Topic: Creating a tag for slurs/extreme harsh language

Clawdragons said:
I don't really understand much about how the blacklist code works or whatnot, but if the transcript search could search for parts of words, it would be easy enough to blacklist without having to use wildcards. Plurals and whatnot would contain the root word, so blacklisting the root word would naturally blacklist most variants.

Like I said, I'm not an expert on how the blacklist or search function thingamabobs work so I can't say for sure that the idea would work... but it seems like it'd be the sort of thing that should at least be looked at - if feasible, it would be quite useful.

Filters that search for parts of words end up being problematic in a big way because they are not smart enough to tell the difference between 'cunts' and 'Scunthorpe'. You could instead continuously add variations on words or continuously add exceptions, though that does run into issues with misspellings.

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