profanity

"bad words" filter

Not very technical, but... I have to implement a bad words filter in a new site we are developing. So I need a "good" bad words list to feed my db with... any hint / direction? Looking around with google I found this one, and it's a start, but nothing more. Yes, I know that this kind of filters are easily escaped... but the client will ...

Profanity Filtering / Profanity Dictionaries / Scunthorpe Problem / Profanity Generation

Here's a clbuttic question. I collect code that attempts to do profanity filtering. I personally like profanity, and whenever possible try to talk everyone out of using profanity filters. The filters always run into the very embarrassing Scunthorpe Problem which tends to make things worse. Of course there are sites that legitemately need...

Regex - Match ( only ) words with mixed chars

Hi all! :) i'm writing my anti spam/badwors filter and i need if is possible, to match (detect) only words formed by mixed characters like: fr1&nd$ and not friends is this possible with regex!? best regards! ...

What’s the best profanity filter which supports Java integration?

What is the best profanity filter (free / open source or paid commercial) which supports Java integration? It needs to be able to take a string and return a clean string... Can be a web service and doesn't necessarily have to support Java... Happy programming... ...

Basic Profanity Filter in Objective C for iPhone

How have you like minded individuals tackled the basic challenge of filtering profanity, obviously one can't possibly tackle every scenario but it would be nice to have one at the most basic level as a first line of defense. In Obj-c I've got NSString *tokens = [text componentsSeparatedByString:@" "]; And then I loop through each to...

What's the best way to parse a string for "bad" words in C#?

I'm thinking of something like: foreach (var word in paragraph.split(' ')) { if (badWordArray.Contains(word) { // do something about it } } but I'm sure there's a better way. Thanks in advance! UPDATE I'm not looking to remove obscenities automatically... for my web app, I want to be notified if a word I deem "bad" is used. ...

What’s a good Python profanity filter library?

Like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1521646/best-profanity-filter, but for Python — and I’m looking for libraries I can run and control myself locally, as opposed to web services. (And whilst it’s always great to hear your fundamental objections of principle to profanity filtering, I’m not specifically looking for them here. I know ...

Spanish profanity black-list

I've been tasked with implementing a blacklist-based profanity filter for a Rails app. I know there are a ton of issues with blacklist-based filtering, but the decision was made above my head. Challenge: I'm looking for a good list of Spanish profanity to run into the filter. For English, we're building on a list which exhaustively li...