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Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Post by Kristine1975 »

Cenk wrote: post #5

Some of these are just weird or very specific. I’d love to hear the reasons for them being banned. > #kissing > #newyears > #citycentre > #hornyyyyyyasf > #saltwater

First Google result for #hornyyyyyyasf is: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/hornyyyyyyasf/

Instagram, you're doing it wrong!

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Post by runarb »

clentaminator wrote: post #6
marc_omorain wrote: post #2

This reminds me of Shutterstock's open-source List of Dirty Naughty Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

This is the most beautiful commit message I've read in a long time. https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen... Now what exactly is the thing it refers to?

An exceedingly overweight and possibly unclean individual, according to http://nb.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shit%20blimp

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Post by tfm »

nickdrewe wrote: post #4
marc_omorain wrote: post #2

This reminds me of Shutterstock's open-source List of Dirty Naughty Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

This wins repo of the day!

Having been on several projects that required such lists, I'm glad that such a repo exists, but be aware that it is just the tip of the iceberg. Stakeholders emerge from the woodwork: such and such on the delivery team had a terrible experience before so we should include these words, HR and marketing have company-specific lists to merge in, some of the producers have unsettlingly precise and revelatory requirements ...

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Post by runarb »

Kristine1975 wrote: post #10
marc_omorain wrote: post #2

This reminds me of Shutterstock's open-source List of Dirty Naughty Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

Interesting. "anal" is a bad word in English, but not in German. On the other hand, "naked" is a bad word in German, but not in English. Maybe I should send a pull request...

It may that they did not add it for a reason also. There are a lot of edge cases because many potentially dirty concepts are made up of words that are not bad alone. For example a text can have both "girls" and "nude" in it without being vulgar, but if it has the phrase "nude girls" the chance for it being pornografic is much higher.

( Searchdaimon have done some research on this and have a list if anyone is intrested: https://github.com/searchdaimon/adult-words )

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Post by iheartmemcache »

gypsy_boots wrote: post #3

> #snapchat Huh. I wonder if there is some competition going on here

That was what by far I found most interesting. Those could be easily labelled as genuinely anti-competitive practices - (i.e., it'd be if Google blocked "Bing" lookups, or vice versa (presuming it was manually added by their staff, rather than auto-triggered by a lot of adult content being flagged at the same time, and a heuristic firing off a ban-signal)). MS got into that whole DOJ trouble for bundling their own browser for way less than that.

Re: Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

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Post by atomwaffel »

Cenk wrote: post #5

Some of these are just weird or very specific. I’d love to hear the reasons for them being banned. > #kissing > #newyears > #citycentre > #hornyyyyyyasf > #saltwater

A wild guess, but #saltwater might be in there because it contains twat, a nice example of the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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Post by rangibaby »

marc_omorain wrote: post #2

This reminds me of Shutterstock's open-source List of Dirty Naughty Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words: https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

黒人 (black person) is on the Japanese list. I wasn't aware that that was a naughty word.
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