Rude words

[Dom]

I am currently working on an online hiscore system, and need to censor rude words. i have the Broadcasting Standards list, but as the game is going to have French/German/Spanish/Japanese versions sharing the hiscores online, I would like to get hold of similar censor lists for these languages - if such a thing is possible.

Anyone got any good links/reccomendations for this? (googling turns up a large number of utterly unrelated & dodgy sites unsurprisingly!)

Thanks (& please don't post your rude words here!)

(PS: Feel free to PM me with rude words - within reason :P)

[EpicBoy]

I think you're going to find that this kind of policing is going to suck up vast quantities of your time. You may think you can automate it but people will simply start replacing "S" with "5" and "E" with "3" and so on ... you'll never get it all without manually going through the list several times a day.

[Dom]

i know, but we have to catch the common cases if we can.
'Reasonable efforts' etc.

[princec]

Sure it's worth it??? I've not had any trouble myself and it's easy enough to remove one if you get a complaint or spot something...

Cas :)

[Matthew]

In regards to censorship in word games, I was told it isn't a problem unless the game will spell words for you: hints, automatic word detection after a board collapse/shuffle, etc. If the player has to consciously spell something out for the game to recognize it, offensive words aren't an issue.

[Greg Squire]

I believe he's talking about people posting high scores online and using an offensive word as their name. This would apply to any kind of game, not just word games.

[Matthew]

I believe he's talking about people posting high scores online and using an offensive word as their name. This would apply to any kind of game, not just word games.

Why, right you are! I guess I should read a little more carefully before I respond :o

[ggambett]

Sure it's worth it??? I've not had any trouble myself and it's easy enough to remove one if you get a complaint or spot something...
Same here... the Betty's Beer Bar online high score table (http://www.mysterystudio.com/bbb_highscore.php) has over 120.000 posts and I didn't have to censor rude words.

[RedKnight]

Seems like a waste of time to censor all the rude words.

[Aggrav8d]

Then there's the whole problem of just what constitutes rude. Why, half the words I've used in this post are filthy, dirty words that need a spanking!

...sorry, I'm just back from seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[Pyabo]

I think you're going to find that this kind of policing is going to suck up vast quantities of your time. You may think you can automate it but people will simply start replacing "S" with "5" and "E" with "3" and so on ... you'll never get it all without manually going through the list several times a day.

This is SO true. I recommend not doing this at all unless it's really important (kid-friendly games come to mind). Once you start doing automatic letter translation to reject the examples above, then you start rejecting perfectly safe words when "7175" gets translated to "tits." This is a real example from a certain console-based multiplayer system I've worked on.

[Dom]

It is a kid-friendly game, and the hiscores are viewable in-game, so we need to censor some words.

There will always be some cases that slip through and these can be easily caught, but preventing the casual abuse is vital, and fairly easy (stripping out extraneous punctuation, replacing zeros with Os before checking etc.)

All I need is a list of swearwords in French, German & Spanish - surely there are some native speakers of these languages on this board...

[EpicBoy]

But if it's a kids game - aren't the kids going to be the ones entering their names (or their parents)? I would think it becomes less or an issue in that case rather than more of one.

[RedKnight]

Why not "Manually" remove them your self, if you want to censor something.