Censorship changes

[Gamer2020]

Does this apply to usernames? What is being done about people with offensive usernames?

 

[Olli]

Does this apply to usernames? What is being done about people with offensive usernames?

People with inappropriate usernames are dealt with by staff, granted that they're reported if spotted. It all depends on how severe it is though, so I doubt every username containing words in the swear filter will get dealt with.

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

Does this apply to usernames? What is being done about people with offensive usernames?

Just adding onto what Olli said, I don't believe usernames get censored by the new toggle feature. Similar to pictures with swears in it, this would inevitably be bypassing the new toggle feature and thus should be reported accordingly.

 

[Legobricks]

What's the point of the enabled and disabled options when both seem to disable censorship?

 

[antemortem]

What's the point of the enabled and disabled options when both seem to disable censorship?

What do you mean? Disabling the censor allows you to see what would be censored if you enable it.

 

[Legobricks]

What do you mean? Disabling the censor allows you to see what would be censored if you enable it.

There are four options: Enabled, Disabled, Asterisks, Hearts. The first two of these appear to have the same effect of disabling the censor; one, it seems, is redundant.

 

[Klippy]

There are four options: Enabled, Disabled, Asterisks, Hearts. The first two of these appear to have the same effect of disabling the censor; one, it seems, is redundant.

Enabled, Asterisks, and Hearts should all censor the swear words. Disabled is the only one that should turn off the censor.

Enabled produces Pokemon names for swears, such as psyduck, muk, etc.
Hearts produces hearts in place of swears.
Asterisks produces asterisks.
Disabled shows the words, whatever they may be.

If a setting is displaying incorrectly for you, i.e. seeing swears on posts despite having a censor enabled, let us know so we can alert the people who do the coding. :)

 

[Nihilego]

Just adding onto what Olli said, I don't believe usernames get censored by the new toggle feature. Similar to pictures with swears in it, this would inevitably be bypassing the new toggle feature and thus should be reported accordingly.

Usernames actually have an individual censor built into vBulletin which we still have running, and that should catch most of them itself and prevent their registration.

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

Usernames actually have an individual censor built into vBulletin which we still have running, and that should catch most of them itself and prevent their registration.

Awesome, thanks for letting me know! I honestly didn't knuw that; thanks for the clarification.

 

[Splash]

So choosing enable, asterisks and hearts will filter the swear words right?

 

[Tsutarja]

So choosing enable, asterisks and hearts will filter the swear words right?

Correct. When you choose Enable, you'll see various Pokémon names in place. Choosing asterisks will be like "***" and Hearts will be "♥♥♥".

 

[Nihilego]

just a heads-up guys, i played around a bit with settings to make them easier to understand but as a result some of your censor settings may have changed so maybe double-check in your usercp and try turning them on and off again before reporting bugs and whatnot

 

[Splash]

yeah I may be experiencing some bugs because I can still see people swearing while the filter is enabled while some are already censored

 

[Legendary Silke]

Hmm...

Shouldn't the Asterisks and Hearts option not change the length of the censored word? Having everything be three characters long when it's enabled looks weird.

 

[Gamer2020]

Just adding onto what Olli said, I don't believe usernames get censored by the new toggle feature. Similar to pictures with swears in it, this would inevitably be bypassing the new toggle feature and thus should be reported accordingly.

Shouldn't there be some kind of filter when you are registering and picking a username?

 

[Nihilego]

Shouldn't there be some kind of filter when you are registering and picking a username?

There is. I mentioned it a few posts back.

 

[Gamer2020]

There is. I mentioned it a few posts back.

Ok so some names just fall under the cracks. Understood.

 

[Nihilego]

Ok so some names just fall under the cracks. Understood.

Some do every now and then. If you've seen a name which you think is offensive then your best bet would be to PM me with it and I'll see if anything can be done / it can be added to the filter. You could report it too but in cases like this you've already got me here so it'd be a bit faster for getting the name potentially filtered and whatnot, haha.

 

[Nakala Pri]

Okay, I didn't turn off the swear word censor but swear words are getting through. For example, I can see it in Alex's signature and his thread in General Chat, I can see it in quotes and ugh, I'm getting really ticked off. I tried hearts but it didn't work and I was wondering if it had something to do with the skin I'm using?

You know the Care Bears? You guys are the Swear Bears. *slams door*

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

Okay, fixed a few glitches here and there. There was an issue where some signatures wouldn't be censored, deletion reasons weren't censored, and posts sporadically switched back and forth (don't ask.)

So that means I can put my profanely humourous signature back? I don't want to risk things and don't have time to turn the filter on... :\