I managed to fire up the PF by naming my new base (little more than a teleport relais station, really) like this:
0a14:007c:0666:0079 ENE269k Lush Farming
(meaning address, general direction w/ respect to the center, and what's going on there)

Now, what do you think they didn't like? Hmm? Hmmm??
My innocent self, looking at that modest line, had no clue, like, at all, and needed to apply the good old bisection method (twice, even).





Yes, that's correct. Rounding the distance up to 270k solved the problem.
"Moooom! What's wrong with sixty-nine?!" -- " ... "
I wonder how "Black Hole" got by these standards.

- - - was worth a chuckle.

Wait, until they update it, and find some profanity connected to 16 ...

The PF interfering with the chat is even more interesting, since it won't tell the poster, if it kicked in, while others will only see a few asterisks ('***'), if something got filtered.

Makes for funny conversations, especially if mixing languages.

I wanted to name my ship 'Kitty's Got Claws'.

It shows up as 'Kitty's *** Claws' - which actually looks quite rude.

Does anyone know in which language 'got' is a rude word?

Copyright concerns, not profanity. Since day 1 there have been complaints about "got" being filtered out. Asinine but ...

Oh blimey! I'd not thought of the GoT aspect. Holy FLIPPING heck that is pathetic! Maybe to be on the very safe side they should also block the words 'game', 'of' and 'thrones', just in case........

Alternately, could "got" be flagged as too close to "Gott"? The profanity filter can be strange, sometimes.

I've been using --against my style, just for the fun of it -- the all Slavic 5-letter curse, apparently asterisk-less on all sides. Fun!
But, apparently, German users are not allowed to use their words for "that" or "broken" and such.

"I'd like to say *** the Profanity Filter is ***."

That's a rude thing to say!

EDIT:typo

My guess would be, that the profanity filter is driven by a rather simplistic linguistic model, and isn't built to identify and weigh n-grams or do other more clever things with what is thrown at it. I'd even go as far as saying, that it basically has a set of probabilities for certain combinations of letters / sylables to suppress, possibly combined with a few other factors, like e.g. being 'friends' or even (limited) regionality.

As seen from the examples, its guesses can be right, but most of the time it gets things hilariously wrong up to and including to the point of being straight out annoying.

It's an alibi. 'Look, mom, we really tried to prevent them from saying bad things.'.

Poor profanity filter -- we all make fun of you, but rest assured, we very much want you to stay, instead of being replaced by something trying to cleverly analyze sentiment based on cheap wordlists and context analysis gone wrong :)