is it possible to get the complete list of filtered words?

[brianmanahan]

we would like to see it

 

[Idontcare]

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[brianmanahan]

lol

well i thought maybe you could post them since you are an admin

or somehow creatively get around the filter

or pm them to me

 

[GrumpyMan]

Wow that 35th one is really bad, no wonder it's banned.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Can't you enclose them in (code) (/code) blocks?

 

[Idontcare]

lol

well i thought maybe you could post them since you are an admin

or somehow creatively get around the filter

or pm them to me

They are globally censored, including pm's.

And we have a rule regarding defeating the censor, I'm not brazen enough to attempt an end-around

And if it wasn't obvious, my list above was completely fabricated, Excel's RandBetween FTW. For dramatic effect only but I think it got the point across all the same (there is no way to post the list since the listings themselves would be censored)

TBH I don't even know where "the list" is kept or how to audit it, but I do know we won't ever publish it (even if we could) because the trolls and asshats would just use the list to come up with ever cleverer ways to defeat the censor filters (as they do now).

It is generally used to censor spammers, their websites and affiliates and so on. And a few verboten words that are particularly hateful and hurtful.

 

[Idontcare]

Can't you enclose them in (code) (/code) blocks?

Nope, they get filtered too.

 

[Doppel]

That list is very *******

 

[brianmanahan]

what i dont get it why it does not include swares like the f word, which is the worst word of all

 

[Idontcare]

what i dont get it why it does not include swares like the f word, which is the worst word of all

Profanity is allowed in the social forums, within reasonable limits, so we don't outright censor it.

 

[HAL9000]

what i dont get it why it does not include swares like the f word, which is the worst word of all

What about "wise and beautiful woman"?

 

[darkxshade]

can you tell if I'm typing ****** or actually typing ****** ?

 

[Lifted]

Isn't it about about time to take ******* off the list? Steve Jobs has been dead for a while now, and I honestly think that ******* has completely lost it's meaning with "the new ipad".

 

[Sinsear]

Hooray for censorship!

 

[Idontcare]

Hooray for censorship!

These forums would be a useless pile of advertisements for Viagra and free ipods otherwise.

Thanks to censorship my email inbox stays relatively cleaned up as well.

Thanks to censorship my phone is free of robocall advertisements and texts too.

Hooray for censorship indeed :thumbsup:

What sucks is that we need censorship in our lives to keep the trolls and asshats at bay because they don't respect what they don't value and they don't value these forums.

Just as they don't value the time people spend filtering through their spam emails or having to pay for their text spam or phone calls sent to their cell phone.

Censorship is a band-aid to deal with the symptoms of a much larger problem because the larger problem itself is unsolvable. How do you convince spammers to respect your wishes to not be spammed? You can't because a spammer just doesn't care, that's why they do what they do in the first place, its all about them and what they can get out of it and nothing more.

 

[CZroe]

They are globally censored, including pm's.

And we have a rule regarding defeating the censor, I'm not brazen enough to attempt an end-around

And if it wasn't obvious, my list above was completely fabricated, Excel's RandBetween FTW. For dramatic effect only but I think it got the point across all the same (there is no way to post the list since the listings themselves would be censored)

TBH I don't even know where "the list" is kept or how to audit it, but I do know we won't ever publish it (even if we could) because the trolls and asshats would just use the list to come up with ever cleverer ways to defeat the censor filters (as they do now).

It is generally used to censor spammers, their websites and affiliates and so on. And a few verboten words that are particularly hateful and hurtful.

Damn. I was going to organize them by character length "because we can't arrange them alphabetically." Had I done it it would have been immediately obvious that it was randomly generated due to the number of censored three-letter-words. Honestly, how many COULD there be?

Oh, and...

Seems like a silly request, given the obvious outcome of posting such a list when the words themselves are censored by definition, but here goes:

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...REPORTED!

I can't believe the 'manahan himself missed doing that!

 

[Idontcare]

Damn. I was going to organize them by character length "because we can't arrange them alphabetically." Had I done it it would have been immediately obvious that it was randomly generated due to the number of censored three-letter-words. Honestly, how many COULD there be?

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...REPORTED!

I can't believe the 'manahan himself missed doing that!

LOL

Yeah, it was a randbetween 3 and 10 characters. I thought about adding phrases (a space) but then figured I was over-doing it at that point

 

[JEDIYoda]

now thats one ****** ****** bad *** freakin **** ***** list!!

 

[schneiderguy]

Why is ****.info censored?

 

[HAL9000]

Why is ****.info censored?

