[ciapug] Moderating message forums

[Tony Bibbs]

I can't help with a list of words but could probably give you snippets 
that I wrote that does this in Geeklog.

Just a bit of semantics though, when you say moderate to me that means 
having an administrator explicitly approve something before it's visible 
publicly.  Is that what you mean or are we really talking about content 
filtering?  Content filtering in Geeklog handles both profanity but 
other stuff too like allowable HTML, etc.

--Tony

Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> I'm working on a *very* simple message forum project. Basically you post
> a message, and then people can post comments etc. You know the drill.
> 
> Anyway, I'm mulling over the "moderating" issue. One thing I want to
> spend some time on is the issue of profanity.   What I'd like to do is
> substitute  a string of characters for certain words. I might even do
> something silly like substitute in <radio edit> for each profanity..
> 
> I'm looking for a list of profanities that I could import into a table.
> 
> Anyone know where to look? Anyone have any thoughts on writing the
> moderating code? Its important to keep it as simple as possible.
> 
> 
> :) Dave
>