Censoring words

I want to make a censor type program that checks to see if the word is a "bad" word, and censor it with either asterisks or a phrase of some sort. I know how to check the words and such, but I have a very odd question! In order for this to work I will need to add these bad words to a "bad words file" and then the program will compare. For this bad word file, I will need to think of every bad word I can, correct?! It has to be able to change any badword, so, anyone have a bad word list or something I can reference?

go to a linux channel and spam that Windows is better... you will get your list.

Haha! Good idea...but I seriously need sometype of list since I can't think of that many words!

>For this bad word file, I will need to think of every bad word I can, correct?!
How do you know a word you think is bad, other people think is bad as well? How do you know that a word you think is fine, other people won't find terribly offensive? Might it be a better idea to let the users of your program define the list? Perhaps provide a nice interface for adding, removing, and searching for words in the dictionary of bad words?

Perhaps, if you're adventerous, if you wanted to sensor, for example, Ass, you could make something to sensor a$$ ...

Yeah, good idea. Better to let the end user add things, right? I will probably just list words that are pretty obviously rude, and let the user add more. Perhaps reading from a text or config file will do the trick nicely, and it will be easy to add/remove words, simply by editing and saving the file. Sounds like it would work!

EDIT- @twomers- Heh, that's a little more work! I would have to figure out another word to replace each existing bad word, and what if the user added another bad word that doesn't have an alternative censor?

Well, what I mean is that you could shuffle through the string of words for the regular letters, then replace all the S's in memory with $'s. That way you don't have to think about it, the program does it foryou. It would be harder than the basic, but I think it would be a good idea!

What to replace them with? I'd go for ***'s, or perhaps random letters, or places in the world, or kinds of roses. Anything!

If you want effective censoring consider what this ........ing board does, or just remove the words from the input string entirely, as if they were never typed.

I think Roses are better - there are millions

You really do like hiding things, don't you twomers...

Originally Posted by Decrypt

You really do like hiding things, don't you twomers...

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EDIT - It was the link, right?

Originally Posted by Sentral

Yeah, good idea. Better to let the end user add things, right? I will probably just list words that are pretty obviously rude, and let the user add more. Perhaps reading from a text or config file will do the trick nicely, and it will be easy to add/remove words, simply by editing and saving the file. Sounds like it would work!

Depends on the kind of control you want to give the user. If you want the user to decide himself what he wants to see or not, then it is fine. However, if one user choice may affect what other users see, then you may want to try a different approach.

You may have a main dictionary file with words you know are bad. This one is really not that hard to build. Unless you lived under a rock all your life Then you have a voting-system-type-of-thing. Users add words to a proposals file and each vote on that word increases its... acidic nature. You then decide how many votes are needed for the word to be placed on the main dictionary.

I could give you 25 of the top of my head.. and if u want another 15 in spanish and french and german

The American Heritage Dictionary does not exclude words just because they are considered vulgar -- you can look them up at http://www.bartleby.com/61/

Use google! I think the board may have a problem with posting, no matter how, a 1 MB list of swear words


EDIT - I think it would be easier, faster and more accurate if you just made your program change all 4 letter words into dots, stars etc