a "why" question for computer and/or Lit geniuses

[mrtnmoon]

I asked this question on the Playground first and didn't get a response, so here goes: in the course of several posts/pm's with someone, we have both typed the name David T e n n a n t. he is one of the actors to have portrayed Dr. Who, I think. anyway, be it a post or a pm, if the letters are all typed together it always appears as David ******t.

can anyone out there 'splain why?

 

[Weird Harold]

I asked this question on the Playground first and didn't get a response, so here goes: in the course of several posts/pm's with someone, we have both typed the name David T e n n a n t. he is one of the actors to have portrayed Dr. Who, I think. anyway, be it a post or a pm, if the letters are all typed together it always appears as David ******t.

can anyone out there 'splain why?

vBulletin has a "censored" list function -- which Lit uses to block various persistent, malicious, websites that spam the forums.

The implementation of the censor list will replace each string of characters in the list with asterisks whereever it finds them, whether it's in an innocent name that just happenes to match or in the malicious spam that it's intended to censor -- which is why the last 'T' in the name isn't replaced; the censor list is looking for T E N N A N with or without a final T.

 

[mrtnmoon]

vBulletin has a "censored" list function -- which Lit uses to block various persistent, malicious, websites that spam the forums.

The implementation of the censor list will replace each string of characters in the list with asterisks whereever it finds them, whether it's in an innocent name that just happenes to match or in the malicious spam that it's intended to censor -- which is why the last 'T' in the name isn't replaced; the censor list is looking for T E N N A N with or without a final T.

thanks... I had a feeling if you saw the question you'd be the one to have an answer.

 

[N_B]

What's wrong with the word, uh, that T word , considering some of the other words used here daily, I would not immagine it's considered vulgur. Unless I'm missing something. In that case, I'm about to look really dumb...

 

[Weird Harold]

What's wrong with the word, uh, that T word , considering some of the other words used here daily, I would not immagine it's considered vulgur. Unless I'm missing something. In that case, I'm about to look really dumb...

It's NOT vulgar or offensive, or any of the "normal" reasons words get "censored," it's more like the "Block Sender" list in your e-mail client. That particular sequence of letters is probably part of a URL for a site that is either known to be infected with a virus or malware or for a site that persistently spam the forums.

Almost any site site ending in .RU is on the censored list.