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16th February 2008 | 09:24

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FullyFlapped

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From: Yorkshire

Strange ...

Curious.

If you try to use the word P R O O N in a post, it will be automagically replaced by asterisks. And yet the word Prune is unaltered.

Why's that then ?

16th February 2008 | 10:33

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chevvron

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From: Wildest Surrey

I tried typing 'Arsenal' on another forum and it came out as ****.

16th February 2008 | 10:55

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Blues&twos

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Don't try Scunthorpe, it'll get you banned...

16th February 2008 | 11:04

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Lasiorhinus

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From: Darwin

I think mentioning the airline M a c a i r gets censored, too, for some reason.

16th February 2008 | 11:11

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Whirlygig

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From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner

Because p r o o n is a spoof site?

Cheers

Whirls

16th February 2008 | 16:40

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PompeyPaul

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From: Guildford

Language censoring

I've attempted to write language censoring software lots of times, and it's such an imprecise sciene you end up with all sorts of strange outcomes.

I think people in QA love typing in rude words since you invariably get lots of bugs back on it.

Bug - Must Fix
User able to enter "Satan's flaps" into dialogue

Bug - Must Fix
"Dick Van Dyke" is censored in dialogue

etc etc