I can't use the word "*****", but adverts for prostitutes are OK?

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endecotp OP

Created Mar ’22

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Dear Apple,

I know that content moderation is difficult, but surely you can do better than this. You seem to have a very crude profanity filter that ****s out words with perfectly normal dual uses, but you can't stop the constant stream of adverts for c all girls in D ubai. Come on, sort it out!

(And amazingly, this message is rejected as "You have included content that is not permitted" when I wrote "c all girls in D ubai", until I added the spaces!)

(The word in the title is a small metal item used to join pieces of wood together, which can also be used as a euphemism for something couples do.)

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Answer 1

Claude31 OP

Mar ’22

Submit a bug report for this, as others did.

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Answer 2

endecotp OP

Mar ’22

@Claude31, poor as this forum is my experience is still that posts here get more attention than bug reports and more useful answers than technical support incidents. YMMV.

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Answer 3

Claude31 OP

Mar ’22

I've had mixed results with bug reports, but typically 1 over 2 get a useful answer. You found yourself the trick spammers have found: use various fonts, insert social characters, to fool the automatic filter. However, I noticed that posts are removed in the few hours after reporting the issue.

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Answer 4

MobileTen OP

Mar ’22

Encode the word skrew as hex and decode it at run time.

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Answer 5

Apple Developer Support OP

Apple

Apr ’22

Hi @endecotp, we appreciate you providing this feedback. This has been flagged for the Forums team. As Claude31 mentions, you can also file this as a bug report and track progress as available.

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Answer 6

endecotp OP

Sep ’22

I'm bored with this now. Constant streams of spam, surely easily filterable, yet nothing is done.

Apple, don't you find this embarrassing? There is lots about this forum for you to be embarrassed about - the number of non-developer posts, the overwhelming proportion of questions that are not answered, the small number of knowledgable people posting useful replies, and so on. Many of those are things that you can't do much about, but surely solving the spam problem is within the capabilities of a multi-billion-dollar corporation.

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