Does Waze censor words in reports?

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Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby AlanOfTheBerg » Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:48 pm

Update Request wrote:Problem: Why can I not type the word pass and not have it censored in a traffic report. PASS
Reported on: yesterday

As of this posting, the UR is here: https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=6&lat ... -122.89634

I've not been aware that there is censoring going on. If it is, and a word like "pass" is censored because it contains "ass" then it isn't working very well.
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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby txemt » Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:24 pm

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:
Update Request wrote:Problem: Why can I not type the word pass and not have it censored in a traffic report. PASS
Reported on: yesterday

As of this posting, the UR is here: https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=6&lat ... -122.89634

I've not been aware that there is censoring going on. If it is, and a word like "pass" is censored because it contains "ass" then it isn't working very well.


So, now if we start seeing "Waze told me to p my road to the left then make a U-turn and come back" we should suspect that the user really said "pass"? :)
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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby crazycomputingdotnet » Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:50 pm

I am thinking it is something in the sql injection prevention code. It is seeing pass as being the beginning to password and rejecting it.
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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby txemt » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:25 pm

Good point.
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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby jasonh300 » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:36 pm

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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby ghostridetheWhip » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:03 am

"HO" is also censored, regardless of its placement in the sentence.

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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby razor2k » Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:32 am

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What a coincidence, I tried to leave a report earlier today. I entered "as soon as"... and when it posted it read something like ***oon** I thought I entered it wrong somehow :)
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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby AlanOfTheBerg » Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:41 am

This is ridiculous. The code handling this is terribly misconfigured.


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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby jasonh300 » Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:06 am

Okay...this is obviously something new but it's not only censoring anything it thinks may be inappropriate, it censors all sorts of things...

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"Fender bender on Takashita Rd"

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"Sushi Takeout"

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"Sniglet of the day: Passhole - (n) - Driver who overtakes in the slow lane."

I don't know what to make of this one...Passhole is pretty obvious, but "Sniglet" and "who"?
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Re: Does Waze censor words in reports?

Postby xteejx » Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:15 am

Snigger? Passhole and who (ho)

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