How to filter adult words

Question

Hi;

I am developing a web application, and do not want people to publish adult (pornographic) content.

So is there a service or a list of words which are porn related?

Or is there another way to filter adult content?

Thanks..

See also

How do you implement a good profanity filter?

Answer 1

Just be aware of the medireview problem when filtering ;-) It is quite easy to make a false positive when using simple text filtering algorithms. Maybe it's even worth considering Bayesian statistical classification approach used in spam filters.

Answer 2

Yes, here and here. Read: it cannot be done.

Answer 3

It can't be done, Disney failed.
If you restrict the words that can be used you'll just see things like this:

I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny

What you need is a good way for users to flag inappropriate content and a mechanism to deal with it swiftly. One way it to automatically hide/remove content if it's been flagged more than X times.

Answer 4

Thanks for answers.

I am neither a big company nor perfectionist. So I can ignore Scunthorpe problem , as this filter will not be on center of my functionality. It will just limit some multimedia. So what I need is just a list of words, which we close browser when wee see them near our family :)