Client side word filter

[NoQ]

One guy has just suggested that for another game, but i somehow liked it.

Since abusive words in multiplayer chat and lobby names are known to be quite a problem, why don't we implement an optional (on by default, probably just a config file option) word filter on the game side? That is, the bad guy can say whatever he wants, but unless other people explicitly ask for this, his bad words are just filtered out (replaced with ***) by warzone2100 application other people run and thus never reach anybody.

[Rommel]

Unless you had a pretty good algorithm regex thingy it would be pretty u.se1ess.

[NoQ]

Shouldn't be the problem; obviously there already exist thousands of implementations of this, used by thousands of web services.

[Per]

I like the idea. Many games do this. We could even automatically pull down updated lists from somewhere.

[Perseus]

Yes, good idea, as well as in the lobby would be good to have this feature in game as well, so that people don't see those parts of messages coming from abusive people.

[bendib]

Very doable without regex. I think the standard library of C and C++ both provide utilities to make this near painless in string.h.
I was thinking strncmp() stepping through the string in a stringContains() function. There is a good chance I am forgetting something. I feel like I am forgetting a useful function...

[stiv]

You could do this with the Standard C library instead of regex, but it would be insane. The problem is more complicated than you realize.

[Rommel]

Shouldn't be the problem; obviously there already exist thousands of implementations of this, used by thousands of web services.

Yes with all being easily circumvented. I am sure there are more important things that development time could be spent on other than this. If someone is set on being an abusive prick this is not going to stop them - however somekind of proper identification that would allow banning users (as has been discussed) would go a long way toward alleviating the issue of abusive players. I have also found that a good repertoire of mum insults can be a good repellent against griefers

Just my 2 cents + there is a certain regret that would be involved in not being able to properly appreciate tomato_Cat's abusive rejoinders lol

[bendib]

You could do this with the Standard C library instead of regex, but it would be insane. The problem is more complicated than you realize.

Sir, you forget, I AM insane!