If I had to guess, so that they don't get free advertising, given that all the trolls and banned members who want to attack this place reside there.

 

[Idontcare]

Why is ****.info censored?

Repeated efforts on behalf of their affiliates to direct ATF traffic offsite in ways that violate our "no self-promotion" expectations.

If individuals affiliated with MSNBC.com, for example, joined our forum and kept spamming the forum with links to their website, attempting to harness their access to the web traffic here for their own benefit then we'd spend time attempting to convince them to cease and desist (as we did with ****.info).

If MSNBC.com failed to respect our good-faith efforts to convince them to play by our rules then we'd ultimately be forced to censor MSNBC.com.

****.info is not the first site to force our hands and censor them for their relentless spam efforts, and they won't be the last either.

It is no different than any of the other spam links we are ultimately forced to censor.

If we didn't employ this tactic then these forums would be rendered absolutely useless to the general membership within a matter of months as spamming hordes descend in efforts to harvest the web traffic that exists on this forum.

Web traffic that exists thanks in part to our volunteer mods investing their own time and efforts to keep the forums cleaned up, inviting, and productive for members to spend time within. And likewise thanks in part to the members themselves who spend a portion of their time reporting spam posters and such to the mods.

It takes everyone working together to keep the forums cleaned up for everyone's benefit. The mods can't do it alone, and we'd certainly never succeed in doing it if we could not censor words and websites.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Repeated efforts on behalf of their affiliates to direct ATF traffic offsite in ways that violate our "no self-promotion" expectations.

If individuals affiliated with MSNBC.com, for example, joined our forum and kept spamming the forum with links to their website, attempting to harness their access to the web traffic here for their own benefit then we'd spend time attempting to convince them to cease and desist (as we did with ****.info).

If MSNBC.com failed to respect our good-faith efforts to convince them to play by our rules then we'd ultimately be forced to censor MSNBC.com.

****.info is not the first site to force our hands and censor them for their relentless spam efforts, and they won't be the last either.

It is no different than any of the other spam links we are ultimately forced to censor.

If we didn't employ this tactic then these forums would be rendered absolutely useless to the general membership within a matter of months as spamming hordes descend in efforts to harvest the web traffic that exists on this forum.

Web traffic that exists thanks in part to our volunteer mods investing their own time and efforts to keep the forums cleaned up, inviting, and productive for members to spend time within. And likewise thanks in part to the members themselves who spend a portion of their time reporting spam posters and such to the mods.

It takes everyone working together to keep the forums cleaned up for everyone's benefit. The mods can't do it alone, and we'd certainly never succeed in doing it if we could not censor words and websites.

I'd like some clarification, if possible. I've seen a certain member that has a hardware review site (not Anandtech) linked in his signature. Is that allowed?

 

[Idontcare]

I'd like some clarification, if possible. I've seen a certain member that has a hardware review site (not Anandtech) linked in his signature. Is that allowed?

Our sig policy is that members are allowed to embed one (1) offsite link in their sig provided it is discrete and not over the top advertisement (mod discretion applies), and there are limits within that. Ebay world links and so on are not allowed for example.

Folks most commonly use this opportunity to incorporate a link to their personal blog, employer blog, etc.

And yes, if done tastefully and discretely, we do allow for members to incorporate one link in their sig to a competing review site (Alienbabeltech is one example that comes to mind) provided, naturally, that the website in question is in good standing with the establishment here.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Our sig policy is that members are allowed to embed one (1) offsite link in their sig provided it is discrete and not over the top advertisement (mod discretion applies), and there are limits within that. Ebay world links and so on are not allowed for example.

Folks most commonly use this opportunity to incorporate a link to their personal blog, employer blog, etc.

And yes, if done tastefully and discretely, we do allow for members to incorporate one link in their sig to a competing review site (Alienbabeltech is one example that comes to mind) provided, naturally, that the website in question is in good standing with the establishment here.

Thanks. I'm just not sure I understand what you mean by "is in good standing with the establishment here." Are there guidelines in the forum rules?

 

[gorcorps]

I'd like some clarification, if possible. I've seen a certain member that has a hardware review site (not Anandtech) linked in his signature. Is that allowed?

It depends if the mods have beef with that hardware review site or not. There's people on here that run their own video game review sites for example, and post that site whenever they review a game. For some reason there's no issue with this, even though some less tenured member could do the same and the thread is locked and the site may or may not be censored after that. At times it leads me to believe that the rules are applied by rolls of the dice. :hmm:

Or something like this:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/222638/bailout

Regardless, that's how it rolls and you just have to go with it.