Timeline for Are abusive or offensive words allowed here?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
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| May 6, 2013 at 7:15 | vote | accept | Mohd. Ismail | ||
| Mar 25, 2013 at 23:06 | answer | added | bwDraco | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 25, 2013 at 18:41 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
corrected typo and minor error
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| Mar 25, 2013 at 14:36 | history | edited | James Mertz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 12 characters in body; edited title
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| Mar 23, 2013 at 17:56 | comment | added | terdon | As @Karan said, this is impossible to automate. There are words that are offensive in one language and completely neutral in others. For example bitte means please in German and is a vulgar term for penis in French. | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 1:30 | comment | added | Karan | I think the OP might not have realised that people from all over the world use this site, but the primary language of the company itself (given its location) and most of the staff is English. Thus it's not possible for vulgarities from all languages to be recognised immediately. Best thing to do as suggested is let the mods know, and once they look into it the issue's sure to be handled satisfactorily. | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 0:59 | comment | added | Hennes | What do you suggest? Auto delete or auto-prevent? Then you get false positive (such as the cursed filters which prevented my from looking up the trains to Essex). That cure might be worse than the disease. | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 0:55 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I think its less than obvious , I had to look it up to work out why it was offensive (and boy did I regret it), and one meaning was vulgar slang, and the other an old fashioned past tense of chide. In any case with something like this, there's no real way to automatically fiter words out without unintended consequences. However, if it is brought to moderator attention, its usually taken care of. | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 1:23 | answer | added | nhinkleMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 1:04 | history | asked | Mohd. Ismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |