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Regarding the Filtering of Profanity

Rachel Rugelach

Rachel Rugelach

Shalom, y'all.
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Subduction Zone said:
What sometimes drives me nuts is when a supposed profanity is inside a perfectly good word. See if you can guess what I am complaining about:

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I know what you mean. See if you can guess what this word is supposed to be: Bere****.

It's the common transliteration of the Hebrew word for the Book of Genesis (literally meaning "in the beginning") and commonly used by Jews.

Instead of attempting to write this word out here, I've now taken to writing out a phonetic approximation of the word, which the filter permits: Beresheet.

It's not that it's a big deal for me to consciously remember to change that word whenever I intend to use it here. I'm just saying that it was a surprise the first time I discovered that I couldn't type Bere**** here. I don't imagine that I'm the first person to have encountered this here, seeing as how these are Religious Forums.

To the Moderators (@JustGeorge @SalixIncendium @Quagmire @Debater Slayer @Brickjectivity and others): Please know I'm not complaining, although I wonder whether it's possible to exclude the word Bere**** from the profanity filter somehow? And, thank you for all your good work here.
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
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Premium Member
Rachel Rugelach said:
I know what you mean. See if you can guess what this word is supposed to be: Bere****.

It's the common transliteration of the Hebrew word for the Book of Genesis (literally meaning "in the beginning") and commonly used by Jews.

Instead of attempting to write this word out here, I've now taken to writing out a phonetic approximation of the word, which the filter permits: Beresheet.

It's not that it's a big deal for me to consciously remember to change that word whenever I intend to use it here. I'm just saying that it was a surprise the first time I discovered that I couldn't type Bere**** here. I don't imagine that I'm the first person to have encountered this here, seeing as how these are Religious Forums.

To the Moderators (@JustGeorge @SalixIncendium @Quagmire @Debater Slayer @Brickjectivity and others): Please know I'm not complaining, although I wonder whether it's possible to exclude the word Bere**** from the profanity filter somehow? And, thank you for all your good work here.
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I think we cannot fix it: based upon the following thread about zenforo's profanity filter.

xenforo.com

How does the swear filter work?

Curious how the swear filter works. Does it work like vBulletin does? badword {specificwordonly} Is there some sort of new setup that makes it awesome? Is there any way to add several words at once, or is it one-by-one? (e.g. is it a text box, or is it like IP.Board?) Just looking to find out...
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Actually this question has come up before.

A different workaround might be to get permission in site feedback to circumvent the filter for this word only. With permission you would type something like 'Beresheit' or 'Bereshzt' without risking a moderator edit.
 
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