Fun with the swear filter

[Buster's Uncle]

It HAS been a 30 years for some of them...

[Mylochka]

You are currently painted green?
Way to go, Mylochka! 

Buncle does sleep occasionally...  Kroll! Kroll!  Kroll!

[Buster's Uncle]

KROLL!

[Mylochka]

There's "frell" and "dren" from Farscape, "frak" from Babylon 5...

Do the Smurfs count as Science Fiction?  If so, then you've smurfin' got all your smurf smurfed, ya smurf-smurfer!

[Geo]

Dren
Frell
Hezmata
Mivonks
Trel'ik
Yotz
eema

Funny that. We were just busy with the same universe. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Are those all for the same show, Geo, and what, roughly do they mean?  I really miss Farscape, but it's been too long.

I dunno; Smurfing talk may be a theme of its own...

[Geo]

Get your frelling eema over there, or else I have to assume you don't have any mivonks.

[Mylochka]

Does "vulcan" count?  As in, "Spock, are you out of your Vulcan mind?" 

[Buster's Uncle]

Oooh!  Good one.

[JarlWolf]

We should have the swear filter correlate with SMAC/X.

I am thinking for Sh*t, we replace it with:
Drone Riots

For As*h*le, we replace it with:
Organic Superlubricant

And for F*ck, we replace it with:
Population Boom

Just a thought, may be better ideas on it or better ideas for SMAC/X related replacements.

[Buster's Uncle]

It needs a lot more details, but I think you got something there ([poop] would be [recycling tanks], though).  If people like it, something like that could even be permanent. 

For As*h*le, we replace it with:
Organic Superlubricant

This gives away too much information about you, I think.

[Buster's Uncle]

You are currently painted green?
Way to go, Mylochka! 

You should see the Frida Kahlo reproduction she painted on the wall of the garage.

FridaMural 0001

The original:

[Buster's Uncle]

You know --- an option I haven't mentioned would be to cut the censor out of the loop entirely and use the smilie function.  They work the same way, but one substitutes characters (asterisks, or the bracketed translations I entered, and the like) and the other substitutes little pics.  The biggest difference is that the smilies always work.  I could upload a smilie with the f-word as the smilie code.  I could make a little Lalla Ward Romanna appear any time someone says Valka, too, for that matter. 

Lots of possibilities, though I'd have to make the swear list real short to keep it manageable, and just deal directly with the rare occurrences of other bad words and slurs...

[Valka]

You know --- an option I haven't mentioned would be to cut the censor out of the loop entirely and use the smilie function.  They work the same way, but one substitutes characters (asterisks, or the bracketed translations I entered, and the like) and the other substitutes little pics.  The biggest difference is that the smilies always work.  I could upload a smilie with the f-word as the smilie code.  I could make a little Lalla Ward Romanna appear any time someone says Valka, too, for that matter. 

Lots of possibilities, though I'd have to make the swear list real short to keep it manageable, and just deal directly with the rare occurrences of other bad words and slurs...

Just remember that it can have unintended consequences, like I mentioned with the writing competition I was running. It's not funny for someone to enter a serious story in a serious contest and have a dumb-looking smiley (or any smiley, for that matter) in the middle of a sentence. I raised a fuss about that because it would have hurt that contestant's chances - the competition and the voters would have used it as an excuse to unfairly criticize the story and downvote it.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's a good point.  And also on that side, I discovered today that we could give users the option of turning off the swear filter for their own display.

I would have to stop leaving the occasional term in my posts for the filter to catch if we did that, but I'm seriously considering doing it...