fastpitch41 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Sometimes when I'm talking on my guild message boards the filter will block me for no reason at all. It is so annoying because sometimes I need to reply that moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Angel Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I can't even customize my UL, my pet's lookups, or even edit their pages because of the HTML filters which are overprotective. And by looking at your complains about the langage filters, I would say that TNT has gone too far with their filters. What's the point of playing Word Pyramid anymore, or chatting in your guilds if you can't say anything? And I saw people on Neopets saying flat-out swear words before (small ones which are barely even considered cussing), and yet our "safe" language gets blocked! Is this a glitch, or are TNT out of their minds? Unless, of course, the Meepits have brainwashed TNT... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephie23 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Ugh it just happened again, out of habit i type LMAO instead of lol, and it makes me retype my whole darnmessage! GRARRRRR :( filters can be a good thing, but REALLY? this is going overboard!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaque-plaque Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 It is really irritating. if you ask me, the filter should not even exist. Neopets should just hire enough mods to freeze people who break the rules. I'm sick of bannings because of being modded by a robot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyTurtle Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I have been filtered for the DUMBEST reasons! Once or twice I had to go in and out of the NM several times because I honestly had no idea what I'd said that was insulting. On the plus side, the experience taught me that the most innocent of words can be interpreted as profane if you have a filthy enough mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler. Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Sometimes its mistakes anyone with a brain could see- like I once forgot my apostrophe in "he'll" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyTurtle Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Sometimes its mistakes anyone with a brain could see- like I once forgot my apostrophe in "he'll" That is one that I've gotten caught on before. I think one time I got bleeped for the statement "The meepit scared the pants off me!" You'd think the bots could at least learn to look for context, LoL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Wow...just give me a day or two to rant about this. It is SO annoying! I don't know why, but TNT has got to fix this. Even though there is absolutely no profanity whatsoever, sometimes, I can't even post on the guild messages :/ Sometimes, if i split a message into two, it'll work, but not when I put it together! Why is this? I can't seem to understand ==' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyTurtle Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 The thing it, Linda, that so many words that are normal to use can be considered profane in certain contexts. I once tried to commiserate with a kid, saying that "I know, hon. 6th grade really sucks." I got bleeped because of the word "suck" Once I realized the "problem", I tried to substitute the word "bites" and that got bleeped too. I wound up going with "stinks". The other one that gets me is that the bot looks for the word "password" but does not look at the context. One person I was trying to help told me she thought her account may have been hacked. I tried to ask if she'd given anyone else her PW... and the %$#@!!! filter yelled at ME for asking another user for their password! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Morpher Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 So many times I start typing up an HTML or copy one and then the thing decides that I said a bad word because I used something and I don't know hwat it is so I delete it and start all over! That makes me mad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler. Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 ok, so last night i was NMing one of my freinds and I said the word "password" READ-THE-NEOMAIL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quit Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 The bad language/HTML filter annoys me every time I think about it. I can't even update my user lookups anymore because every time someone edits the coding to work around the filter, Neopets changes is again. I've completely given up for the moment. I don't post on the Neopets boards or in guilds so I've never had a problem with the bad language filter there, but I did on my lookup once. I never did figure out what was causing it, there wasn't anything that could be taken as bad language in any context, and it didn't say anything it didn't say before. So I just had to delete the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabala Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 The apostrophe problem is really the only big problem I've had with the filter. It's still annoying, but not too bad since I learned putting ' at the start somehow fixes it. Though before I found out, I had no idea how to fix the problem, so sometimes I'd just give up trying to post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katinka Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I always have to put an apostrophe at the beginning of my post, otherwise it'll go, "The phrase that has been blocked is ''"... But it doesn't censor words like heck and cancer, while those words are a bannable offence too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MockDoctor Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Man, the filter has been getting my goat too. It doesn't matter: coding, rping, working on my Neoadventure,... it always suspects me of being a foul-mouthed wench. I had one account frozen because I said things like "the baby kyrii sucked on its thumb" or " *gives Gaara a hug* " etc. Wow. Just wow. That darned filter has annoyed me to oblivion. I especially hate seeing real potty-mouths blowing their tops. They can easily get around the filter to spout out bad words. It seems to me the filter is word-blocking everyone but the cussing folks. I think things would be better if Neopets used an "word-replacement-filter": A bad word is automatically replaced with a synonymous OK word; like if you HELL, it'll be replaced with HECK. I've seen alot of forums using it, and not only it works well, it's even funny! Or, of course, simply rely on mods to punish those who go against the rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katinka Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I think they would put "heaven" instead of "hell" or something. I got banned for 16 hours when I said "what the heck". :\ But when one of my not so smart friends says "God", "Jesus", "Lord", etc, nothing happens! Isn't that using the name in vain, or anything, or don't they care because those entities are "good" or something? (don't blame me, I'm not religious :P) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 The new "position" filter was getting on my nerves ==' None of my layouts worked. Thank god for google and those smart people out there XD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lepi Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Honestly, the filter bugs me when it blocks the phrase "That sucks". It's just...it's such a mild word. You have to go out of your way to find a problem with the term "suck". Also the word "lurve". I've looked and looked and looked, and I can't find any sort of problem with the word. I may not have looked hard enough, but it seems pretty innocent to me. I also have a pretty big issue with not being allowed to say, even in PASSING, anything about a wedding or getting married. Not even "Fiance" is safe from scrutiny. I'm not talking about a 6 paragraph description of the ceremony here, just not being allowed to say "Darn, I'm going to miss Sloth Day this year because of a friends wedding" or "My fiance just made his first account and he already got a FFQ! No fair!" I know it's a family site...but...come on. I doubt very much that any child will be scarred for life by something as mild as the mention of a wedding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danse Macabre Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 I got banned for saying "Bomb" in a private message....back when I was 12. I was joking about something with a friend. Lucky that account wasn't terribly prosperous, or I would have been pretty angry. I didn't know about word filters back then, ya see o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane for Wax Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 I have gotten blocked many a time trying to post to my Guild. For nothing. A simple emote was what tripped the last alert. I swear... I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with a simple post reporting my dailies and leaving a couple of lupe treats behind me. At the very least they could tell you which portion of your message is 'bad'. I hate having to do eenie meenie miney moe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lepi Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 I've spent many frustrating minutes trying to figure out something wrong with a post. I get very annoyed when I can't say something like "The pen is BLUE!" or "You should wash it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monasnella Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Well every 5 of my posts will always get rejected for some reason, just says the phrase that was rejected was ". I mean seriously what does that mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comawhite Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 My messages are stopped everyday for nothing at all :grrr: So the filters are very annoying to me,especially when I write a very long neomail that gets stopped for no reason at all,over and over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent&Sullen Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Whoa, with all these horror stories, I'm glad I don't bother with coding or talking on the forums. The find and replace (f-bomb and others of that, uh, caliber should freely be blocked out completely, though) is the best option, in my opinion. I understand not being able to have mods er... mod everything, but bots are really unreliable, especially the ones that seem to think the phrase "...as bad as..." is subjecting our children to profanity. For now, I'll just use notepad or Word on the off chance I'm coding something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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