Forum Filters

[Reverie]

Do you use filters on your forum?

Using a filter means you've submitted a word,term, etc when used will show up as something else. So perhaps I said "You're such an idiot!" and I had a filter on the word 'idiot' it would then turn into "You're such an unintelligent person!"

Do you use filters only on cuss words, or do you use it for websites/links as well? Have you seen a positive outcome from this?

 

[Teg]

Personally, I only use filters on words that are forbidden and outlined as such in my Words okay/not okay information area of my site. Generally, these are certain derogatory words, racial words used in racism, or extremely crude or otherwise obscene swear words. I think filters are a good idea on forums simply because users on the forum range from 13 to old. On my site, the new one I'm working on, we allow people ages 10 + to access our forum. So, yeah. I think they are important.

 

[Darthmaul]

Never used a language filter. I don't find any benefit in censoring my members language. One time I did use a filter to change to a heart emoji. But that's it 😛

 

[Devster]

Had a lot of issues with people spamming a specific sites referral link - so blocked them using filters

 

[Kino]

I don't use filters when I have run sites before. My reason behind that is that I have a moderator team to watch out for that kind of stuff. I rather give more responsibility to the moderators, rather than a filter I myself run. I'm a very inclusive person with my forum teams and I hate having too much power. I just think that filters add to a "power" hungry admin.

 

[Page]

nope, I use tags but that's all

 

[Forces of Steel]

No, that's censorship. I would never enforce that. People have every right to express their feelings.

The only way to stop rude people is to have them cut it out or ban them altogether. No time to babysit little kids over the Internet.

 

[Cierra]

Yes. For cursing, common misspellings (ex. "teh" to "the") and certain sites that have been banned mainly.

 

[John]

I don't use it. As Kino said above: I employ moderators instead. I allow swearing in most instances, but if it's over the top, my moderator team will take care of it. I really don't have an issue with occasional swearing, but if someone is using it at someone, or their post contains nothing but swear words; my moderators will take care of it.

 

[Thomasss]

I find the word filters a little useless, censoring people from saying things shouldn't be something you focus on. If a curse word is directed at someone, a word filter cannot tell that. You simply need to employ a moderator team and have a real human look at the posts and decide of the cursing should be monitored or allowed.