Has anyone here noticed this case of extreme censorship?
At yahoo.com wherever there’s an article where you can comment on,they would always censor words like “entitle”,“competition” or “competitor”,the words would be written as “en——le”.“comp——ion” etc. At first I din’t understand why then it hit me.The reason those words or any other similar are censored is because they have “tit” in their spellings.What are your thoughts? Isn’t that too extreme?
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That’s what happens when moderation is automated, and not performed by human beings. It’s pretty ridiculous, huh?
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Yahoo answers moderators are automated and that means that they have no reasoning what so ever.
Yes it’s ridiculous. I feel sorriest for the poor folk who live in Scunthorpe.
Yes, I’ve seen this very often in MMORPGs (that is, online games). The publishers seem to feel the need to stick a brutal word filter on whatever you say in chat since chatting is so instant, and people playing free online games can have quite the mouths.
It can be annoying when you have to retype the word, but sometimes it’s funny. You get to play the “let’s guess which swear is in this word” game, haha! The best was when this game had an event in it where you had to collect “Wish Tickets,” but you couldn’t say “Wi sh T icket” because it was a swear.
That is the point where I would punch the programmers in the face for not having a very obvious check for spaces in their detection subroutine.
I thought it was funny that on the World of Warcraft forums, you can’t use the words “grapes” because it has the word “rape” in it. So the censor turns “grape” into 3#%#! There is a newbie quest where you have to collect a sack full of grapes and if people mention it or ask about it, it’s posted as a sack full of #$#!$$—which actually makes it worse.
I hang my head in shame to admit but about 10 years ago, friends from one game and I decided to try out Habbo Hotel. (Awww shaddup about it!) Anyway.. I only stayed a few days but I remember that the censorship was wonky there too. The word “crack” was censored—probably because “crack” is a drug? Someone on the site told a joke and I said “Hahah, you crack me up!” and it turned crack into “bobba”. The guy thought I was saying something really really dirty to him.
It’s kind of funny how this kind of censorship actually makes perfectly normal sentences into things that looked really nasty.
@Illuminat3d Spare a thought for bird watchers who might be discussing small birds. There is one called a “tit”. How would they handle that case?
It’s laughable!
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