Lack of interest [Suggestion] Optional Swear Filter...

[PNE-Online]

A feature that we have felt would be beneficial to our community is an optional swear filter where users can select in their settings whether they would like profanities to be censored or not; instead of a universal filter.

This would nullify the temptation for users to bypass the filter when it is activated; or complain about the content of the forum when it is de-activated.

 

[anotheralias]

More important to me - do you mean xenForo will give me the ability to substitute one word for another? Because that is fantastic. I have really, really missed that feature, and I never understood why a Mickey Mouse operation like ezBoard could have it, but err...... other, more sophisticated (and not free) forum software couldn't manage it.

 

[Erik]

More important to me - do you mean xenForo will give me the ability to substitute one word for another? Because that is fantastic. I have really, really missed that feature, and I never understood why a Mickey Mouse operation like ezBoard could have it, but err...... other, more sophisticated (and not free) forum software couldn't manage it.

Yeah. You can already see it in action:

Try typing "Z enforo" without the space and you'll see XenForo. This is how a swear filter should work, as it adds lots of flexibility.

 

[anotheralias]

XenForo ... oh and you can see what the word was changed from when you edit. (Very hand for me because I would be using this for games.) Very very cool! I am pathetically excited about this feature!

 

[Moses]

It is very handy, when we were on smf it had a similar feature, and we added words like 'streaming' -> 'fox'. So when someone asks if you can see the rugby on streaming, people would say channel 502

 

[James]

This didn't really occur to me until the Forum Manager of a site I am an active member at was allowing certain users to bypass the filter as long as they weren't using the obvious profanity (using fook instead of ****) and claiming it held less baggage socially.

A user-based filter system would allow users to filter the words that they didn't really want to see, making the forum experience more pleasurable for that individual user.

 

[Michael Dance]

It would be nice for this to be added