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I had a post removed today for using the word "spook" in reference to government agents, a common usage that I see around the site, because it is a racial slur, although ive never seen it used with that intent (not that it matters), and it only gets removed maybe 10% of the time. In order to be consistent and not offend any comrades I would propose adding it to the word filter so its removal will be uniform and not open to mod interpretation.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wanna second this but the word is also a verb. As in "I'll spook ya" and that's a very innocent use of the word. The adjective "spooked" is also innocent.

The slur for a person I heard all the time growing up in the south. My parents would use it and so I do feel a particular animosity towards it. The filter would have to know when the word is being used as a noun for a person.

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The filter would have to know when the word is being used as a noun for a person.

The current filter doesn't even detect when a word is used within another word, this will never happen.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Editing out my comment sorry, I misunderstood