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Now that the old Hexbear fork has been officially abandoned, this community will be used as a space for meta-discussion on the site itself.

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I had a post removed today for using the word "spook" in reference to government agents, a common usage that I see around the site, because it is a racial slur, although ive never seen it used with that intent (not that it matters), and it only gets removed maybe 10% of the time. In order to be consistent and not offend any comrades I would propose adding it to the word filter so its removal will be uniform and not open to mod interpretation.

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[โ€“] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The filter would have to know when the word is being used as a noun for a person.

The current filter doesn't even detect when a word is used within another word, this will never happen.

[โ€“] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Editing out my comment sorry, I misunderstood