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**administrator** · 1 April 2013, 13:37

Cheers but was NAT's idea

He sent me this a few days ago:
xkcd • View topic - THE RECKONING cometh

I knew I would be able to do it with user names but was not sure with the short common words due to how it panned out when I tried to censor some swear words. As well as the tulip that we still have I did lots of others too but when cockerel became noddyerel and scunthorpe became sdaffodilthorpe or something like that then I had to remove them all apart from the shit: one. Found an easy way of doing exact match replacement on small words as long as they weren't followed by punctuation so thought that would be enough. Had to expand my initial list of 50 words to over 120 for the posts to look messed up enough to be effective so was up late last night adding more!

I only replaced something like 90 user names from the top posters by volume and who I had seen online over the past few days. Some of them didn't come online which was shame so will post them all here in a sec once I have cleaned up all the templates.

So big thanks to NotAllThere for the idea! I was giggling like anything last night when putting them all up. Especially when fullyautomatix spotted what was going on, had to change his username to "justcallmeclaire" and "April Fools" to "I am pished", will undelete that thread in a sec too.

**administrator** · 1 April 2013, 13:57

Posting this in case anyone else has a VBulletin forum and they want a giggle at some point.

I know some of these users aren't about any more but I just took a grab of the 100 or so top posters and rattled through quick name changes for some of those. These were done with the replacement variable system in the styles section of VBulletin. This means they get replaced in all parts of the forum, member lists etc. The change of eek to ook stuffed up the :eel: smilie though, should have thought of that!

Users:

Andy Hallett - 40percentisnotenough
hyperD - ADHD
Alias - Alas
ctdctd - Andyw
SimonMac - ArnoldLayne
Troll - Basil Fotherington-Thomas
DimPrawn - BillyNoMates
Jog On - Bog Off
Zippy - Bungle
Scrag Meister - chasingtheaurora
lilelvis2000 - cliff1968
Sockpuppet - Cockpuppet
NotAllThere - cojak
FiveTimes - couldonlymanageitonce
oracleslave - crapdba
sasguru - cretin
Paddy - Daddy
darmstadt - DarmButNotOutStadt
shaunbhoy - dawnghirl
voodooflux - Denny
SallyAnne - Denny
Freamon - Denny
snaw - deserter
doodab - do bad
v8gaz - dontjointhePCG
malvolio - dontjointhePCG
MyUserName - erm_ooo_i_dunno
BoredBloke - ExcitedWoman
NickFitz - FickNutz
realityhack - fishaxe
SupremeSpod - Gentile
TestMangler - Gentile
Pogle - Gerbil
Malcolm Buggeridge - gricerboy
Xenophon - GuyLiner
MaryPoppins - HairyMary
Ignis Fatuus - I_Am_Fat
Churchill - ICanLickMaOonBaws
KentPhilip - IHAVEANSTD
xoggoth - ILIKEBIGBUMS
EternalOptimist - InternalOptometrist
gingerjedi - jarjarbinks
SueEllen - JR
fullyautomatix - justcallmeclaire
Platypus - Kanga
Gonzo - Kermit
Moscow Mule - Leningrad Llama
thunderlizard - LightningSnake
gricerboy - Malcolm Buggeridge
BlasterBates - MasterBates
MarillionFan - MeMeMeMeMe
Mich the Tester - Mich the Testes
TykeMerc - MikeTurk
Doggy Styles - Mr Missionary
Ruprect - mycatitulipler
vetran - n00b
BolshieBastard - NiceAsPie
psychocandy - northernladuk
cojak - NotAllThere
eek - ook
Cliphead - Pilchard
DodgyAgent - pimpsRus
cailin maith - Pope Bernadette
Pondlife - Poundland
Bagpuss - PussBag
VectraMan - ReliantRobin
DS23 - Saxo
chef - sheff
stek - shrek
Sysman - Sissyman
mudskipper - SkidMupper
zeitghost - slimygreenting
Clippy - Slippy
bogeyman - SnotLady
northernladuk - softsouthernpansyuk
suityou01 - sooty01
minestrone - SplitSac
Bunk - Spunk
AtW - SquirrelBotherer
ketchup - stain
Spacecadet - Stoner
milanbenes - tapechanger
expat - taxcheat
TheFaQQer - TehFokker
El_Diablo - TheSaint
threaded - timebandit
OwlHoot - TowelShoot
woohoo - towhittwoohoo
norrahe - vera duckworth
Wanderer - Wonderer
nomadd - yes.mad

Text replacements were made using something like this:
Word replacement filter - vBulletin.org Forum

The hidden code is:
plugin at postbit_display_complete:

Code:

$find = array( 
'the', 
'because',  
); 

$replace = array( 
'teh', 
'beecaws', 
); 

$this->post['message'] = str_ireplace($find, $replace, $this->post['message']);

Change single apostrophes to be quotes and add spaces so that partial words don't match and you end up with something like this:

Code:

