Swear Jar

Short Description:

Mute or swap certain keywords in the chat

Full Description

BACKGROUND:
This bot is the result of a running joke that morphed into a learning exercise and then got a little out of control.

The goal is to add a bit of fun in the chat by swapping certain words, for example "damn" could become "darn", or other words could be replaced with emoticons.

Chaturbate has great potential to be a sex positive community but the perception of anonymity does attract trolls. If this bot helps reduce some racial abuse or body shaming of even a single broadcaster than it will have fulfilled its purpose.

This bot will never take the place of a real moderator but it may give certain users a nudge in the right direction. As a bonus it may encourage trolls to at least tip first.

If you find this bot useful or even mildly amusing, please show your appreciation by sending a few tokens to my inspiration, muse and favorite broadcaster, [redacted] (mention the bot in tipnote) to encourage me to debug, maintain and enhance this bot.

USAGE:
Enter one or more banned words separated by spaces or commas.
Any of these words that match will be swapped with the replacement word before appearing in the chat window. If a swap does happen, the user will be shown an optional nag message telling how much they need to tip to use forbidden words.

LIMITATIONS:
The bot has only been tested in English but should work with any latin based language. Emojis work so that is encouraging.

No attempt has been made to handle plurals or other tenses, so these will need to be added to the banned words individually (eg. smoke, smokes, smoked)

Partial matches within words are not replaced, for example if the word "fat" was banned, then "father" would still go through the chat unmodified.

No attempt has been made to detect common character substitutions, eg, number zero instead of the letter "O". Trolls are crafty and bots will never be able to cover all scenarios.