Hi -
My proper last name contains the letters s followed by o followed by b in the middle. Unfortunately, I can't get past the censorship code which insists on replacing 3 letters in my last name with ***. I wanted to post a link to a video but was prevented because the web site code malfunctioned and always corrupted the URL.
Can this be fixed please? Having my proper name censored is actually quite offensive. Thanks in advance.
Bob Sobol
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Bob:
I trust Rich will see this and get it squared away. Please don't be offended; this digital world may be great, but it sure doesn't have a brain capable of reasoning.
Allan -
Thank you. I look forward to being able to fully participate on the forums.
Bob,
I understand you feeling offended. I'd probably feel similarly if it were my name. This site uses asterisks to block out parts of words it deems offensive. I was on a site for a while that would actually substitute one word for another. If you typed a certain 3 letter word, it would substitute the word "donkey" because, after all it was a "family site". Well, imagine the chuckles when we talked about cutting the grdonkey. My point is that we learned to laugh rather than be irritated. Although your situation is different.
I'm always curious as to "how things work" and have wondered about how the auto-censor works here. A lot of them operate by simple pattern substitution but have an "exception list". In the case above, it was a simple matter for the webmaster to add "Grass" and "grass" to the exception list. Do things work that way here? Is it user friendly or do you have to use regular expressions? Just wondering.
No reason to be offended. This is an entirely automated process. No one is doing anything personal here. I had the term "SOB" in the Censor List, for obvious reasons. I removed it. Should be fixed now.
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