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In your online forum case, what exactly do you do when toxic users wisen up and start working around your filter? Do you ban them or just continue letting them

• fpgaminer 6y ago
  I've seen the replacement filter on a few forums, and it's _surprisingly_ effective. People just ... didn't bother working around it. No idea why, it seems like they would, but I guess they just couldn't be arsed. Don't forget that the replacement filter is just for banned words. Toxic/abusive behavior would be covered by the usual manual moderation. Though I don't recall ever seeing someone banned for working around the filters on the rare instances that they did. EDIT: This is in stark contrast to normal filters which just remove or blank out words. Those were _always_ worked around. For whatever reason people feel affronted by those kinds of filters, but the silly replacement filters were "fun".
• reaperducer 6y ago
  In your online forum case, what exactly do you do when toxic users wisen up and start working around your filter? It didn't happen. The system worked fine for the 15ish years I was running it, with about 30,000 daily active users. The offenders just got bored and moved on.
• numpad0 6y ago
  Disrupt the forum regularly? Toxic users tends to prevail against newcomers.