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I don't think you should have a list, and maybe add a flagging option for bad names (or suggest the ST add one to 2.0). Or maybe just use the username as the name for the mayor.

Well, if it was still possible to create a hidden sprite in 2.0 like you could in 1.4, then I think the list would work. Other than that, you could just use their username or something like that.

Borrego6165 wrote:

I'm making a city simulation game, which will hopefully have the ability to share cities. However, I'm worried that Mayors may call themselves inappropriate names, with cities rhyming with Trapville and Duck Island.

If I included a list (let's say it's called the naughty list) which the game doesn't allow, that means that if a scratcher was to download the project (or view it online in Scratch 2) they could find the naughty list and see all of the rude words.

Is it better that I include a list, or would that be worse?

Don't add the bad words and don't include the list. Kids may see the words that may need to be beeped out.

powerpoint56 wrote:

Maybe you could encrypt the rude words to kids can't see them but they're still censored. Try looking it up on the Scratch website; some people have already done this.

Oh yeah, hashing would be great for this. I saw it on 2.0 before.

Hyperbola wrote:

powerpoint56 wrote:

Maybe you could encrypt the rude words to kids can't see them but they're still censored. Try looking it up on the Scratch website; some people have already done this.

Oh yeah, hashing would be great for this. I saw it on 2.0 before.

my restructuring of roijac's algorithm into a function might work

LeDerpy123 wrote:

Or, people could just be smart enough to understand that this is a website for all ages so they know not to use such language  .

Most people are, but some aren't.