1/31/12 @ 11:44am
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First, a little background. We do not like censorship but over the years there have been two main drivers to add words to the filter: rules from banks and an effort to block customers trying to spam the system.
Unfortunately, no system is perfect. Even with our logic improvements over the years certain words would trigger the filter even though contextually they were not bad whatsoever.
Yesterday we made a pass through the filtered words database and removed over 60% of the filtered words. We're going to revisit the newly reduced list and see if we can make further improvements. Feel free to post any specific cases you notice where you think the filter is being too aggressive and we'll do our best to address the issue.
Sincerely,
Brad Quote
2/2/12 @ 3:42am
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Also, I started out as wkyken, because I'm Ken and used to live in western Kentucky (w ky), but whenever someone typed my name, it came out W***n. What am I missing about "kyke"? Thanks. Quote
it is a derogatory slur used to refer to people of the Jewish faith.
2/3/12 @ 12:41pm
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Fixed that one yesterday, thanks for the head's up.
Brad
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2/3/12 @ 12:42pm
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2/3/12 @ 7:44pm
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Made a few more adjustments. The word "young" can be used, but obviously the context must not imply anything inappropriate. There are certain qualifiers that are not allowed still.
Brad
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2/3/12 @ 8:06pm
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Made a few more adjustments. The word "young" can be used, but obviously the context must not imply anything inappropriate. There are certain qualifiers that are not allowed still.
Brad
Thank you
Some models have Young or Te - en in thier names .
It could not be used as thier name in Forum or to write in email .
t33n is still censored in 18 and 19 as spelled . Quote
2/3/12 @ 8:47pm
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Location: London, UK
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This is a relatively minor problem.
Don't want to feel I'm fl0gging a dead horse here.
First one is now OK.
Second one not allowed (without the usual "0" for "o" change)
I agree with Phil and LickaU's comments - rather more important to the topic. Quote
