Do you live in Rudeville?
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
November 17, 2015 6:12am CST
I am using the term “Rudeville” to refer to any town, country or other form of place name that falls foul of the bad word filter here. The filter system has been referred to a few times over preceding months and as most of us know by now many valid words can be rejected if a derogatory term is contained in that word. It can even result from a hidden word that spans two words.
This can be circumvented by simply rephrasing the sentence and using alternative words, but it is difficult to rephrase a place name. There must be dozens of such place names in England alone, so with the global nature of Mylot it is quite likely bthat someone lives in or visits such places.
I have seen people posting such places by adding an asterisk between the letters, but circumventing the filter in that way is strictly forbidden in the rules.
Does anyone here have that situation and if so how do you deal with it?
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3 responses
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
17 Nov 15
The Guidelines say: "Using misspellings to circumvent the profanity filter - This is not the place to show-off any colorful language."
The advice only refers to the use of 'colourful language'. Nobody will penalise you for having to use mis-spellings to write 'Scvnthorpe' or 'sn1gger'.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
17 Nov 15
Nope, but I am glad the filter is there, since sometimes I use my iPad to write comments. My fingernail frequently hits the i when I meant to hit the u. So shut becomes something I did not intend. Glad to be called out, so I can fix it. It lets me know it is time to trim my fingernails.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Nov 15
@ElizabethWallace Many auto check features built into word processors etcetera would accept such a word because it is known and frequently used. Such systems usually only check for unrecognised words.
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
17 Nov 15
@Asylum Ah, so true. And Otto (which is what my sister and I call the auto correct feature) does not catch this error, and often causes even worse profanity.
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
18 Nov 15
I am pretty sure that the Admin can make the different from a bad word and the name of an existing city. Now I am looking at the comment of Anja and I cannot believe that Char-donnay is filtered as bad word... I tried it seems it's a bad word. Now I wonder, what am I drinking?
