Re: OT: Editing out "vulgar" words

John,

On other lists I've seen, there's a button one can to click that
sends the objectionable message just read to the moderator for review.
If the moderator agrees that the message content is objectionable, then
the moderator can remove/edit the message, and more importantly, remove
the poster from the list.


Regards,


Ray Shahan

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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:52 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Editing out "vulgar" words

I've spent hours searching the web for a solutions, but so far I haven't

found one. I have found many papers on how you can't publish a list of
bad
words without getting in trouble for publishing bad words in the UK (not

helpful and of questionable accuracy) and how any list of bad words has
to
include at a minimum a compendium of bad words from the 22 most
frequently
spoken languages (but doesn't list the languages or the words). Thus,
I'm
asking the HP3000-L for input.

How did I get into this? Since I'm still unemployed, I'm doing a little

bit of photography and web site work in addition to job hunting.

In a web site project I'm working on, I need to "censor" posts that
users
make. Specifically, I need to remove "obscene, vulgar, offensive,
abusive,
hateful, harassing, profane, sexually oriented, and threatening" words,
replacing each occurrence with the very long phrase "{text deleted by
moderator}".

Obviously, my first question was "Do you have a list of the words you
want
removed? Of course the answer was "no." (LOL, what was I thinking,
asking
such a question!)

Which (of course) led to my second question "but you will provide the
list,
correct?" Of course the answer to that question was also "no."

My next question was "Do you have a list of words that people have
complained about?" Turned out they did, but that only served to point
out
another problem - many of the "words" are only offensive when used in a
certain context.

Example.
"Next, Bob asked *** about the 69 exception reports. ***
replied that all were related to a robotics problem - a
hydraulic line feeding a robotic arm blew, shutting down
production."
became:
"Next, Bob asked {text deleted by moderator} about the
{text deleted by moderator} exception reports. {text deleted
by moderator} replied that all were related to a robotics
problem - a hydraulic line feeding a robotic arm {text
deleted by moderator}, shutting down production."

Okay, so maybe it is easier to get a chuckle out of the "censored"
text. Still, the context problem remains.

Thus, I'm looking for:
-- a list of bad words
-- some context sensitive software (that runs on Linux) that:
-- ALWAYS deletes words on list 1
-- will ONLY delete words on list 2 if they are in an
offensive context.
-- any info on similar "projects" (and their solutions) you are
aware of.

Thanks in advance!

John
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