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#143710 24-Apr-2014 11:30
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Got a PM from someone trying to post a reply and getting a "Can't post due to bad words". He couldn't find the bad word, so I asked to show me the image...

Instead of uploading the image to Geekzone (or anywhere), he was doing a copy/paste of the image into the editor, which in some browsers will change it to a base64 image... I copied the base64 source and... here it is, in the middle of the image:




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  #1030481 24-Apr-2014 11:32
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ROFLMAO! 



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  #1030504 24-Apr-2014 11:38
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Well fluck me! tongue-out




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  #1030520 24-Apr-2014 11:50
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Side note, does this mean that GZ will actually detect words in the middle of other words when blocking?  I know that words like "assume" seem to pass, but what it there's a legitimate word with "that sequence of letters" in it?  (I think that apart from the the town in Austria there aren't any words with the "f" word in them, but what about that particular type of mushroom starting with "s"?)



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  #1030528 24-Apr-2014 11:59
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Kyanar: Side note, does this mean that GZ will actually detect words in the middle of other words when blocking?  I know that words like "assume" seem to pass, but what it there's a legitimate word with "that sequence of letters" in it?  (I think that apart from the the town in Austria there aren't any words with the "f" word in them, but what about that particular type of mushroom starting with "s"?)


Why don't you just type those words and see what happen?

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  #1030544 24-Apr-2014 12:39
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Scuñthorpe!

Yep won't let me post with the correct spelling :)

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  #1030552 24-Apr-2014 12:50
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Wow, embedding image in text editor is something new :)

P.S. Ukrainian bad words passed through

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  #1030595 24-Apr-2014 14:14
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One SSD vendor used to think that 'bs' was a bad word which needed to be censored on their forums, even when used in conjunction with the Unix 'dd' command. I think they've changed the word filter on their forum now.




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  #1030630 24-Apr-2014 14:49
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I used to post on a messageboard where the acronyms OMG and WTF were eventually banned.




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  #1030658 24-Apr-2014 15:15
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I would ban LOL.




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  #1030662 24-Apr-2014 15:22
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freitasm: I would ban LOL.



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  #1030669 24-Apr-2014 15:32
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freitasm: I would ban LOL.



Should probably ban "trade me" and "scam" too :p

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  #1030761 24-Apr-2014 18:33
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Kyanar:
freitasm: I would ban LOL.



Should probably ban "trade me" and "scam" too :p


"trade me" and "scam" -- a tautology!




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  #1036535 4-May-2014 18:04
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And this week a different user trying to create a thread met the same "Bad Words in post": this time the word was "SHIT".

Seriously, with all the possible combinations in the universe, two different people in two weeks got to upload images with bad words in them. Imagine how many have normal words?

It almost seems to prove the Infinite Monkey Theorem.



PS. This is when doing a COPY/PASTE of an image directly into the editor when using Firefox. This browser will automatically convert the image to base64. This is not when uploading the image to our servers.




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  #1036537 4-May-2014 18:07
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Classic LOLz cuz

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  #1036557 4-May-2014 18:50
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This is all beyond my meagre tech skills!!





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