Author Topic: Why are the words "f lock" and "s heep" deleted? (Read 2685 times)

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks · « **on:** August 11, 2008, 01:27:58 PM »

Everybody,

Why are the words "fl ock" and shee p" automatically deleted? I assume that this is another nutty filter setting [Lashone Hara removed by TBOT], but can this be changed now?

Chaimfan

Zelhar · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:06:55 PM »

flock? sheep?

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:12:37 PM »

It used to read "deleted" whenever somebody would type f lock or sheep.

I can see sheep is now allowed, but why is flo ck still on the banned list?

Mishmaat · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:14:07 PM »

I quoted a post by "f jack" and his name was censored. It still is.

Test: f jack, fjack.

Test: f lock, flock

Rubystars · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:21:11 PM »

The word f lock is occasionally used as a substitute for a four letter word beginning with F. Maybe that was the reasoning? I don't know why sheep would be blocked though.

F lock seems to be filtered out but sheep works fine now. Maybe f lock was filtered out because of missionaries using the word?

Nic Brookes · « **Reply #5 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:24:44 PM »

But still, it's a common English word; a f lock of birds etc, it's not just sheep!

And why is fja ck filtered?

Test: deleted, deleted

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks · « **Reply #6 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:30:01 PM »

Fj ack used to be a member here. Why is his name filtered?

Shamgar · « **Reply #7 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:43:48 PM »

This is a Jewish and rightous gentile site. You don't want to see those 2 words in the same post...

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:46:17 PM »

What are wrong with sheep and f lock?

P J C · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2008, 03:05:40 PM »

Quote from: C.F. on August 11, 2008, 02:46:17 PM

What are wrong with sheep and f lock?

exactly, that is silly, why are those words censored. sheep flock

Dr. Dan · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2008, 03:50:34 PM »

deleted of Sea Gulls
F lock of Sea Gulls

hmmm...what a retard!

Rubystars · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2008, 03:52:17 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Dan on August 11, 2008, 03:50:34 PM

deleted of Sea Gulls
F lock of Sea Gulls

hmmm...what a retard!

And I ran, I ran so far away.... I just ran... God help me, I'm old.

Shamgar · « **Reply #12 on:** August 11, 2008, 04:00:45 PM »

Flock, a group of animals, a herd, especially of sheep or goats
Flock (birds), a group of birds, either in flight, or while feeding
Flock, a large number of people, or a crowd
Flock, a Christian congregation
Flock, a tuft of wool or cotton fiber, woolen or cotton refuse used for stuffing furniture and mattresses
Flock, finely powdered fibres used to produce a velvety surface texture such as on Flock wallpaper: see flocking (texture)
Flock (web browser), a free and open-source web browser based on Mozilla Firefox; also the company developing it
Flock (sculpture), a sculpture by Michael Christian
Flock system call, used for file locking
Flock (album), the third album by Irish band Bell X1
The Flock (band), a progressive rock band fronted by violinist Jerry Goodman
The Flock (film), a film starring Richard Gere
The Flock (novel), a novel by James Robert Smith
The Flock, also known as Raven's Nest, a large stable in World Championship Wrestling headed by Raven
Flock (video game), a video game by Capcom

I like this game. It's fun.

Shamgar · « **Reply #13 on:** August 11, 2008, 04:02:11 PM »

Can one of the administrators just publish the list of banned words so we don't have to go through the entire dictionary to find them all.

Thanks

Shlomo · « **Reply #14 on:** August 11, 2008, 04:33:26 PM »

I really can't publish that list for obvious reasons but I can tell you that f lock and f jack are NOT in the banned words list. I'm not sure why it is replacing those words. I'll have to look into it.

Shlomo · « **Reply #15 on:** August 11, 2008, 04:47:02 PM »

Alright... I fixed it. I figured out what it was. Banning words with asterisks in them cause this type of problem because asterisks are used as wildcards.

q_q_ · « **Reply #16 on:** August 11, 2008, 04:54:44 PM »

He was trying to ban the asterisk itself then within certain words!!!

Arabs actually avoid the asterisk completely, because it resembles a star of david !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_star

nessuno · « **Reply #17 on:** August 11, 2008, 05:04:52 PM »

I was the one who wrote about F Jack in my post.

I figured it was censored because of the F at the beginning and the K at the end.
Did it replace it when I separated it into two words?

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks · « **Reply #18 on:** August 11, 2008, 05:39:21 PM »

But we used to have a poster called Fjack!

nessuno · « **Reply #19 on:** August 11, 2008, 06:53:47 PM »

Quote from: C.F. on August 11, 2008, 05:39:21 PM

But we used to have a poster called Fjack!

I think he is still a member.
I was lamenting the fact that he doesn't post much these days.

Mishmaat · « **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2008, 09:44:01 PM »

Of course he's still a member. His latest post was on August 7th.

takebackourtemple · « **Reply #21 on:** August 11, 2008, 10:02:09 PM »

I remember writing about scuba gear and my scuba BCD(without the D) came out as a BCE.

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2008, 10:40:31 PM »

Quote from: takebackourtemple

Lashone Hara removed by TBOT.

Show me how what I did was lashon hara. Yacov is not a rabbi and is certainly not a righteous Jew.

takebackourtemple · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2008, 10:51:33 PM »

C.F., I have asked the individual who you are referring to, to stop posting bad things about us. He asked in return that we stop posting things about him and I think that is a fair request. While he has not removed some of the stuff he has already posted, he has not made any additional ones against us. I'm asking everyone to drop this fighting which should have never happened in the first place.

ape · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2008, 10:57:17 PM »

sheep flock