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#1 2009-07-21 06:16:32
Yet another auto-censor glitch
It truly is. When I tried to post a comment:
from Slumdog movie... sung in Hindi, language spoken in India. Yes, it is better than Pussycat Dolls
The automatic censorship didn't let it through. It's probably because of *****cat Dolls - but this strange.
Converting my Scratch projects to Python!
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#3 2009-07-21 07:32:46
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Yet another auto-censor glitch
It is just a simple filter...it's going to make mistakes. It looks for censured words, even inside other words, so it's going to have a certain number of false identifications. But it pretty much has to look inside words or people would get around it just by adding a couple of characters in front or in back of the censured word...for example aaaXXXXaaa where XXXX is the censured word.
It might be a fun thing to try and design a smarter filter using Scratch. Just don't post it to the website with a list of real censured words...use a fake set. 
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