Swear Filter - Lameness Filter

Lameness Filter

Lameness filters are text-based wordfilters used by Slash-based websites to stop junk comments from being posted in response to stories. Some of the things they are designed to filter include:

• Too many capital letters
• Too much repetition
• ASCII art
• Comments which are too short or long
• Use of HTML tags that try to break web pages
• Comment titles consisting solely of "first post"
• Any occurrence of the word "gay" or other terms deemed (by the programmers) to be offensive/vulgar