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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 #26

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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.

Who uses the word "vagina" for obscene purposes anyway?

Wouldn't vulva be more accurate?

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

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post #9

For anyone thinking of using this: You will never be able to make people not say “bad” things. “ I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. ” http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...

>In 1992, I co-founded a company with Chip Morningstar and Douglas Crockford named Electric Communities.

Oh wow, it's really that Douglas Crockford. Embarrassed to say I only knew of his Javascript work.

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

#46
post #33

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You can check the README. It's from ShutterStock, and it's their list of words to filter image suggestions. https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

Well it's still a very basic effort. If the job it's trying to do is annoy users, it's fine, but if it's trying to limit use of bad language, it mostly fails.

Its trying to prevent accidental autocomplete, not limit usage.

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

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One good reason to use a list like this is to filter suggestions. If a user types 'cun' into a search box, almost all websites will not want to suggest you-know-what as a completion. Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.

I agree in spirit, but then you end up with aggravating cases where Apple refuses to let me write "fucking" and replaces it with "ducking" instead ;)

Or this, literally from this week:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

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

#49
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

Yes. I used to frequent a message board that implemented a really dumb profanity filter. It got to the point that its users would greet one another in face to face meetings with "Hecko!"
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