Forum Moderators: martinibuster
As we all know, Adsense TOS explicitly states that any kind of adult content on the pages is not allowed. As part of new features on my website, i'm thinking about adding a forum for my users. But I'm worried that some of the users may use language/words in their posts that may be considered inappropriate/adult. I'm not one for moderation (at least not pre-approvals of all messages) so I feel this can potentially be a problem with reference to adsense.
One solution I feel is to have a blacklist of words that are not allowed and then replace these with "****" when they appear on the website. What do you guys think? What will be the effect, if any, on search engines that may not consider "****" as good content.
I'm also thinking of not using this filtering if a user is logged in. This is because all my members are required to be adults while signing up. Potentially this means that the Mediabot/Search Engine bots will never see the adult/inappropriate words. But would Google consider this as cloaking? I really do not want to do anything that falls even within the gray area. Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.
Flip
/incidentally, can someone sticky me a link/pointer of where I can get a comprehensive list of such words?
None of this should affect your listings; unless your visitors have tourettes, **** is likely to be a small part of your content. Isn't it?
But for that reason - and several others - you may be wise to consider preventing guests from posting; let 'em read, but only post after registration.
You'd also be wise to keep the filter on at all times; if they don't post cusses, it won't hurt your members. If they do, it won't hurt them to be censored.
Why not replace the bad words, or adult language with <font color="another color than the real text">-this word was censored-</font> or anything like that?
This will make out 4 words, instead of 1, hence the keyword-density for this words won't be counting as much as one word would do..
I was under the impression that bad language was not forbidden under the terms of AdSense, but that nudity was.
Am I wrong?
I was under the impression that bad language was not forbidden under the terms of AdSense, but that nudity was.
What do you think google gets out of "FU** you"?
Or "FU**ING AS**OLE" and language like that?
(sorry mods)
those words are very assosiated to nudity, and would in some cases be taken as nudity language..
They don't define "excessive", but I guess the original poster is right to worry about the potential for disaster on forums.
