Can someone explain this issue?
Hello,
When I went to answer a question on the 2014 iMac, and how to replace the glass I noticed something in the swear filter that's just ridiculous. It isn't a swear word, either. It's a short term for assembly I use on occasion.
When I went to answer said question, I entered @%^'y. What you see there is what I got. The censored word says a s s ' y. Yeah, I'm serious about that. A short term for part types is censored.
While I'm not mad nor shocked, I'm just curious why this is the case. it isn't a swear word, so it really doesn't make sense to me. It isn't a big issue, but I'm curious why.
My best educated guess on this is you're using "catch all" filters that don't judge very well. Like in this case, I didn't use a swear word but it was interprited as such because of what I believe is a wildcard swear filter.
What I mean by this is instead of putting every swear word you can think of in a filtering list, you just do something like @%^* and let it go from there. Because @%^ is in the first part of the word, it gets incorrectly filtered. I understand why you would use this system, but the one big downside is issues like this one. Filters like this really need to be accompanied with a whitelist, so it doesn't filter stuff with a swear word in it that really isn't one.
Is this a good question?