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I'm curious what word you tried to use. I didn't think "fuck" was filtered on dot ml.
"Bitchin'"?
Does ml auto-censor posts for mildly spicy language or something?
Anything that could be remotely considered a slur.
Yeah it’s a pretty pathetic community.
Not swears, just slurs
Including the literal scientific name for a female dog. .ml is a joke.
I mean, I can think of plenty of slurs with innocuous origins. It's about how they're used.
I'm tempted to start a community about the country between Chad and Mali... A nice wholesome community... I'm completely unqualified and know nothing about it but the amount of removed words would be amusing...
I hope you have better luck than I did with my community about Scunthorpe
So do they consider the use or no?
No, it's automatic based on a filter list. I wonder if it accounts for other languages though.
je suis en retard
Any ml users want to let me know if it filtered? I set my language to French for that comment.
lmao
Haven't read their policy -- simply saying origin is a useless way to determine whether or not something is a slur.
Well yeah, which is why a blanket ban on "bitch" would be stupid
A blanket ban on any word won't do anything to fix the problem.
Originally they weren't even going to let admins turn it off.
True, though "bitchin'" isn't used as a slur in this context, it's slang for "cool." Since like 1970 too, it isn't some "new rizz."
If we want to get technical, a slur is "A disparaging remark; an aspersion." So by the dictionary, any negative remark, especially one that is a false or damaging accusation or insinuation, is "a slur." Therefore "you are a silly goose" counts as a slur, as it can be contextually negative to be seen as silly, and it is false to insinuate that you are a water fowl.
We don't really treat the word "slur" in real life as it's definition would suggest, or to reign in my above joke a bit, words like "fuckface" or "dick" would commonly be considered a slur. Instead they're just considered negative remarks by the community at large, to be a "slur" in the eyes of the public (not the dictionary) it has to have something more than just "bad."
I posit that "bitch" is truly no different than those common "bad" words, and should not be considered a slur. Frankly, same for "cunt."
The newest example being "DEI"
I'm sorry have y'all not seen racists using that as a slur lately? Saw a dude refer to Baltimore's "DEI mayor" the other day
Sorry, but... "scientific"?
I think you give the nannies at .ml too much credit.
Female dog probably
Fuckin' for sure.
Nah, they don’t filter “fuck”
The word is “bitchin’”