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Published: 2019-06-08 17:59:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 965; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 1
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If you comment regularly on ANY blog which uses the Disqus comment-processing software, you've probably gotten recent posts sent to auto-moderation or discarded as spam -- even though you never had that problem before. Disqus has added a word-filter which reacts not only to swearwords, hate speech, and words commonly used by spammers...but also to proper medical terms, childish synonyms for curse words, and mild insults like "dumb" / "ugly". ( I pity the Disqus regular trying to comment on a cooking blog and request a recipe for jerk chicken breasts!)
Even more surprising, the word "monster" landed on their blacklist (forget any discussions of AD&D gaming, horror movies, or half the Sesame Street Muppets). So did the names of some popular web sites that don't compete with Disqus and have strict anti-spam policies themselves (What on earth has Disqus got against YouTube?) Here's hoping the filter-writers come to their senses soon!
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Cookie Monster. There, I said it. He'll always be known as that to me.
Amazing how freedom of speech is being censored on the Internet so much now days, yet, nobody is really making any kind of fuss over it. Only a matter of time before they control everything we can or can't do on the Internet and it just won't be the words we use either. Want to go to a website that someone considers offensive for whatever silly reason they can make up, BLOCKED. It's coming and it'll be a sad day when it finally arrives and catches everyone by surprise who don't think it'll never happen.
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Amen. It turns out that the censors didn't want atheists making "Flying Spaghetti Monster" jokes on religious blogs, or job-offer spammers posting links to the Monster web site. (I mention both, because the phrase "Flying Spaghetti" and the word "job" both got listed in that crazy filter...no kidding!)
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"monster" isn't a bad word, there far worse words out there than monster.
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And MUCH worse insults exist than words like "ugly," "dumb", "jerk", "poop"... all of which made the auto-moderation blacklist. So did "pot" (algorithms don't care if a commenter is referring to cannabis or kitchenware) and the contraction "he'll" (because it contains the same letters as the word for the Biblical underworld). Sheesh!
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