This emoji, which is also available on the IPS forums: 

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On our site we'd like to stop users from being able to post the middle finger emoji. 

Thanks

 

 

On 10/11/2018 at 2:42 PM, newbie LAC said:

img.ipsEmoji[src$="1f595.png"] { display: none; }

Thanks, found this ^ on that thread, but it's not working - did you do this and another thing to hide it @Gabriel Torres ?

Surprised @Lindy and team want the middle finger here (you can use it in subject lines too!) but I guess each community has a different policy for these things 

Edited December 10, 20186 yr by NeedCoffee

17 minutes ago, NeedCoffee said:

Thanks, found this ^ on that thread, but it's not working - did you do this and another thing to hide it @Gabriel Torres ?

Surprised @Lindy and team want the middle finger here (you can use it in subject lines too!) but I guess each community has a different policy for these things 

@Joel R has a good response in the other topic about this sort of thing. 

Thanks, but we've got a huge forum (nearly 300k users) and the short answer is we need a technical way to hide this emoji. If anyone can train people in general, on a global level, and both now and for all points in the future, not to post offensive content for attention, then that would be great 

Edited December 10, 20186 yr by NeedCoffee

15 hours ago, NeedCoffee said:

Thanks, found this ^ on that thread, but it's not working - did you do this and another thing to hide it @Gabriel Torres ?

My code for images

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 It is a unicode character like any other. However, we are seeing something funny here on our board. If we use the "native" emoji (e.g. entering it using a cellphone keyboard or copying and pasting it from here), the bad word filter replaces it. However, if we enter it from the emoji list (we are using the EmojiOne Style), it isn't replaced. See below.

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Use Bad Word Filter to replace the middle finger

or use  jquery to remove it

$("span.ipsEmoji:contains('\u{1F595}')").remove();

 

@NeedCoffee The two solutions provided on my original topic, combined, work like a charm here.

The list of emoji is not something we control or have any control over. It is an international standard. You can find a list (and more information) of emoji here: https://emojipedia.org/

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It will probably be removed eventually anyway due to people getting offended by it.

And jquery would be a good catchall way to remove it from future and existing posts.

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34 minutes ago, Tom S. said:

It will probably be removed eventually anyway due to people getting offended by it.

 

From the IPS software? From the Unicode standard?

I can provide an answer for the latter:

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Once a character is encoded, it will not be moved or removed.

https://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html

On 12/11/2018 at 3:31 PM, bfarber said:

The list of emoji is not something we control or have any control over. It is an international standard. You can find a list (and more information) of emoji here: https://emojipedia.org/

Well... you do have control as you can add it to the swear filter as others have suggested which prevents it from showing on the forum. You can also hide it from the smilie panel with CSS to help reduce people putting it in there - but if they do, it gets swear filtered anyway.

Just saying 🙂

Edited December 13, 20186 yr by NeedCoffee

10 hours ago, opentype said:

From the Unicode standard?

Interesting. In the past emojis have been removed if I remember correctly. They must have changed the policy.

15 minutes ago, Tom S. said:

Interesting. In the past emojis have been removed if I remember correctly. They must have changed the policy.

You remember incorrectly. The rule applies since Unicode 2.0 (1996). Emoji were first encoded with Unicode 6.0 (2010). 

You're probably thinking of when Apple changed the gun emoji to look like a water pistol and then other vendors followed suit.

So, they could remove it by changing it.

It still needs to fit the defined meaning/description, which is “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended”. 

1 hour ago, opentype said:

“Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended”. 

That would go well printed on a t-shirt.

Bookmarking this idea. Might be perfect for my typography store. 😉

Okay, now for sale. 😄

Just deal with it. People will always find a way to faeces on each other.