Comments on: Django: A Profanity Filter

By: proc

proc — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:53:03 +0000

@yeago
Yeah, you’re right — 2 ways to solve this — lowercase everything before you do the analysis or use regular expressions. In any case, it’s just meant as a quick filter to remove the most common bad words and is definitely not meant to be a one stop shop. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

By: proc

proc — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:49:34 +0000

@paul The syntax highlighter plugin I was using was terrible...sorry about that. thanks for pointing it out.

By: yeago

yeago — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:42:17 +0000

This doesn’t handle caps/lowercase variants. AKA fUck

By: paul

paul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:09:03 +0000

Amazed no one pointed out that you should have an indent below the for loop statement

By: the daniel

the daniel — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:35:52 +0000

I did it this way once:

BADWORDS = [(x.word, ''.join(['*' for y in x.word])) for x in BadWord.objects.all()]

def badword_filter(text):
for word in BADWORDS:
text = text.replace(word[0], word[1])
return text

By: fftb

fftb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:42:51 +0000

f—ing thursdays. just testing.

By: g_hunter1

g_hunter1 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:47:44 +0000

Yeah I kinda figured but thats a gallizon words to add to the list. But if you have to do it like that I guess you have to.

By: ss0

ss0 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:05:07 +0000

I believe he meant when people use a different word like fsck for fuck. However since this is what your regex is basically doing, I don’t really see the point of the question.

By: proc

proc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:40:33 +0000

What do you mean by masked words?

By: g_hunter1

g_hunter1 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:08:37 +0000

Nice stuff but does this also handle masked words?