Less Restrictive Word Censorship

[majoreyeswater]

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... )

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.

[majoreyeswater]

Just wondering if anyone might have an idea hw this could be done... thanks in advance...

[moonclamp]

You could use the replacement variable manager in your template/style options. Be careful though as this will also replace any HTML on your board ... ie do not replace words containing things like font, script, div etc.