Profanity Filter Oddities? Post them here!

[carp56]

creating(********)

[Scroggy]

Some of the thing that get stared out are crazy

[gobblemrtj]

Everyone needs to remember to post the previous word if it was in a sentence. It really makes a difference depending on how the filter caught it. Some words are blocked even if you enter them as a single word, but others depend on the word before it.

Example:

exactly works just fine most of the time, but if you put a word that ends with an "S" before it you get.
that'****actly when typing "that's exactly what I was going to say"

other words

heat****** for "heatstroke" or "heat stroke"
******xes for "pickaxes" if you forget the space between pick and axes.

[TheMaverick1968]

The difficulty is and always will be one thing. As users we don't wish to read profanity so certain words or combination of letters are starred out. Whilst we might type something innocent there might be a combination or implication of something that is not initially flagrant.

Where I do feel that Supercell are restricting chat traffic is by not using a context filter.

e.g. If Some one says "you are a F****************g, H*************ing, womble, fine that should be filtered. But not when you say Yes, actually.

[GladeMaid]

So, MiniGardener and I were chatting away, as you do, wandering from topic to topic. I mentioned my past as an anti-nuclear activist (I'm a Kiwi - it comes with the territory), and mentioned a particular U.S. Warship that was the centre of a protest march. A cynically philosophical Mini commented, "We bring sweetness and light wherever we go." This was rendered as "We bring ********* and light ...".

We double checked and, yes, the filter will not permit "sweetness". No sweetness in Hay Day it seems.

SC, GET A GRIP! Rein your filter in!

[Tomville]

I had an Indian neighbour called Hitu... It was a minefield.

[janellarsen]

Danish words : Prøve ( which means try in danish) or anything that has røv in it. Makes communication a challenge especially if you are trying to help other members of your neighbourhood.

[BaguettesAndBrie]

Ok. Besides the word "uterus" being filtered - really? come on - I tested very common, very rude French swear words in both English and French language settings....not one ​French swear word was filtered at any time.

Instead of periodically reading this thread, it seems like your time, dear SC, would be much better spent designing and coding a multi-language filter that wasn't just an enormous list of letter conditions slapped on to the chat regardless of language setting. Or, you know, you guys could buy one of the many pre-coded filters out there and integrate it, but I'd be very surprised if no one on your team was capable of coding a filter that isn't as clunky as one coded by a Coding 101 student, like the one currently in place...

[GladeMaid]

Why is this thread no longer a sticky? Are you hoping it will get lost in the crowd?

[Ffwife97]

Why is this thread no longer a sticky? Are you hoping it will get lost in the crowd?

I was wondering the same thing