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Original poster

Your automatic "racist word filter" is a bit trigger happy

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SoupDragon · 10/06/2020 21:34

Apparently It isn't acceptable to use a word for laughing that begins with S and has the N word in it.

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Wizadorawobble · 10/06/2020 21:37

Snigger

Wizadorawobble · 10/06/2020 21:38

^was just testing, wasn't laughing at it!

SayWhatNowNow · 10/06/2020 21:38

WTF

Faraway20 · 10/06/2020 21:39

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This post has been hidden until the MNHQ team can have a look at it.

Faraway20 · 10/06/2020 21:39

Oooh

magicstar1 · 10/06/2020 21:40

I had that on another forum...l I got a pm asking wtf I’d asked a guy. The message showed I’d sent him the word “sblackperson”.

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SoupDragon · 10/06/2020 21:40

So how has that first one got through? are you on the app?

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Original poster
SoupDragon · 10/06/2020 21:41

@magicstar1

I had that on another forum...l I got a pm asking wtf I’d asked a guy. The message showed I’d sent him the word “sblackperson”.
I've had that too!
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Wizadorawobble · 10/06/2020 21:41

Yes, I'm on the app.

Nickname21 · 10/06/2020 21:44

Can we ?

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SoupDragon · 10/06/2020 21:44

So you are allowed to, um, "laugh in a Half suppressed way" on the app 😂

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Nickname21 · 10/06/2020 21:44

Oooh I've been hidden

Butterer · 10/06/2020 21:45

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Nickname21 · 10/06/2020 21:47

We will have to titter or chortle instead.

CatONineTails · 10/06/2020 21:48

snigger

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SoupDragon · 10/06/2020 21:48

Interestingly, it doesn't filter out the derisive term for a person from Pakistan.

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Desertserges · 10/06/2020 21:49

I was once on a forum that couldn’t handle the word Scunthorpe at all.

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SoupDragon · 10/06/2020 22:01

I found this from Justine on another site stuff thread - the one about racism

NB we do have a word filter that we use for spam and we will add this to that, so from now on it will be auto-deleted.

So, that is the reason we are only allowed to chortle or giggle now.

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ItsLateHumpty · 11/06/2020 06:40

Ahhhh I did sni gg er on a post t’other day and was hidden - reported to MN - no reply but my post reappeared.

Bit late by that point, the thread had moved on and the point was lost.

ItsLateHumpty · 11/06/2020 06:42

Hahahahaha ok so I copied my now hidden post and even though I had gaps between some of the letters, it was still picked up.

I said:

Ahhhh I did (edited to pass bot) on a post t’other day and was hidden - reported to MN - no reply but my post reappeared.

Bit late by that point, the thread had moved on and the point was lost.

Original poster
SoupDragon · 11/06/2020 09:07

I wonder if we are allowed to be Sniggering...?

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Original poster
SoupDragon · 11/06/2020 09:07

We are! Hurrah!

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TheEmpressMatilda · 11/06/2020 09:11

I can’t believe it’s taken them this long to ban the N word!

Thank you MNHQ for taking this seriously.

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SoupDragon · 11/06/2020 09:13

Why haven't they banned other offensive words though?

And why haven't they done it properly so that innocent words don't trigger the filter?

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Trevsadick · 11/06/2020 09:16

Is it really bad that I am sniggering?

I used ro be on a forum where, is you swore it would show as 'xxxx' instead. But then it stole all your punctuation and capital letters....i think as punishment. It was really odd.