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Bypassing word filters and workarounds

neelandan

Owner of dot net
At a forum which was announced recently at juot (and the poster banned for spamming) the site admin doesn't like being addressed as "amdim". Long story, it involves a bunch of people at theranter, a site which used to be networked with juot.

So he has set up a word filter which expands the hated word into a long sentence. Sign up, make one post using that word repeated and a small submission explodes to fill the screen.

[NOBB]Amdim[/NOBB] displays as a bold amdim, and winds him up sufficiently that he throws an entertaining tantrum.

I'm right now testing the "miniBB" package, installed at forum.it2n dot net and, if I filter words at that site, I don't want some smart arse taking this technique and making me throw a tantrum.

Is there some function, javascript perhaps, which will get rid of the text decoration tags and present the resulting word to the filter?

Or maybe if I run a forum I should just stop being offended by silly stuff and stop looking for technology to insulate me?
 
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