and you can ban the rest of the crowd who insist not to comply more easily as they will few of them.

My intent was to not have users add words to the censor, but to exempt certain users from seeing censored posts- that is if 2 people view the thread, one can see the posts, as written, the other will see the posts after they have been censored. Certain words will always have to be censored, due to agreements with the host.

I'm not sure if that is in anyway different from a technical aspect, though it sounds like that might make the load slightly less? I'm still new at this sort of thin, so I could be very wrong.

VB checks censor words both at the moment post submitted AND at the moment it is displayed. So the words exist in the posts are already converted into *** and you can not revert them.

However if you intend to use the hack for the future posts, yes it maybe possible then.

My reservations regarding server load if censor list is large or passing them easily by typing similiar words still apply though..