I gather some server is for some arcane reason censoring naughty words to protect our delicate sensibilities. Is it on my end, on lemmy.ml? Is it the server people are posting from? Is it something happening in the federation? Is it the Romulans?
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Lemmy.ml does censor certain words. Like female dogs, or bitches. B. I. T. C. H.
Censorship is pretty on par with a tankie instance lol
You don’t have to be a tankie to censor things. We can’t have people spreading nazi propaganda or saying racial slurs. You wanna become another platform like Voat?
I hope they start cracking down on the slurs narcissist and cult. It’s tricky because those two are legitimate words inside the community, but people have lately taken to using them as pejoratives.
First, always start by reading the public modlog. Mod logs are public.
Next: how about an example? I’m not seeing what you describe, so I’d really appreciate a reference (link) to whatever it is you are describing.
In a few threads now where someone typed an expletive, the post gets censored and it just says removed where the word should’ve been.
I’m trying to link to a comment, but when I check the link, it keeps pointing to my response to them. Seems like some other lemmy quirk, but maybe it’ll work for you
In another post, someone tried to say “resting removed face” but it came out “resting removed face”
edit: well that’s awkward, when I tried to write b i t c h, it did it to my comment here. So it is a lemmy.ml thing?
it does it to your password too, see:
removed
I see hunter2
hunte… wait a minute
Lemmy has a slur filter regex. In case you’re curious, you can see an instance’s regex using this url (replacing the domain as needed):
CTRL+F “slur_filter”
Huh, there are some filtered slurs in there I’ve never heard of before! I guess this probably isn’t the place to ask to whom they apply and how, though. Still, the list isn’t as long as I expected, and doesn’t seem to apply to profanity so much as just offensive slurs. I feel like the “b-word” is a little bit of a stretch, but I can appreciate the intent there.
Thanks for giving the best answer here!
This filter was very controversial, especially because at first it was hardcoded into Lemmy itself, and the devs initially were insistent in keeping it that way. Fortunately they eventually allowed it to be configurable by instance, which is a much more sensible approach. Especially considering other languages and even some english variants. And while most people like you and me appreciate the intent, many are still unsure if this is a good approach to fight the problem. It does seem hard to avoid a lot of silly false positives. I remember someone mentioning being really confused by this “Sremovedew Valley” mentioned everywhere, until they realized it was just Stardew Valley being mangled by the filter.
It’s the clbuttic problem, also known as the Scunthorpe problem.
See also: particitrousers
Wоrd fіltеrѕ аrеn’t thаt еffесtіvе thоugh‚ lаnguаgе јuѕt еvоlvеѕ аrоund thеm․
Аlѕо‚ hоmоglурhѕ․․․ Тhеrе’ѕ роtеntіаllу thоuѕаndѕ оf wауѕ tо wrіtе bіtсh wіth Unісоdе ѕubѕtіtutіоnѕ․
A lot of people use slurs like “narcissist” without thinking, and won’t go to the effort of bypassing a filter. In that case the advantage is it gets people to think about their actions. I am perfectly happy with a system where moderates don’t use slurs and reactionaries can, because it allows us to educate the moderates while banning the reactionaries.
Not OP, but how does one read the ‘modlog’ on mobile?
If you use Liftoff (which I largely recommend!) then you have to open the community or instance that you are interested in, and on the “about” tab (it shows the sidebar) there is a “modlog” button at the bottom, which if you click you’ll see the modlog for that community or instance.
You can open the main page of a community by clicking on it’s name when you see it (like in the header of a post), or by searching.
For opening the instance main page you basically click on the instance name until you see it. Most of the times it will get you there directly, but sometimes you’ll need to find and click the instance name once more.
Or you can open either from a search menu, of course.Assuming you’re using a browser, on the main community page, expand the sidebar. The modlog is linked at the bottom, just above the list of mods. Here’s the modlog for /c/nostupidquestions
