Is there a way to prevent some of the naming of games?  Some of the names and certain people seem to be inappropriate.  If it's not possible no worries, but if it can be prevented let me know.  Thanks.

Beastlymaster

Here is a stackoverflow discussion of options for programatic ways to filter cursing:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-implement-a-good-profanity-filter

I think that any auto-filtering system is likely to have either false-positives or false-negatives or both.  Current practice is to report by hand, and let Tom handle it, i.e.

http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/1481/Inappropriate_game_name

There is a preference on your settings page: This option censors out swear words from the site (useful when viewing WarGear.net from work).  I'm really unsure how well it works, my thinking is that it doesn't work all that great although I don't leave mine On and have just flipped it a time or two to see if it works.

I have the censor preference turned on. It works well. Obviously, it's not going to censor swear words that are misspelled but that's pretty much the only time that words filter through.

CK66 wrote:

I have the censor preference turned on. It works well. Obviously, it's not going to censor swear words that are misspelled but that's pretty much the only time that words filter through.

Awesome!  Great to know, thanks for the info!

I did start work on a profanity filter for games but after a fair amount of reading (googling 'clbuttic') came to the conclusion that if someone wants to bypass a filter then there's so many ways to do it you can never completely prevent it using code alone. 

So the approach is to manually rename any games identified and warn the player who created them. If it happens more than a couple of times then a ban will be the result.

tom wrote:

I did start work on a profanity filter for games but after a fair amount of reading (googling 'clbuttic') came to the conclusion that if someone wants to bypass a filter then there's so many ways to do it you can never completely prevent it using code alone. 

So the approach is to manually rename any games identified and warn the player who created them. If it happens more than a couple of times then a ban will be the result.

Similar to the way we deal with cheaters.  The community self-monitors ..and in this way sets the standards for decency etc..   If the admin is active and pays attention (on this site, it does), problems are dealt with in the most appropriate manner.  I'd say it's working great.

What about giving board designers the option to set a list of default names like on TOS.  That way you can still set whatever you want when creating a game but can also use a random default if you so choose.

That may help with people putting in random names when trying to create games.

Has this been brought up before?