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Old 24th October 2008, 07:48 AM
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Default Board software upgrade - 24th October

As some of you may have noticed, we performed an upgrade to the Board's vBulletin software this morning. This upgrade plugged a number of security issues, and added several new features to boot.

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Old 24th October 2008, 09:46 AM
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Exclamation Rude words masking

Not sure how it's being done or whether it's user configurable, but the masking of the letters s, h, i and t when they occur in that sequence in the middle of a legitimate word like ****ake mushroom or Matsu****a Electric is silly. Although the company is officially called Panasonic from 1 October 2008, the French would still say, "merde alors!".
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Old 24th October 2008, 11:57 AM
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Apart from one of Grahame's trip reports perhaps, I'm trying to work out when the word's "s h i take mushroom" would be used on the forum.

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Old 24th October 2008, 12:59 PM
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Default shiitake mushrooms

I can imagine a trip report where the catering was recorded in some detail but I accept that the ingredients I had in mind would have to be spelled incorrectly to fall foul of the board's ********** censor.
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Old 24th October 2008, 01:41 PM
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Either deal with it or come up with a way to get around it...

It's hardly rocket science...
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Old 24th October 2008, 01:49 PM
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Well, I don't know of any rocket scientists on the board, do you?

Perhaps we DO need one?
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Old 24th October 2008, 02:40 PM
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I can imagine a trip report where the catering was recorded in some detail but I accept that the ingredients I had in mind would have to be spelled incorrectly to fall foul of the board's ********** censor.
Basically it only has options to block a whole word, or part of a word.. the only way around it would be to come up with every way you could use the word s***, like bull****, ****face etc, and block those, so we'd all be free to call Panasonic by its lesser known name and talk about mushrooms!
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Old 8th February 2009, 04:20 PM
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I updated the software this afternoon. So far, so good, but please report any bugs!

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Smile M-a-t-s-u-**********-a Electric Company still censored?

Bet I still can't write about Matsu****a Electric Company, Will!
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Old 9th February 2009, 09:59 AM
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Bet I still can't write about Matsu****a Electric Company, Will!
Luckily Philip the board of said company approved a change in company name to "Panasonic Corporation" , which became effective from the 01/10/08
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