# reply **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 29, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310 "2001-10-29T16:34:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/1 "2001-10-29T16:34:42Z")
Quite right about the humor; suggestion totally withdrawn. But if you’re serious about enforcing the “don’t be a jerk” rule, you might have the software look for the word “fuck” in GD, and then just poke your head in the door to see if someone’s saying “Listen up, you **fuck** ing twit” or something similar. Then, if you consider that jerky behavior, you could call the poster out on it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/2 "2001-10-29T16:43:44Z")
I was under the impression that the vB software _does_ flag certain things for the attention of the Mods, but I’ve been wrong before, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/3 "2001-10-30T03:43:34Z")
**Mangetout** , such a pessimist! Just consider that you were wrong about being wrong and I guarantee your day will be brighter! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/4 "2001-10-30T05:00:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*I was under the impression that the vB software _does_ flag certain things for the attention of the Mods, but I’ve been wrong before, apparently. \*\* I’m unaware of any such feature\*. There IS a censorwords option, which we have turned off. > [@](#): > > censorwords > Type all words you want censored in the field below. Do not use commas to separate words, just use spaces. For example, type “dog cat boy”, rather than “dog, cat, boy.” If you type “dog”, all words containing the string “dog” would be censored (dogma, for instance, would appear as “_**ma"). To censor more accurately, you can require that censors occur only for exact words. You can do this by placing a censor word in curly braces, as in {dog}. Signifying “dog” in the curly braces would mean that dogma would appear as dogma, but dog would appear as "**_”. Thus your censor list may appear as: cat {dog} {barn} barn > Do not use quotation marks and make sure you use curly braces, not parentheses, when specifying exact words. **Mangetout** , please tell me where you’re getting your information. \*Not even AOL had this feature when I was a moderator on their message boards. I quit doing that about a year ago, and they might have updated their software to add in such a feature. It would have been useful. Lynn ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/5 "2001-10-30T08:42:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > **Mangetout, please tell me where you’re getting your information.** Nothing more than seriously flawed deduction Lynn, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/6 "2001-10-30T15:27:24Z")
Or was it awe, respect and disbelief for our never-ceasing vigilance? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/7 "2001-10-30T15:40:05Z")
If I was designing an application such as this message board, I would consider it essential to be able to have posts containing words in a defined list(per forum - there are words that you might permit in one forum, but feel inappropriate for another) highlighted to the attention of a named Moderator; I assumed this already **was** the case because of the prompt intervention so often seen when somebody starts asking about drugs in GQ, but I guess it must just be a combination of vigilance by the Mods and reporting by concerned Dopers. Another thing I’d do if it was my own software would be to selectively Moderate or watch all posts for a given (troublesome) user. But it’s not my software, maybe I should wind my neck in. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/8 "2001-10-30T15:49:50Z")
It _could_ have been disbelief in your never-ceasing vigilance Arnold Winkelried. I was starting to doubt it myself. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/9 "2001-10-30T16:56:20Z")
Actually, Mangetout, that _would_ be an excellent feature. Rather than simply censoring words, I would find it more useful if certain admin-defined words or phrases were brought to the attention of the appropriate forum moderator by the system sending an e-mail with the URL to the specific post. I’m gonna think about this a bit more and suggest it at the vB site. Thanks for a potentially useful suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/10 "2001-10-31T00:14:05Z")
Thanks to **masonite** - for the original suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reply/90310/11 "2001-10-31T03:21:11Z")
Some versions of VBulletin _does_ have a form of what you are talking about. For example, let’s say that I want to find every mention of “fuck” in a particular forum. If I do a search on the word “fuck” that word would be highlighted every time it appears in any post. So instead of reading the whole thing, I would only have to look for the red word(s).