# Filter innapropriate username / comment

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/filter-innapropriate-username-comment/72771
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [April 21, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/filter-innapropriate-username-comment/72771 "2024-04-21T15:16:10Z")
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### Author: ![JoshLabor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/joshlabor/32/73941_2.png) [@JoshLabor](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JoshLabor)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/filter-innapropriate-username-comment/72771/1 "2024-04-21T15:16:10Z")

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Hello Im building an e-commerce app that allows users to create an account. My problem is they can enter any username they want which led to some abusing the vulnerability and enter inappropriate names, is there a way I can fix this?

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/filter-innapropriate-username-comment/72771/2 "2024-04-21T15:46:24Z")

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Here are a couple of posts for reference, but I think the general consensus is to use AI to handle this. You could also have a list of inappropriate words and built your own check, but it’s harder to prevent false positives or missed words.

> [@Flag inappropriate words](https://community.glideapps.com/t/flag-inappropriate-words/60426):
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> Can we use ChatGPT to identify if an inappropriate word was mentioned in a text entry? Or would we have to create the entire list and compare if the text entry includes any of the inappropriate words?

> [@Best approach to censor bad words in form input](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-approach-to-censor-bad-words-in-form-input/62442):
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> I don’t want my users to abuse my virtual postcards creation app, filling the form with words that are not allowed (mostly bad words). I already developed a system that can identify separate words from a phrase and compare them to an array of censored words and give me a TRUE or FALSE state that I can use to program the app response. But what if someone tries to write 1 single word that is a combination of 2 bad words (or 1 normal word and a bad word)? I can’t figure out how to “extract” the …
