I have recently been working on word censoring patterns to block some Finnish language expressions.
In the process, we discovered something I consider as a bug. I can reproduce it with censored words and censored patterns. Steps:
Go to /admin/site_settings/category/posting.
Scroll down and locate censored words and censored patterns.
Censor something if you already haven’t.
Open editor and write something nasty. You will see it censored like this: ■■■■■.
Type a closing bracket ). Every censored word which precedes the bracket will show!
The closing bracket appears for instance in the common smiley :) which is converted to the respective emoji of course. So if you end your post with :), you can actually type anything you want without any censorship!
If it is not a real bug, feel free to merge these topics.
Warning - dirty language follows. Are there any cencored words here?
Edit: Oops. At least not the most common curse words are cencored. I was trying to repro this issue here as this bug report is still valid in the 1.8 stable branch.
The censored words setting has been moved to a new UI “Watched Words” in 1.9. The censored patterns setting still exists, but the Watched Words lists can use * as a wildcards in the words. p*k for pork and punk.
I believe that short of moderation, no 100% censoring is currently possible.
A while back I experimented with trying different ways to get by the filter to post working censored links. With my admitted limited attempts I was very satisfied with the results - in terms of breaking censored links
In terms of words there are at least several ways to convey words or their meaning despite the censored word filtering. For example, I can type WHAT is this !#^*! and many would substitute the word themselves.
