Civil Tongue - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p><strong>Civil Tongue</strong> is an addon for your <strong>Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla)</strong> community that allows you to define a list of forbidden words that, when used, will be replaced with text of your choice.</p><h2 data-id="enable-civil-tongue">Enable Civil Tongue</h2><ol><li>Access the Dashboard.</li><li>Navigate to <strong>Settings > Addons > Addons</strong>. </li><li>Click to slide the <strong>Civil Tongue</strong> toggle to the right.</li></ol><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/1ZCV0G1BM49W/enable-civil-tongue.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/1ZCV0G1BM49W/enable-civil-tongue.png" alt="enable_civil_tongue.png" height="726" width="1345" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="define-your-forbidden-words">Define your forbidden words</h2><p>To edit what words are forbidden, and what text they should be replaced with:</p><p>1. On the <strong>Settings > Addons > Addons </strong>page, click the <strong>settings icon</strong> associated to the Civil Tongue addon.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/VUKD60RY5O3Y/define-forbidden-words.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/VUKD60RY5O3Y/define-forbidden-words.png" alt="define_forbidden_words.png" height="146" width="1065" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>2. Enter a semi-colon (;) separated list of words and a replacement word, as shown below.</p><p>3. Click <strong>Save </strong>to implement these forbidden words across your Vanilla community.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/474/BHKKW2S5IM6J.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/474/BHKKW2S5IM6J.png" alt="image.png" height="792" width="1706" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><strong>📝 NOTE</strong>: If you want variations of words to be replaced, you must place the shortest version of the variation after the longer words. For example, if you want to replace "dagnabbit," "dagnabber," and "dagnabter," the word "dagnab" must appear <em>after</em> any previous version of dagnabbit in the list.</p><h3 data-id="civil-tongue-and-urls">Civil Tongue and URLs</h3><p><strong></strong>The Civil Tongue addon has a limited capacity to prevent the display of forbidden words in URLs:</p><ul><li>If a forbidden word is the totality of the URL, the text will be replaced.</li><li>If a forbidden word is only part of the URL text, the text will not be replaced in any way.</li></ul><p>For example, we added "google" to our forbidden words list, which results in the following behavior:</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/WLA9TYL1AQNR/url-example.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/WLA9TYL1AQNR/url-example.png" alt="URL_example.png" height="374" width="666" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><strong>🛑 IMPORTANT</strong>: The main thing to understand here is Civil Tongue may block forbidden words from displaying in URLs <strong>but it does not prevent users from clicking these URLs</strong>. For that, we recommend using the <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/269-keyword-blocker" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">Keyword Blocker Addon</a>.</p><h2 data-id="example">Example</h2><p>A post that looks like this when writing it:</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/009/NDQ0XCBUU93H.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/009/NDQ0XCBUU93H.png" alt="image.png" height="686" width="1497" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>Will look like this upon publication:</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/252/XLBOZGNYT525.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/252/XLBOZGNYT525.png" alt="image.png" height="310" width="1348" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="need-help">Need help?</h2><p>Need a list of suggested forbidden words to add? Ask your CSM or Vanilla Support to prepopulate this addon with popular forbidden words.</p><h2 data-id="additional-resources">Additional resources</h2><p>Click the link below to access a video expanding on what you learned in this article.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"For more information, please see:","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/GXW21TRYG1JP\/share-imagevanilla-community.jpg","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/467","embedType":"link","name":"Civil Tongue & Keyword Blocker [video] - HL Vanilla Community"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/467" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/467 </a> </div><p><br></p> </article> </main>