Naughty Crocodiles

Locce · Jan 18, 2020

Recently I decided to build a couple of mini-zoos just for the sake of breeding some of the species that only allow for one adult couple per habitat. And to track what is bred where I thought it prudent to name the zoos after the bred species. No problem for the most part.
Until I got to the crocodiles.
You know... the big ones. With the (apparently) naughty name.
I guess I could call them Salty Water Crocodiles, but that sounds like I want to sell them as snacks.
TL;DR: Please tell your profanity filter not to make a fuss about salt water written as one word just because the two parts accidentally form a mild 4-letter word when combined.

Indoraptor27 · Jan 20, 2020

Once the profanity filter blocked "Ouranus" (a nile moniter). I was trying to name him after the Greek god.

Locce · Jan 20, 2020

Good to know the profanity filter appreciates the classics. I actually laughed out loud.

Arrakai · Jan 20, 2020

The best part is when trying to trade an animal and it wont let you since it has a "naughty" name, that the game itself gave it...

horse14t · Jan 21, 2020

I played a game once that would censor "grass" as "gr***"
Sometimes these filters need some tweaking

Locce · Jan 21, 2020

I played around a bit to find out if there are more animals that get blocked by the profanity filter, and I quickly found another one: the African Buffalo, apparently because the second half of a "buffalo" is a Spanish genital.
Yep, turns out this game has the worst kind of profanity filter: one that checks for word fragments in different languages without running a contextual dictionary check to exclude words that actually have harmless meanings in that or another language. Oh, and of course it checks for slightly different spellings to match those word fragments to naughty words, too. That's a false positive machine. That's the filter equivalent of a radical evangelical snowflake Karen unleashed. On steroids.
So, yeah, maybe these filters need some tweaking. Maybe whitelisting the names of animal species in general might be a good idea.

Edit for a bonus fact: the German name for that species, "Kaffernbüffel", does not get blocked despite "Kaffer" being an actual slur. This is a good thing, but it makes the filter look even more arbitrary.

Swjosdotschka · Jan 21, 2020

Locce said:
Edit for a bonus fact: the German name for that species, "Kaffernbüffel", does not get blocked despite "Kaffer" being an actual slur. This is a good thing, but it makes the filter look even more arbitrary.

I never heard of that word before and I'm a native german speaker. But at the moment I'm trying desperatly now to figure out what four-letter word saltwater crocodile written together forms. I am lost....

horse14t · Jan 21, 2020

Swjosdotschka said:
I never heard of that word before and I'm a native german speaker. But at the moment I'm trying desperatly now to figure out what four-letter word saltwater crocodile written together forms. I am lost....

It spells "t wa t" (minus the spaces of coarse) which is a British cuss.

Locce · Jan 21, 2020

Yep, and the word "Kaffer" is an old-timey racist slur against black people (based on an even older slur against a certain tribe I believe).

Locce · Feb 9, 2020

Found another animal for the block list: hippopotamus, apparently because of the fragment "popo"... and I have no idea why.
I know that in German "Popo" is a very, very mild word for "butt", but since it's literally the word you use in place of other words when you talk to children that can hardly be the reason why it is blocked unless this "profanity filter" is so incredibly stuck up that it is offended by the very concept of people having a body part to sit on.
Anybody got an idea that would at least fall within the area of (in)competence of a profanity filter?

Swjosdotschka · Feb 9, 2020

horse14t said:
It spells "t wa t" (minus the spaces of coarse) which is a British cuss.

I see, thank you. Drove me nuts

And I probably never had seen this word, even if I had knowen it. ^^'