It’s their instance, you can check the wordlist in the config. It’s the slur_filter_regex. If it would bother me too much I’d change instance or spin up my own.
I’m more enraged by shadow banning like on “other platforms”.
What? it looks fine to me, outside of the general difficulty of reading regex. I mean, it’s not meant to be readable, it’s meant to catch all the different spellings if what they want to filter and do so.
What is unspoken there is that censorship is always based on good intentions such as yours. People trying to censor sex are trying to do the same thing you’re trying to do with censoring hate speech.
“Only censoring the bad stuff” is not the solution here. It’s the source of the problem.
Mass censorship is very cool and definitely not a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape.
The idea that moderating slurs on an online forum is a stepping stone to an authoritarian hellscape really requires a special kind of brain worms
I got an instance ban from ML for two weeks because they treat “tankie” like some sort of slur.
I’m actually OK with it.
It’s their instance, you can check the wordlist in the config. It’s the
slur_filter_regex. If it would bother me too much I’d change instance or spin up my own.I’m more enraged by shadow banning like on “other platforms”.
slur_filter_regex":"(fag(g|got|tard)?\\b|cock\\s?sucker(s|ing)?|ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?|mudslime?s?|kikes?|\\bspi(c|k)s?\\b|\\bchinks?|gooks?|bitch(es|ing|y)?|whor(es?|ing)|\\btr(a|@)nn?(y|ies?)|\\b(b|re|r)tard(ed)?s?)",Man, regex is really not the tool for the job here is it?
What? it looks fine to me, outside of the general difficulty of reading regex. I mean, it’s not meant to be readable, it’s meant to catch all the different spellings if what they want to filter and do so.
That’s sorta my point, the complexity of regex isn’t really warranted where a simple blocklist would suffice
bbrertardeds?
Depends on what is being censored. Hate speech? Censor the shit out of it. Sexual stuff? Not needed.
Nope. Completely missed the point.
What is unspoken there is that censorship is always based on good intentions such as yours. People trying to censor sex are trying to do the same thing you’re trying to do with censoring hate speech.
“Only censoring the bad stuff” is not the solution here. It’s the source of the problem.
Automated censorship is never a good thing.