Admins, when you hit publish on a commemt and it tells you that you've included a banned word, would it not be sensible to have the page highlight which word is banned?
I've spent the last 20 minutes combing through a large comment that I was attempting to post - it contained no swear words or anything, but one of the words was obviously banned. I tweaked over a dozen words to try and weed out anything that would be remotely offensive, but couldn't find the problem word.
It was intensely frustrating not being able to post my comment after going to the bother of writing out four or five paragraphs and then sifting through them trying to find a word that may have been offensive in some other context. This happened to me before as well, and it shouldn't be too difficult to fix, just highlight the word that is causing the problem and I won't feel like putting my head in the oven
Banned words
posted on 30/12/12
Cheers admin
posted on 30/12/12
I find when you put a * next to words, it bans it too. Strange.
posted on 30/12/12
Yeah I think it was definitely the "*HILARIOUS.*" in your comment.
starts are often used to mask swear words so s star and f star trigger it.
posted on 30/12/12
e.g. you are talking total s star you complete f star would be the kinda thing we would often see.
posted on 30/12/12
Cheers
posted on 30/12/12
The hideous Paul Merson-ism "He'(s) hit the beans on toast jeff" triggers it
Like knotty i spent what seemed like an age trying to work out what was triggering it. Highlighting the banned part is an excellent idea.
As your here admin, what about click-able links in threads? This would be a an excellent addition to the site imo.
posted on 30/12/12
We might do this but because it is an exit point of the site might send people via ad portal first.
posted on 30/12/12
Great article, I have also been caught out by this. Would be great to have the words underlined, but I'd even settle for the matched word(s) returned in the "ErrorBox" div under the warning message.
For links, have them open in a new tab...
posted on 21/1/13
comment by 3mustgetbeers (U10120)
posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Great article, I have also been caught out by this. Would be great to have the words underlined, but I'd even settle for the matched word(s) returned in the "ErrorBox" div under the warning message.
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The match words will now appear in the error box.
posted on 21/1/13
Go on Admin, ya good thing ya!