Asterisk Monster (again)

[Xollob]

Ed, you removed my last post regarding automatic deletion of terms deemed unsuitable.

It's now happened again in a question on Amsterdam, the offending term being Rembrandt's Night-watch. Sadly the hpyhen is necessary here, otherwise we'd have a nested T-word (which I wouldn't have spotted if it hadn't been for the asterisks in Vinny's post).

The software that is doing this is obviously a pile of nadgers. Please do something about it.

[VINNY100_2]

quite agree xollob!!

[jno]

wouldn't want to encourage wiseguys to produce words with profanities in the middle of them. But couldn't the robots be taught to recognise and accept specific words - Rembrandt painting, people born within sound of Bow bells, wrist-mounted timekeeper etc - that sometimes seem to be rejected at present? (Of course I can't be sure these are the words rejected, because they just come up as a row of asterisks.)

[Glossopswift]

Has anyone from the small town of Scun-Thorpe ever had a problem I wonder? Let's test it...Scunthorpe.

[Glossopswift]

Nope, it seems that the hidden word there is more acceptable than the one in night-watch.

[Xollob]

In replies to my recent banned posting on this same topic, Quizmonster mentioned that there had been problems in the past with Scunthorpe, and IndieSinger mentioned that weightwatchers and wristwatch are no longer banned. Whoopee.
But does anybody out there know of any comparable software in any online forum?

[gen2]

Yes, other forums have the same problem.  I post on one which censored all word starting with A-double-S but they sorted that one after complaints.  However, that one does not censor the wrist and night words mentioned above but it recently censored a contributor's reference to a restaurant called the Green (type of parrot ending in TOO).  I am also aware that other sites censoring swearwords are not entirely successful since posters know how to get round it using $ insteas of S and similar substitutions or transposition of letters.

[flaming]

I realise now why a perfectly respectable word I used in a post was asterisked out.