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  2. MDL-72347

Remove Word censorship filter (filter_censor) from core

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    • MOODLE_400_STABLE
    • MDL-72347-master
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      1. Login as admin.
      2. Go to "Site administration > Plugins > Plugins overview".
      3. Verify there is no longer a mention of the 'Word censorship' filter.
      4. Create a course.
      5. Add a forum.
      6. Enrol student s1.
      7. Login as student s1.
      8. Access to the course and post a discussion in the forum containing any of the bad words defined in the 'badwords' string in the lang file.
      9. Check the bad words are displayed (so they are not replaced by asterisks).
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      Login as admin. Go to "Site administration > Plugins > Plugins overview". Verify  there is no longer a mention of the 'Word censorship' filter. Create a course. Add a forum. Enrol student s1. Login as student s1. Access to the course and post a discussion in the forum containing any of the bad words defined in the 'badwords' string in the lang file . Check the bad words are displayed (so they are not replaced by asterisks).
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      Remove filter_censor from core and add it to the plugins directory.

      Eloy discovered that it's not working as expected from, at least, 3.9 onwards: MDL-72336. And Helen mentioned that, even when it was working pre-3.9, it didn't work well (e.g. MDL-61336).

       

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          Task - A task that needs to be completed. Tasks usually refer to work that must be done outside the product. MDL-72336 Review filter_censor behaviors and cover it with unit tests

          • Major - Major loss of function, incorrect output
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          Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-61336 Make censorship filter smarter so that it does not filter out badword substrings

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Reopened

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              sarjona Sara Arjona (@sarjona)
              sarjona Sara Arjona (@sarjona)
              Carlos Escobedo Carlos Escobedo
              Andrew Lyons Andrew Lyons
              Gladys Basiana Gladys Basiana
              David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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                19/Apr/22

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