Screwfix censoring product reviews

[Roger Mills]

You'll like this one!

I recently bought a corner arbour from SF, which I have now erected in the garden of my holiday flat.

I had an email from SF asking me to submit a review - which I duly tried to do.

However, every time I tried to submit it, it got rejected due to "inappropriate language". Admittedly my review was somewhat critical - particularly of the delivery arrangements - but it was polite and there was no bad language.

So I emailed it to them and asked, in effect "what the hell's wrong with this?".

I had a reply this morning. Apparently their automatic system has a list of words which it rejects - without considering the context in which they're used. My review contained the following:

"Now that it's painted (two coats prior to erection) and assembled, it looks quite good . ."

You can guess which word it didn't like. I fell about!

[Owain]

One wonders if that's a generic naughty word list they've bought, or if someone did once actually submit an inappropriate review with that word (and of what product)

Owain

[Neil Williams]

Ages ago, before phpBB etc were available, I wrote a fairly basic piece of message board software in Perl. Compiling the swear list was the most fun part I reckon :)

Neil

[Nightjar]

Some years ago, I had a customer get upset that I had been ignoring his emails. He was enquiring about an adult size biopsy needle and the spam filter was kicking it out because of the word adult.

Colin Bignell

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The ones I've come across tend to be based on US English.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Reminds me of Edinburgh trying to close down a brothel very many years ago. Their legal team spent some time trying to find something to get them for, but it seemed that they'd been really careful and none of the adult/sex prosecutions were likely to stick.

Then they found some illegal building work had been done to extend the premises, and they were prosecuted for unauthorised erections.

[Huge]

I sit in some very weird meetings about the contents of email filters;

"So, 'bastard' is OK, but 'shit' isn't?"

[Steve Firth]

Rejected - Obscenity

[John Williamson]

[Scott M]

About 10 years ago many of early forums had endless posts with "I'm off to S****horpe" type corrections in them. Sloppy coding really. I think that it's easier to code regular expression search/replaces to do partial words than whole words if you're not up on the mystic runes (every time I have to do regex stuff I struggle!)

[fred]

In article , Scott M writes

The expression wizard in older versions of the Agent Ransack search tool is an excellent helper and tutorial on how to build regex expressions, when I get stuck I still go back to it. It'll give the option of inserting backslashes automatically on searches including special characters.

Screengrab here:

's version 1.7.3 build 332, current version tool is not as good IMO.

'll upload the old ver somewhere if there is demand.

Quick google finds other dedicated tools online & desktop eg:

[Scott M]

for regex creation. Obvious really!

[fred]

After posting I realised that the new version will do exactly the same as the old one eg. Finding pdf files:

Entering (new): Line 1: don't know Line 2: .pdf

is exactly the same as (old): File starts: don't know (default) Followed by: no entry (default) File Name (or line) ends: .pdf

(Prog will ask about auto inserting the \ for . in .pdf)

[The Other Mike]

I thought you were taking the piss with that one, but it's there on the 1:25000 OS map

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[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Jim K saying something like:

You can leave plenty of ebay profanity in furrin, via google translate.

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