RE: [GD-Consoles] username dictionaries

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

StarTopia used a very tiny vocabulary of the commonest English profanities.
The code to replace them was incredibly simple - it could only change a
single letter. What started as a cheap hack became a game, and we had fun
finding stuff that swaer words could be transformed into by changing only
one letter.

Thing is, it was so laughably simplistic and ineffective at spotting swear
words (I think even putting stuff in caps fooled it) that nobody bothered
h4x0ring round it, so the amount of actual swearing was quite low, even
though everyone was calling each other funking punts and ship-eating tankers
(the nautical theme just sort of happened).


A handy list of English profanities can be found here. Good luck filtering
even this incomplete list from your game: www.profanisaurus.com (and it's
worth a laugh every now and then)


Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hook [mailto:bri...@py...]
> Sent: 27 May 2003 16:18
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-Consoles] username dictionaries
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> 
> >It gets that much worse if you have to internationalize the thing;
> 
> Like PlanetSide's insistence on filtering out "Jesus", even though 
> it's a common first name in the Hispanic world.
> 
> Brian
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