Suggestion talk:20090919 Filter racial slurs

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Disallow racial slurs in character names, speech, graffiti

Timestamp: Zombieham Lincoln 01:26, 19 September 2009 (BST)

Type: interface

Scope: all text created by users

Description: Create a program to automatically delete names, speech, and graffiti that contain racial slurs. I'd rather not see characters with names like this, for example: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=823822

Discussion (Disallow racial slurs in character names, speech, graffiti)

Should be easy to implement. There's already a filter to cut out swearing on the radio, adding a similar filter to in-game speech and graffiti to remove hate-speach should be easily done, and by all means, already should have been done. 01:29, 19 September 2009 (BST)

Amen. Some retard started broadcasting Nazi propaganda on the district frequency. --Matthewbluewars ^{/New City\} 01:31, 19 September 2009 (BST)

I am Jack's total lack of surprise. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 01:46, 19 September 2009 (BST)

While I do agree with the intention, there's nothing easy about choosing which words to filter. For a little perspective on how many racial slurs there are, check Wikipedia's list. Swear words are much easier to deal with than racial slurs, and racial slurs, by their nature, often have a double meaning, making them both difficult to identify and easy to circumvent. --Aichon 18:00, 19 September 2009 (BST)

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