Adventures in Ridiculousness
By
Arctic Man,
Posted on: 2009-09-19 07:57 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Back when I played primarily on Victory, "fist" was censored for about a month, turning one of the server's then most prominent groups into the "<bleep!> of Justice." Many amusing and disgusting theories for why this word was censored were proposed at the time, but the official line was that it was a bug. Eventually, it became uncensored again.
"Jester" is apparently censored, too. This one's got me baffled.
"Bombarding the CoH/V fora with verbosity since January, 2006"
Djinniman, level 50 inv/fire tanker, on Victory
-and 40 others on various servers
A CoH Comic: Kid Eros in "One Light"
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Originally Posted by Bitt_Player
That gives me an idea. Write a perfectly normal arc, then go through and replace every word the filter blocks, as well as some carefully-selected, non-blocked words, with random words pulled from a dictionary.
"What the cabbage is $name doing here!" "How in socks are you so powerful?!" "Oh versimilitude! My evil plan is obfuscated!" |
This is actually a pretty effective work-around. Years back I recall reading an interveiw with a comics guy talking about this; he just got more creative with it. I went this route in my third arc so that the line
"...as if you gave a rat's (hinder) about any of that junk."
became
"...as if you gave a rat's scab about any of that junk."
On the other hand, it can be fun typing in a grawlix on your own too.
The boss in the same arc says "Oh #&*%@!" when you defeat him - very comicbooky.
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Wish that were possible. If what you suggest actually happened, all of those words that were eventually added to the standard dictionary with pejorative definitions, would offend all those people looking for something to take offense to. Then the forums would be inflamed by them and their ilk and all the people trying to refute them (or belittle them).|
Originally Posted by Willowpaw
I have some helpful advice to anyone who is in charge of creating these filters, or to anyone who may one day be tasked with creating these filters.
Please totally ignore the existence of Urban Dictionary. If you use Urban Dictionary as a reference for what words might be deemed offensive, then chances are, the majority of the English language (and probably several other languages as well) will end up being censored. |
Broad brush is cheaper.
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Originally Posted by SlyGuyMcFly
.... Are there any words in American English that are not pejorative slang for black people?
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@Remianen / @Remianen Too
Sig by RPVisions
As discovered by others, you can't use the phrase "Nip it in the bud" in the AE. I'm not sure if the issue is talking about the milk-giving bump thingies or offensive 1940's era slang towards the Japanese.
You can just work around the phrase entirely but there's time when you just want to say "Nip it in the bud".
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In many cases, I find this works better than some watered-down version of a swear word. If it's in-character for your NPC to swear, then he should swear, even if he gets bleeped. And like you said, it's very comic-booky.
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Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
On the other hand, it can be fun typing in a grawlix on your own too. The boss in the same arc says "Oh #&*%@!" when you defeat him - very comicbooky. |
Eva Destruction AR/Fire/Munitions Blaster
Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
Arc ID#161629 Freaks, Geeks, and Men in Black
Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
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It is rather easy to write extremely suggestive text without triggering the filters at all. They do nothing.|
Originally Posted by Sorciere
Shrug.
It's not that they can do much about that. You stumble upon it, because you're using individual words in context where they are pretty harmless. Strung together, all these words could be used to write a steamy BDSM novel. The servers don't have the natural language parsing ability to tell the difference. |
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Originally Posted by Bitt_Player
What bugs me about this is, as far as I know, Satan is not censored. So people can discuss the father of evil, but not the creator of all things.
We really need a new filter. |
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
It's old-timey pejorative slang for a black person.
No, honestly. See also "coon". |
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Originally Posted by Oliin
Most of the filtered issues are easy enough to work around honestly. The problem with a lot of these problems is that the filtered word often conveys a stronger of sense the matter than most of the work-arounds. For instance, "Thank god," always sounds more grateful or emphatic than, "Thank goodness," to me (unless the person being saved is a virginal damsel in distress, or a southern belle I suppose).
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or perhaps "(unless the person being saved is an non-destroyed hymen damsel in distress, or a southern belle I suppose)."
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Yes. Yes there are. Many words are already taken, as pejorative slang for white people, hispanic people, asian people, gay people, jewish people, Italian people....you get the idea.
Misappropriating the English language is an equal-opportunity thing. |
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Originally Posted by Thunderspark
Oh dear... I fear that Mr No Pants has just re-opened Pandora's Box...
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Djeannie's Costume Creator Overhaul Wishlist
Carnie Base
"Once the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote" -Kosh
Head: Desk
Repeat: Multiple times
Tried to use: Thank God in AE
Filter: As dated as the 'mobile' phone model
Seriously: Why?
Please: To fix error
Expression: Eyeroll
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Who let the Rikti start making their own missions?
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Head: Desk
Repeat: Multiple times Tried to use: Thank God in AE Filter: As dated as the 'mobile' phone model Seriously: Why? Please: To fix error Expression: Eyeroll |
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Well they got tired of losing all the time.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Who let the Rikti start making their own missions?
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I suppose you could go with the much less offensive "strangle it in the crib." |
Originally Posted by Jophiel
You can just work around the phrase entirely but there's time when you just want to say "Nip it in the bud".
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My characters at Virtueverse
Faces of the City
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"Put it in a sack and toss it in the river."
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Originally Posted by Megajoule
I suppose you could go with the much less offensive "strangle it in the crib."
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"Moses it."
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
"Put it in a sack and toss it in the river."
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--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville