XF 1.2 Censoring and italics (maybe bold and underline too)

[PVO_Dave]

Hi,

We've fallen foul of Googles adsense policies (adult themes), in trying to sort that out, I've noticed that when you do a site search for us, with the f word (no idea who's reading this ) it shows up in threads when it's still spelt the same, but when the c is in italics for example.

Is there an easy way of sorting this out?

Thanks in advance.

Dave.

 

[Paul B]

I'm not sure I understand.

Do you mean people are bypassing the censor by using bb code on individual characters in words?

If so, there's no way of dealing what that other than via moderation.

 

[PVO_Dave]

Yes, sorry Brogan, not wanting to sully this fine forum with expletives I didn't want to post it, but a clean example:

I've censored Oranges to be replaced with Monkey

People have then posted Oranges and it's posted without replacing the word

 

[Paul B]

The only way to deal with that is via active moderation/warnings/etc.

 

[PVO_Dave]

OK - Was kind of hoping for a clever way of dealing with it, thanks anyway.

 

[PVO_Dave]

@Brogan - Can you think of any reason that doing a replace in MySQL would be an issue? Seems OK on the test site

Example:

update xf_post set message = replace(message,'f[I]l[/I]ip','funk');

 

[Paul B]

I can't see any issues with that - only that exact string will be replaced.

 

[PVO_Dave]

Thanks Brogan - On the test site, it did seem to replace words within a sentence, so in the above example fliped became funked

I'm trying to think of an exhaustive list now - loads to add, thanks for the reassurance.

 

[Paul B]

Take a backup of the database first would be my only recommendation.

Just in case...