$find = array( 
" their " ,
" they're " ,
" there " ,
" the " ,
" want " ,
" what " ,
" better " ,
" ate " ,
" best " ,
" man " ,
" woman " ,
" can " ,
" said " ,
" think " ,
" was " ,
" watched " ,
" worse " ,
" worst " ,
" written " ,
" wrote " ,
" might " ,
" know " ,
" did " ,
" ate " ,
" do " ,
" did " ,
" it " ,
" going " ,
" give " ,
" him " ,
" his " ,
" seen " ,
" has " ,
" office " ,
" were " ,
" thought " ,
" looking " ,
" look " ,
" best " ,
" down " ,
" make " ,
" makes " ,
" really " ,
" sure " ,
" you " ,
" my " ,
" geek " ,
" certain " ,
" everywhere " ,
" agent " ,
" plan b " ,
" and " ,
" to " ,
" too " ,
" two " ,
" everything " ,
" he " ,
" or " ,
" like " ,
" be " ,
" they " ,
" it's " ,
" its " ,
" kuatb " ,
" bench " ,
" are " ,
" done " ,
" right " ,
" other " ,
" with " ,
" but " ,
" again " ,
" developer " ,
" programmer " ,
" is " ,
" of " ,
" in " ,
" any " ,
" that " ,
" was " ,
" about " ,
" to " ,
" up " ,
" her " ,
" in " ,
" on " ,
" internet " ,
" off " ,
" am " ,
" new " ,
" this " ,
" have " ,
" been " ,
" before " ,
" them " ,
" for " ,
" so " ,
" had " ,
" at " ,
" one " ,
" now " ,
" board " ,
" time " ,
" go " ,
" will " ,
" then " ,
" get " ,
" back " ,
" one " ,
" who " ,
" gets " ,
" more " ,
" not " ,
" even " ,
" those " ,
" world " ,
" phone " ,
" from " ,
" hospital " ,
" after " ,
" having " ,
" these " ,
" take " ,
" sort " ,
" lady " ,
" contracting " ,
" your " ,
" date " ,
" date." ,
); 

$replace = array( 
" there " ,
" their " ,
" they're " ,
" teh " ,
" wont " ,
" waht " ,
" gooder " ,
" eat-did " ,
" goodest " ,
" fella " ,
" womahn " ,
" van " ,
" siad " ,
" thunk " ,
" whas " ,
" wahtced " ,
" badder " ,
" baddest " ,
" writted " ,
" wroten " ,
" mihgt " ,
" ken " ,
" deed " ,
" ated " ,
" doo " ,
" didd " ,
" iht " ,
" gooing " ,
" gived " ,
" da man " ,
" is " ,
" seed " ,
" as " ,
" orifice " ,
" wus " ,
" thunked " ,
" loooking " ,
" lookee " ,
" bestist " ,
" dahn " ,
" makee " ,
" makees " ,
" reely " ,
" shore " ,
" yoo " ,
" mi " ,
" sentient being " ,
" curtain " ,
" everywhore " ,
" parasite " ,
" pipe dream " ,
" nad " ,
" too " ,
" two " ,
" to " ,
" everheryting " ,
" ee " ,
" aw " ,
" loike " ,
" eeb " ,
" them " ,
" its " ,
" it's " ,
" pay attention ass-hole " ,
" contractor dunce seat " ,
" ahhh " ,
" dunn " ,
" roight " ,
" udder " ,
" whit " ,
" arse " ,
" aigain " ,
" l33t skills codah " ,
" object orientated retard " ,
" iz " ,
" ov " ,
" een " ,
" quim " ,
" tat " ,
" were " ,
" abaht " ,
" te " ,
" oop " ,
" ers " ,
" un " ,
" hon " ,
" tinterwebs " ,
" orf " ,
" being " ,
" n00b " ,
" dis " ,
" av " ,
" bin " ,
" beefaw " ,
" dem " ,
" faw " ,
" soooo " ,
" ad " ,
" @ " ,
" wahn " ,
" n0w " ,
" bored " ,
" thyme " ,
" gough " ,
" not won't " ,
" t3hn " ,
" ghet " ,
" not front " ,
" wun " ,
" ooh " ,
" gots " ,
" maw " ,
" nort " ,
" evun " ,
" dem " ,
" wurld " ,
" magic finga " ,
" inta " ,
" horsepiddle " ,
" afta " ,
" avin " ,
" dees " ,
" taik " ,
" snort " ,
" laydee " ,
" tax evading " ,
" yorn " ,
" minge " ,
" minge." ,
); 

$this->post['message'] = str_ireplace($find, $replace, $this->post['message']);

Now I can see how the plugins work I am sure we could hack more with regex with a regular expression replace rather than a straight text replace

This only affected the post content so was happy it was unlikely to break anything major...

**SimonMac** · 1 April 2013, 14:04

Can we have a gold forum where we can stick all these threads and the other classics for posterity?

**oracleslave** · 1 April 2013, 16:15

As an aside, crapdba is most appropriate as I have no technical ability at all

**Zippy** · 1 April 2013, 17:58

Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Can we have a gold forum where we can stick all these threads and the other classics for posterity?

WSS

Edit: I quite liked being Bungle. Not as much as I'd have lliked being Andyw. Not bitter at all ....

**ctdctd** · 1 April 2013, 18:33

Originally posted by Zippy View Post

WSS

Edit: I quite liked being Bungle. Not as much as I'd have lliked being Andyw. Not bitter at all ....

Har Har

**TestMangler** · 1 April 2013, 18:35

Quite enjoyed being 'Gentile' for a while (again)

**Zippy** · 1 April 2013, 19:16

Originally posted by ctdctd View Post

Har Har

Please tellme you've turned in to a reaponsible, tax-paying citizen?
Or are you still shaggng yer mum. For a Findus pancake?

**ctdctd** · 1 April 2013, 19:23

Originally posted by Zippy View Post

Please tellme you've turned in to a reaponsible, tax-paying citizen?
Or are you still shaggng yer mum. For a Findus pancake?

But you're not bitter ?

P.S. What's a "reaponsible" when it's at home?

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