profanity

I want to use base36 in a web application I am developing... but as the id is visible to users as a url, I want to filter out profanity. Has anyone solved this? Or is this even a real problem? Does it make sense just to skip numbers in my database sequence? x0n Well, rather than try to amass all the swear words possible, just filter out the vowels. That'll leave you plenty of permutations in the space. Admittedly, you've just cut down from base 36 to base 31, but base 31 numbers are valid base 36 numbers assuming the same symbol set (a-z0-9). IF that bothers you, replace the five vowels with

Are you aware of any open-source/free .NET profanity filter (ASP.NET MVC to be precise)? I searched google but I couldn't come up with any. I would like to avoid implementing it entirely on my own, if possible. It is so easy to make mistake or overlook something. What a ******* good question. (I would have added this as a comment, but I'm a ****) Update Ok, here is something that might be a bit more useful: http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2009/07/03/simple-net-profanity-filter.aspx The above describes a simple swear filter from a list of words using regular expressions. You could download

I am building a very basic profanity filter that I only want to apply on some fields on my application (fullName, userDescription) on the serverside . Does anyone have experience with a profanity filter in production? I only want it to: 'ass hello' <- match 'asster' <- NOT match Below is my current code but it returns true and false on in succession for some reason. var badWords = [ 'ass', 'whore', 'slut' ] , check = new Regexp(badWords.join('|'), 'gi'); function filterString(string) { return check.test(string); } filterString('ass'); // Returns true / false in succession. How can I fix this