Chat Service provides a server extension that detects and allows you to filter language that you or your employer consider offensive, abusive, or inappropriate for certain segments of your user audience. The Profanity Filter extension can filter words conveyed through all messages, including whispers and invitations, in dynamic and persistent channels. On a server-wide basis, individual filters can be applied to private messages, channel names, and nicknames. You should use this extension especially if you employ a rating system for rating channel content.
After you create a filter, you can apply it to any persistent channel or all dynamic channels on the server. When a channel member sends a message that contains one of the words in the filter, the extension blocks the entire message and sends a private message to the channel member. This message is typically a warning that advises the member not to use the word.
Each filter can also have an exception list, which is a corresponding list of words you want to allow. You can create exception lists by adding words one at a time, or by importing a list of words from a text file.
You can also configure and manage the Profanity Filter extension from a chat client using a set of in-band commands. For information on how to use these commands, see Configuring the Profanity Filter From a Chat Client.
Caution Activating the Profanity Filter extension or any other server extension can decrease Chat Service performance.
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