Interesting concept. I open it and the very first chat i see is a slightly obfuscated n-word. Seems like most activity is just seeing if people have already said curse words, and apprending words with some character to make a single-word sentence.
If you just put an underscore between each word then the redaction moves to units of sentences instead of words. If you permute the underscores with hyphens then each sentence is easily accomplished near factorially with sentence length.
Even better allow a set Levenshtein distance from the dictionary list of up to half the word length or something. Normalize the unicode or at least just convert punctuation, underscores, dashes, and other symbols to spaces.
And they made the code for their IRC bot open source, linked to at the bottom of that blog post. The link is now dead, but an archived copy of it can be found at https://archive.ph/d9KMK
Interesting concept. I open it and the very first chat i see is a slightly obfuscated n-word. Seems like most activity is just seeing if people have already said curse words, and apprending words with some character to make a single-word sentence.
If you just put an underscore between each word then the redaction moves to units of sentences instead of words. If you permute the underscores with hyphens then each sentence is easily accomplished near factorially with sentence length.
This should also redact any non-dictionary words. Just_typing_like_this_to_make_a_really_long_unique_"word"_is_silly.
Even better allow a set Levenshtein distance from the dictionary list of up to half the word length or something. Normalize the unicode or at least just convert punctuation, underscores, dashes, and other symbols to spaces.
>Redact-A-Chat is an online chat platform where every word can only be used once a day.
Pretty cool how this is surviving the HN hug of death right now. What's it built on?
5$ vps probably not
What do you mean "probably not"? A $5 VPS should be able to handle this with ease.
Enjoy. But also sorry to ruin it a bit. This will also work for many word filters online. I kinda feel bad bringing this up.
https://unicode-explorer.com/c/200B
Every now and then the beauty of 90s Internet anarchy comes back in brief flashes
meh... i guess it proves if you take words away people cant chat?
n07 5u23 wh47 y0u m34n?
haha wow i remember making a l337 speak room idle bot in VB6 for AOL for my warez group. Better times :)
Didn't #xkcd irc had a similar channel?
Yes. https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...
And they made the code for their IRC bot open source, linked to at the bottom of that blog post. The link is now dead, but an archived copy of it can be found at https://archive.ph/d9KMK
3 slurs upon entry. "lol"
Infested with imbeciles.