[nodebb-plugin-beep] NodeBB Censor Curse Words Plugin

mr_99

Hi all,
I made a small plugin to help filter out curse words in a post.
It looks for curse words and censors them out.
To install
npm install nodebb-plugin-beep
and find the source:
https://github.com/ninenine/nodebb-plugin-beep
This is my fist attempt so be gentle ;)

@mr_99 Congrats on your first plugin.
Have you put this on npm yet?

mr_99

@Ted Yeah I have
try
npm install nodebb-plugin-beep

@mr_99, just thought I'd check. ;)
I'll give this a test run and supply you with some feedback after I fix something on the plugin I'm coding.

mr_99

@Ted Thanks

mr_99

@Ted am not quite sure, I have removed and reinstalled the plugin on my site and it's working okay for me.
Could you walk me through how you installed it?
Can you see the nodebb-plugin-beep folder in the node_modules folder of your nodebb installation ?

Up and running successfully - my server decided to be silly.

The plugin works using a predefined list of curse words. Perhaps in future revisions the admins could add words to this, and users could decide whether or not they even want their language to be censored.

Everything seems to function great. It even censors titles. The only slight glitch I've found is that if a "curse word" is posted with some sort of capitalization, the censorship process removes the caps.

All in all, it's pretty neat and solid, with plenty of uses beyond keeping potty-mouths in check.

mr_99

@Ted Nice. Thanks for the feedback.
I will look for a workaround. Am also working on an admin settings interface.
If you want to change the list of banned words you would have to open the index.js file and edit the array.

psychobunny

awesome! :) this is going to be epic once you get the ACP interface going too

mr_99

@psychobunny @Ted Added the APC interface, you can change the words you want to ban now.
You can update with :
npm install nodebb-plugin-beep

julian

Awesome work @mr_99 !!

meetdilip

Thanks @mr_99

mr_99

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have pushed much prettier version to npm, I thought my code was broken till I realized a greasemonkey script was not playing nice with the client side script.

@Ted the case of the words will be maintained and not be converted to lower case.

Also, please note that urls will also be censored, which means they will most probably 404.

Hưng Thành Nguyễn

@mr_99 when i turned this on in Firefox the forum become lagging when scrolling.

mr_99

@Hưng-Thành-Nguyễn Should be fixed now

A possible expansion of this plugin would be to potentially reject posts containing certain words. Not that you'd be looking to block posts of those who curse, but if you were having spammers manually register and post a similar message, you could use a string from that message to prevent it from being posted.

Hưng Thành Nguyễn

@mr_99 yeah it's fixed :D

humanmadeaccount

Is there any way that you can customize the curse word output?

like: NodeBB --> NödeBB

Febian

@Ted said:

A possible expansion of this plugin would be to potentially reject posts containing certain words. Not that you'd be looking to block posts of those who curse, but if you were having spammers manually register and post a similar message, you could use a string from that message to prevent it from being posted.

Yeah, +1 for this
That would be an awesome spam blocker plugin :D

shady2k

I have this error:

8/2 22:32 [29610] - ^[[31merror^[[39m: TypeError: Cannot read property 'buildHeader' of undefined
at Object.Beep.init [as method] (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-beep/index.js:17:54)
at /opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:460:13
at /opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:125:13
at Array.forEach (native)
at _each (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:46:24)
at Object.async.each (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:124:9)
at fireStaticHook (/opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:450:9)
at Object.Plugins.fireHook (/opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:406:5)
at Plugins.reloadRoutes (/opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:129:11)
at /opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:656:23
TypeError: Cannot read property 'buildHeader' of undefined
at Object.Beep.init [as method] (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-beep/index.js:17:54)
at /opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:460:13
at /opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:125:13
at Array.forEach (native)
at _each (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:46:24)
at Object.async.each (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:124:9)
at fireStaticHook (/opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:450:9)
at Object.Plugins.fireHook (/opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:406:5)
at Plugins.reloadRoutes (/opt/nodebb/src/plugins.js:129:11)
at /opt/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:656:23

What should I do?