filtering chat

Unless you're making a sesame street game, I would suggest forgetting about your friends idea. Not only would it be un-necessary to kick someone for saying "dick", referring to someones name, it would also result in random kicks for people trying to say other words. A word filter won't block bad words, it will only make users spell them slightly different.

For example, let's say you wanted to filter out all bad words:

Quote:

Jim: Hey ted. Ted: Hey jim. Jim: I heard you've gotten a new sound system. How's the b#$@ on it? Server: User Jim - Kicked for saying "ass"

If you still want to do this, just loop through everyone character received from all clients and if any amount of characters adds up to a swear word, filter, send the filtered message back to the clients, and punish the user who sent the message.

thank you cherryhouse :D, I think I'll skip the filtering thing.

I would suggest implementing filtering, but doing it client side. That way, individual users can turn filtering on or off.

Policing users who don't follow community standards is best done by the community.

great idea.
never thought of that.
thx.