Spelling mistake in a censored link.

endorphin

extreme_one naughty words in the URL

What about legitimate sites' URLs that accidentally contain a naught word or phrase due to an unfortunate juxtaposition of words or letters, eg dicksonweb.com?

extreme_one

endorphin That kind of decision is way above my pay grade. 😉

The one I spotted had a word that would be unlikely to be included inadvertantly. 😅

endorphin

extreme_one The one I spotted had a word that would be unlikely to be included inadvertantly.

😀

But it would be tricky to sort out the innocent from the deliberately naughty (eg Lesbocages.com, Budget.co.ck).

i_am_sy

endorphin

Well the first site was disappointing. The second I'm not clicking on lol

extreme_one

I'm pretty sure the filters where updated when we moved to beta 10 or just after, what's removed is the same but the replacement text has changed. Someone must have thumbled a few keys. I'm sure it's a quick fix for Ian or Alex.

extreme_one

@endorphin Tricky is very often a good puzzle to try and solve. 😉

endorphin

extreme_one Tricky is very often a good puzzle to try and solve.

Yeah, glad it's not me that has to do solve it! 😃

endorphin

i_am_sy The second I'm not clicking on lol

Damn, they've changed their URL. It used to be for Budget car hire in the Cook Islands! I suppose they got tired of all the sniggering.

i_am_sy

endorphin

🤔

I think Pen Island is the classic website of choice to send someone to in the classroom, I still don't know what that site holds either lol

@extreme_one

Also I think posting a link here to anything inappropriate deserves a fairly heavy telling off or a ban, regardless of if there's a swearword in the link or not. I'd say trying to keep those links safe is probably more of a challenge and more important than the words in the links themselves.

extreme_one

i_am_sy Also I think posting a link here to anything inappropriate deserves a fairly heavy telling off or a ban, regardless of if there's a swearword in the link or not.

Well yeah of course, but we're constantly reminded that there could be minors on this site and their protection is of paramount importance.

We wouldn't want them stumbling onto some inappropriate content and then have them, or their parents, blame this place for leading them there.

i_am_sy

extreme_one

Yeah I completely agree, that why I think the contents of the webpage the link goes to comes first, the words in the link second.

Both of which are extremely tricky to filter effectively though, I don't know what's possible without also auto removing appropriate links too.

endorphin

i_am_sy Both of which are extremely tricky to filter effectively though,

Quite!

I don't know what's possible without also auto removing appropriate links too.

That's the crux of this and I don't think it's doable due to the examples I posted previously. We will probably have to rely on the good ole report post system.

i_am_sy

endorphin

Yeah I mean we found out probably within a week of fixing giff-gaff to giffgaff that it broke links itself, any filtering in hyperlinks can cause so many unpredictable possiblity.

ianmorland

extreme_one I noticed somebody had posted a URL which contained a naughty word and instead of the word being replaced by censored it was spelled censroed

Sorry I missed this one until now, I've found the offending filter rule and corrected the typo. Thanks for spotting and pointing it out 🙂

extreme_one Incidentally, it seems you can still direct people to websites with naughty words in the URL, in spite of the censoring.

Yep, I'm aware of this. Whilst it's not an easy fix, we do have a solution in the pipeline for this..