Bug: "OOOOOOOO" = "o"

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:51 am

Although they seem to enjoy the ban first ask questions later routine.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 12:40 pm

klinky wrote:Ok, guys the point is that more effort was put into hacking phpBB to conver the Os to a single "o".

It's not hard, and it's not a "hack". (from a code standpoint) phpBB has functionality built in for word censoring. Instead of censoring damn to ****, censor ooooooo (or whatever) to o.

www.something-awful.com
Altering the link doesn't prevent people doing a girl with pretty eyes or goatsex, or making a TinyURL™ to something-awful. >_>

The point isn't to prevent people from linking to Something Awful (the site), but to prevent direct-linking their pictures, to avoid getting the nasty image they put in place to prevent people from doing that.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:22 pm

fyrtenheimer wrote:no one's "flaming" gabe

Maybe you don't understand, seijin_dinger is the king of knowing what a flame is.

Argument = flame

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:21 am

DokiDoki>> I know there are filtering options in phpBB. I wasn't aware of any sort of logic/scripting allowed to that filtering. I'll look into it.

s0methingawful, tubgurl, goats3 are not filtered on a domain level, but @ a word level. String replace "something-awful.com" with something like pleasedonotlinktothissite.com or maybe a little URL linking people to the TOS of this website. Both seem more reasonable than just changing it w/o making an announcement about it.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:51 pm

Gabe, how could you forget this? It was implemented when I replied to Jeremy's "I'm leaving tell me you love me" post and stretched the page to absurd widths.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:01 pm

klinky wrote:s0methingawful, tubgurl, goats3 are not filtered on a domain level, but @ a word level. String replace "something-awful.com" with something like pleasedonotlinktothissite.com or maybe a little URL linking people to the TOS of this website.

That would be nice.

As for how the word censor tool works

gun can only change gun
*gun can change a word like trigun
gun* can change a word like gunslinger
*gun* can change a word like trigunissooocool!!

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:12 am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't it also work with '?gun', where the '?' is a single character? I know that's a common selection tool.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:36 am

Corran>> I know of wild cards, but we're talking about a string of undetermined length... I doubt there is an entry for all strings that = 8 - 10000000000000 Os. So >_> there has to be something in there checking the length of the string... Something, I hope it didn't waste senoir Phade's time.

Meh... brain doesn't feel like working on it >_>

Mikey, I forgot :O

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:50 am

it's 8 o's are changed to a single o.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:04 am

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:it's 8 o's are changed to a single o.

It's also 9 o's, 10 o's 11 o's 12 o's 13 o's 14 o's 15 o's .... etc..

There would have to be something telling it "eight O's or more = 'o'". Wildcards don't seem to fit the bill >_> <_<.