- aku
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- Exalted Legendary Member
Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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There are simply too many variations on the word for a filter to be effective. Noob, n00b, newb, nub, |\|oob, ect, ect.
More importantly, filtering a word creates a problem with other, innocent words. Those words need to be added to an exception list (or something similar), and it's unlikely that all such words will be thought of in the begining. So it would cause problems, and they would continue until all the exceptions are found.
The filter doesn't even stop people from saying the words that are already filtered, it would be mostly ineffective agaist this one.
It's just not worth the work. If someone says noob, they're almost certainly being a jerk. Report them and move on.