Is there a database of forbidden on AskWoody, words ?

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I just tries to post a FDA warning about honey that contain V i a g r a.
The post has been block until I changed the word to V i a g r a.

2 days ago I replied with a post that contained – B enjamin F ranklin. The post has been blocked. Has to remove B enjamin F ranklin (was he a big terrorist :-)) in order for the post to pass.

Just got : Your topic cannot be created at this time. Will change to B enjamin F ranklin and to V i a g r a

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Geez….didn’t have any idea those words are verboten here! Innocuous words as far as I am concerned.

I said more that the two sentences above but NOTHING that could be construed as not postable yet I got an error when I tried to post.

Susan, I bet a LOT of us would donate for the purpose of helping you get off this awful host!

So, I was forced to do an edit. UGH. The post went through after I got rid of those “nasty” words and I am adding this after the fact.

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It’s not the host. It’s words that are often used by spammers.  I’m not sure about Benjamin Franklin. Will have to investigate.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Clearly it’s not Benjamin.  It’s probably the combo of words.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Alex5723 wrote:

I just tries to post a FDA warning about honey that contain V i a g r a.
The post has been block until I changed the word to V i a g r a.

2 days ago I replied with a post that contained – B enjamin F ranklin. The post has been blocked. Has to remove B enjamin F ranklin (was he a big terrorist :-)) in order for the post to pass.

Just got : Your topic cannot be created at this time. Will change to B enjamin F ranklin and to V i a g r a

Good for you, that’s not a proper and safe thing for a neat site

 

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And I removed the post because given that you had to spell it out to get around the spam filters, it clearly doesn’t belong here.

Guess what is a spammed email/topic/post? You got it and why it doesn’t get posted on the site.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Alex5723

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Think of it this way – don’t use language here that you wouldn’t use in front of your 6 year old.  For me it’s so nice (for the most part) to read the threads on this site and enjoy being in an atmosphere of professionalism and courtesy.  I for one really appreciate that.

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OK, there are words that may or may not be innocuous, 6-year old proof or not, depending on their context, where to get through the filter one can replace letters with asterisks — whether that will pass muster with a human moderator is another matter.

For example: blo*dy can refer to an accident, a war or other things that are really bad (particularly in Australia) , be an old-fashioned  swear word (again, particularly in Australia — I’ve been there more than long enough to know), and yet be treated uniformly as really bad swear word.

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As you already know, we do not like swearing for any reason. If the filters don’t get you, we will.

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If it is swearing: Careful there. Or so I hope.

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There’s another “B” word that has two g’s in it that I was told not to use in friendly company because it was a very bad word to say in the UK.  This happened many years ago and now, these days I’ve been hearing it more and more on TV shows from the UK.  And they play them on PBS too.

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Charlie, if this “gg” word is the one I am thinking, it is a perfectly acceptable one, in front of children even, in Papua New Guinea’s Pidgin, that serves as the national language there (although it is spelled a little differently, it sounds the same way as in English). Primarily in variants such the common one ending in “up.” It is used as an emphasizer, same as bold letters in writing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin

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No, that’s not it.  This is bu**er, where the asterisks are the letters I gave before.  In the TV shows they almost always say this when something goes wrong or is upsetting.  I think that’s how you spell it.  I rarely use it at all, but my mother used to call my siblings and I this word.

Edit:  I just googled it and it’s not considered bad anymore in the UK or Australia.  No worries I suppose.

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Charlie: That’s precisely the one I thought you were thinking about. That is it’s original English spelling. It used to be more commonly used some time ago.

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Does anyone here see how infantile all this is, in times of war and pandemic? In times of lies and deceit?
What would Queen Elizabeth have said to her son so that his scandal could not be brought to justice? Use your metaverse and do penance, maybe?

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AskWoody sounds like a breeze compared with posting on Times Online.  Their comments section rejects or holds up my posts without apparent justification.

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ScotchJohn, I have the opposite experience with commenting in the Washington Post. So far I have not had a single comment deleted, and I am definitely more forward in my opinions there than here. To put it mildly. But I do not use swear words, because I don’t in everyday life. I think that using them is OK when one stubs a toe or the computer does not do what I was trying to do (my fault usually, but that is no deterrent for me at the time). But to put them in something I am saying or writing to explain a concept or base an opinion or to reply to another’s comment I disapprove of, I see swearing in such situations as showing a lack of imagination.

In any case, this is in the Forum on “Suggestions about improving the Lounge”, so it is OK to discuss these issues here in the way this has been done so far.

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Most of mine go thru quickly some gop to the bit bucket w/o any stated reason.

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If you wish to de-sensitise yourself about the hearing of swear words/phrases then you could watch some of the English-language “Bushman scares/pranks passers-by” videos on YouTube.  Suddenly-shocked people are necessarily quite uninhibited about what they say (and occasionally apologise for having said it).

Examples of Bushmen are Ionut Magadan (Birmingham, UK) and Alvin Hub (Manchester, UK) but “other Bushmen are available”, in Texas USA, Australia, and so on.

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Swear words are heard myriad times in comedy shows, live, on TV, or streamed, here in the USA.

As I understand it, the idea here, at AskWoody, is to keep these words, some of which are, or can be, fighting words, out of the picture. I think this is a good idea, annoying that it might be when some oversensitive moderator, or robotic filter, objects to the use of a perfectly OK word.

I also find the use of swear words both in TV shows and in real life gratuitously tedious, in the latter except in the case of some big and unpleasant surprise, such as hurting oneself, or when alone, in private, venting one’s feelings when something really disagreeable happens.

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Believe it or not it has gotten much better here recently.  Years ago I had one of my posts edited because of the word “crap”.  I was surprised by that because I didn’t and don’t consider crap to be a bad or swear word.

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Charlie: “Believe it or not it has gotten much better here recently.”

I also have noticed that things are getting better here and not only when it comes to one’s choice of words. Although, as I see it, things still have some way to go.

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