Word filter seems broken
This kept happening to me today and the word it says I'm using isn't even there. The next line is just an image I was trying to post but couldn't because the filter was blaming me for nothing. Any possible fixes in mind?
http://i.imgur.com/9feIu.jpg
May 20, 2012
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[quote=UglierBetty]@BobR: That's really inconvenient.[/quote]
It's pretty hard to intelligently detect curse words, but maybe sending a [url=http://www.basilmarket.com/submit/ticket]Ticket[/url] asking Mr. B to remove the filter/lighten the filter on YouTube links would fix this
@BobR: That's really inconvenient.
[quote=UglierBetty]I can't even post links to good YouTube videos sometimes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcF[b]()[/b]H[b]()[/b]uUJE0mU
When you delete the () () s, you'll see that it's Bach's Prélude and Fugue in C minor... how is that against the rules?[/quote]
The filter doesn't know anything about the content on YouTube, it's the combination of letters in the part of the URL you obfuscated that it's complaining about.
It's the F and H and U and u it's blocking, I think, though it's not really clear sometimes.
I can't post links to the popular computer hardware site "Tom's Hardware" because of the combination of letters in the URL.
I'll just live with it then
[quote=BobR]I get that a lot, and with my patented "walls-o-text" in the tech section it increases the chances of it happening.
Like teresa said, it's most likely word fragments the filter sees combined to make the word it's complaining about.
The filter ignores spaces and most punctuation, brackets and parentheses, so a lot of times even using CTRL-F to search the text won't find it and you end up going over your post letter by letter.
I used to complain about it a lot (in tickets) and finally just learned to live with it and got "Lazurus" for Firefox that will recover what I typed in the message box in case it gets lost when the filter burps on something.[/quote]
I can't even post links to good YouTube videos sometimes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcF[b]()[/b]H[b]()[/b]uUJE0mU
When you delete the () () s, you'll see that it's Bach's Prélude and Fugue in C minor... how is that against the rules?
[quote=shaheem]This kept happening to me today and the word it says I'm using isn't even there. The next line is just an image I was trying to post but couldn't because the filter was blaming me for nothing. Any possible fixes in mind?[/quote]
I get that a lot, and with my patented "walls-o-text" in the tech section it increases the chances of it happening.
Like teresa said, it's most likely word fragments the filter sees combined to make the word it's complaining about.
The filter ignores spaces and most punctuation, brackets and parentheses, so a lot of times even using CTRL-F to search the text won't find it and you end up going over your post letter by letter.
I used to complain about it a lot (in tickets) and finally just learned to live with it and got "Lazurus" for Firefox that will recover what I typed in the message box in case it gets lost when the filter burps on something.
I know for a fact that the image didn't have anything related to the word in it because it's just the image I posted in that thread.
Maybe 'Sn' in the image link triggers it?
Whatever it is, it's a pretty annoying filter. I'm pretty sure every member on this site is familiar with curse words anyway
Well it's actually this thread here
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2418044/1/40432668Possible_to_repair_my_guitar.html#40432668
I managed to get past it by rearranging things and added a bit more but I got it again recently and couldn't figure out how to get past it
I didn't screenshot the post as I thought the one I provided would be enough