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List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by BooneJS »

BorisMelnik wrote: post #7

I wouldn't blindly use this as a blacklist for spam etc, lots of words here like "vagina" might be OK on a medical site or even some racial slurs if a news agency is reporting a quote etc. Definitely a good list to use as a starting point.

Was this list written by a guy?

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

#13

Post by lmkg »

cormullion wrote: post #8

Hilarious. See if you can find: - a word from the 10 commandments - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock - a James Bond film - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by gizmo686 »

BooneJS wrote: post #11
BorisMelnik wrote: post #7

I wouldn't blindly use this as a blacklist for spam etc, lots of words here like "vagina" might be OK on a medical site or even some racial slurs if a news agency is reporting a quote etc. Definitely a good list to use as a starting point.

Was this list written by a guy?

I'm not sure, but the inclusion of "vagina" would not seem to indicate it, as "penis" is included in the list as well. This seems to be a list of sex related words, without additional considerations.

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by m0nty »

"Huge tits" but not "huge melons", "nigga" but not "niggaz"? Who wrote this thing? I think this is about 0.1% of the "naughty" words out there, and it's futile anyway (former school sys admin here, I know what I'm talking about ;) This is before we get onto the desirability of blindly blocking words like "nigger" which have different meanings depending on who is using them, ref. "my nigger", or "tits", ref. "blue tits are eating the nuts again".

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by qz_ »

lmkg wrote: post #13
cormullion wrote: post #8

Hilarious. See if you can find: - a word from the 10 commandments - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock - a James Bond film - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into a dirty word, and seem to have succeeded.

Who was this?

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by greglindahl »

jasoncartwright wrote: post #6
Pitarou wrote: post #4

Made me snigger. Incidentally, you can't use that word on many forums: snigger . I live near a town called Scunthorpe. Scunthorpe residents tend to use the nickname Scunny when they're on-line, because the full name gets blocked so often.

Ah, the Scunthorpe problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

I made a reasonable whack at solving the Scunthorpe problem by building a whitelist of terms containing those 4 letters, and a similar list for the Hiroshita problem. Alas, now IBM owns all that code. As I build a search engine with autocomplete for the Wayback Machine, I'm really missing having it.
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