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Why are people censoring "bad" words? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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[–] hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Some of them coughlemmy.mlcough has a swear filter

edit: world->ml

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on lemmy.world and there is no fucking swear filter.

[–] hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My mistake, I meant .ml, accidentally conflated the two.

I do come across a lot of removed while browsing on my .world account when the blahaj is being iffy, not sure what that is from.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I think for posters on .ml, the words are actually removed and not just hidden from them. So that's why you see it from other instances on their posts too.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

A filter? Let me test it right now...

Fuck.

Unless this is a shadowban type filter, it seems to not be there...

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: you won't get told when your stuff is removed or if you get banned. You have to check the modlogs.

This is Lemmy wide.

And looks like it's still up as of 2 hours after you posted

Edit: Spelling

Edit 2: Spleling

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting, I didn't even know there is a modlog.

[–] hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did it work? How about bitch? That one came up often when searching to see where I fucked up with my info.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Theirs didn't, yours did

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's not a swear filter, but more like a 'potentially discriminatory terms' filter.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I see. I don't mind filters that remove racist or homo/transintolerant slurs, that's keeping a community safer and inclusive rather than enforcement of politeness.

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Wow I didn’t know that. Good thing I switched to a different instance (although it was mostly due to poor performance on lemmy.ml at the time).