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tshad - 09 Jul 2007 17:53 GMT

Does anyone have or know where I can get a some code that will check a
TextBox for inappropriate language.

At the moment, we need to manually check submissions for language before
posting. This takes a lot of time and resources and in some cases a lot of
time before a submission is actually made live.

Thanks,

Tom

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Mark Rae [MVP] - 09 Jul 2007 18:39 GMT

> Does anyone have or know where I can get a some code that will check a
> TextBox for inappropriate language.
>
> At the moment, we need to manually check submissions for language before
> posting. This takes a lot of time and resources and in some cases a lot
> of time before a submission is actually made live.

How do you define "inappropriate" language...?

Do you mean "rude" words...? Do you have a list of these?

What about internationalisation? E.g. the Spanish and Italian word for
'with' is pretty rude in French... :-)

What about exceptions? E.g. the famous (and true) case in the early 90s when
CompuServe obscenity filter blocked all new registrations from people who
lived in Scunthorpe... :-)

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tshad - 10 Jul 2007 22:24 GMT

>> Does anyone have or know where I can get a some code that will check a
>> TextBox for inappropriate language.
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>
> Do you mean "rude" words...? Do you have a list of these?

Yes, but I don't have a list at the moment. We just want to control as best
we can that clients that post on our site are not posting bad language
(rude, insulting etc). We can do this easily manually but this also slows
down the time it can actually be posted as well as being time intensive. It
negates the whole point of using technology when we have to manually check
everything.

> What about internationalisation? E.g. the Spanish and Italian word for
> 'with' is pretty rude in French... :-)

You're right there can be exceptions. Spam filters do the best they can to
prevent this but things obviously get through. That doesn't mean you don't
do anything.

> What about exceptions? E.g. the famous (and true) case in the early 90s
> when CompuServe obscenity filter blocked all new registrations from people
> who lived in Scunthorpe... :-)

As I mentioned there are exceptions. I just want to do a cursory scan that
will cut down problems. If some get through we will simply cancel
membership - to the best of our ability.

Thanks,

Tom

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