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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.

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You are exactly right, I think 'swear' filters should be more accurate, it takes a little longer to code but it is honestly worth it when it comes to stupid mistakes like this.

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If they put the time in to make a useful "swear" filter instead of this wildcard system, I would not have to call them out on this issue.

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I remember something I said got blocked that was really funny, I think it was pin !$$&*. As in a little pin !$$&* of solder shows in the middle of the component.

Yup. that was it. The word I'm using rhymes with brick.

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Nick will be eternally grateful.