[ciapug] Moderating message forums

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:51, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 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.
> 

I guess that maybe "moderate" isn't the best word. I'd like to come up
with a way to eliminate and/or filter the profanity and flag any posts
that could potentially create any issues.  I'd like to make the system
as automated as possible without me having to read and "approve" a ton
of posts. If  I could automate most of the grunt work (profanity, etc.)
I could spend my time on the tough issues.


I've been googling, and it looks like the profane list words is fairly
small. However "phrases" could be an issue. ..



> --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
> > 
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