Ooh, the censor on here's a bit sensitive, isn't it?

@Wolfechu (1193)
United States
July 29, 2008 11:16am CST
Just typed in a response (quite politely) to someone's question, and was told it used objectionable language under Mylot's T&C. Had to spend 10 minutes figuring out exactly what I'd done to upset it, and then I realised. I'd mentioned an author who wrote an awful lot of science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and won numerous awards and critical acclaim for doing so, who'd come in the top ten of any list of scifi writers ever, along with people like Isaac Asimov, or Arthur C Clarke. His stories have become major selling movies, including things like Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report. He's influenced generations of writers since. He was also a bit bonkers towards the end, but that's by the by. If you haven't figured it out, his first name was Philip, Middle Initial K, and his surname rhymes with 'Wick'. And that was the objectionable part. Tch, honestly ;) Has anyone else had this problem here? Typed something perfectly innocent, and ran straight into the brick wall of the language filters?
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@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
29 Jul 08
Yes, it happened to me one time, and I couldn't believe it, I didn't think I wrote anything offensive. I started reading it and I found the word, but it had nothing to do with what the censor was thinking, so I had to change it a little. Can get annoying I guess, but I always try not to do that again.
@Wolfechu (1193)
• United States
29 Jul 08
Yeah, there's usually a synonym you can get away with, but this one struck me mostly because it's the guy's name. Not a lot you can do to avoid it, really ;)
• United States
29 Jul 08
Yeah, I had that problem once before. It was something that was really innocent, too, but I can't remember what it was. I found out, later, that in a certain part of the world, the combination of words that I wrote would be considered offensive. It was something totally innocent, but they didn't like that word for some reason.
@Wolfechu (1193)
• United States
29 Jul 08
I've had that elsewhere, but not here, so far. Words like 'assiduous' tend to upset some profanity filters.
@sunshinecup (7871)
29 Jul 08
Yes yes many times, it really stands as one big pain in the rear at times, especially when it comes to that name. It can really slow a person down, as it did in your case, trying to figure out away of getting around it and still make yer point.
30 Jul 08
Yes I once typed out something to do with my dog having puppies and used the correct term for a female dog only it wouldn't let me continue so I had to change it! lol x
• United States
29 Jul 08
I've had it happen once. I was talking about a female cancer and couldn't post the actual name of it. Talking crude is one thing, talking medical is another. There's really no way to filter out questionable language without an actual person going through every single post.