Profanity filter insanity

[QKO]

Errrn I tested, Moby Dick cannot be used as airship name. The Intercourse is perfectly valid however.

[Clara Skyborn]

Oh, interesting. I see how that happened. Should be fixed now.

[Plasmarobo]

<concern>
Hey, let's not completely obliterate language.

Profanity is profanity, but anyone who is the least bit creative WILL find a way to get around it.
I like that the filter catches the shock terms, but there has to be a better solution than adding every possibly dirty word...
I feel like Intercourse is closer to the "should be censored" edge of the spectrum, but I worry.
</concern>

In spite of my ineptitude with language (or whatever DMax says) I like words. I dislike seeing words obliterated. 

[DMaximus]

Hey, what if I want to name my ships in honor of Pennsylvania's finest towns! The Intercourse, Blue Ball, Fertility, and Virginville shall be the finest ships in the sky!   

(note: these are not actually Pennsylvania's finest towns)

[Clara Skyborn]

I should have clarified: what was fixed was that "Moby Dick" is once again allowed, not that "Intercourse" was disallowed.

DMax, I bet you can have all those ship names, actually. Although "Blue Ball" might raise flags -- the moderators are understandably a little ball-shy (you would be, too, if you read the stuff they read every day).

[Calico Jack]

Because there's no way to whitelist certain words while continuing to block parts of them. If Uranus were allowed, so would be any string containing *anus*. Sorry, I think it's a lovely planet/titan, and I wish we could honor it/him properly.

don't know what language your using for matching but using as approximate matching as possible
#! perl
 /\b(U|u)(\w{1}anus)\b/

this will match on any word that starts with a "u" followed by any alphabetic character so "Uzanus"  will also match but it's limited to 1 character, whereas

/\b\w+anus\b/

which is what you appear to be using which will match any word containing "anus"