Make the slur filter editable from the site itself · Issue #622 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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It's generally not a good idea to hard code something like the slur filter because the needs of every instance is different. Instances in another language would need their versions, and cas...

The Chapo.Chat moderators have already stated that they're planning on removing the hard-coded slur filter from their instance of Lemmy; it's the reason you're not able to say the full text of ACAB. It's just a bad idea to have something like this hard-coded in, leftist instances are created by fostering a good culture and not by babying the people who run these servers and if we want Lemmy to grow as an actual federated alternative to Reddit then it's worth bringing up how bad this policy is by the original developers.

  • AssaultRifle15 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't understand why that word is even on the list of slurs. Is it offensive to people who were born out of wedlock?

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Beats the hell out of me, ten bucks says they might have just gotten a list of slurs from online and used that as a base and never really thought about it because this is the first major instance as far as I can tell.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I think it's the last syllable
        the sremovedhorpe problem

        edit:lol, it has the actual one from the early 2000s too

        link

        edit2: IT KILLED THE FUCKING LINK TO THE PROBLEM AHAHAHAHAHA

        • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Oof, it took it right out of the middle of your word, that's pretty bad

          Edit: Hahahaha what the fuck

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            it's the S[strong swear word for vagina/misogynist slur if american]horpe problem, named after a town in england that got caught up in filters on the early internet

            • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Yeah, this is kind of hilarious. Fark.com was famous for its word filter but that one was used for a gag and it was a still little bit more robust than this one. Looking forward to the weird Bowlderizations we come up with in the meantime.

              • steely_its_a_dildo [any]
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                4 years ago

                the only really funny word filter that I can remember from SA was when people in FYAD wouldn't stop using the (hard r) n word so they filtered it to 'grandma'