Don’t know much about the slur filters myself, but it does make me wonder about the type of characters that would fight so hard to allow the use of more slurs.
Some of the complaints are that the filter is too trigger-happy, and that it doesn’t (or didn’t until it was patched) respect languages other than English. Problems with this sort of filtering are known since at least 1996, when AOL banned the entire town of Scunthorpe. It’s one thing to consider this a reasonable price to pay for keeping nazis out, but it’s disingenuous to say that everyone who doesn’t agree must be a nazi themselves.
I have defended the word filter here on numerous occasions, but I think not having a word filter is an equally valid design choice, for the reasons you have cited - as long as the human moderators keep on top of it.
Yeah, I sure understand that moderators don’t want to waste time putting out fires, and the devs don’t want to risk their work would be associated with fascists. It’s just that it isn’t at all obvious for a random user who just wants to post.
Some of the complaints are that the filter is too trigger-happy, and that it doesn’t (or didn’t until it was patched) respect languages other than English. Problems with this sort of filtering are known since at least 1996, when AOL banned the entire town of Scunthorpe. It’s one thing to consider this a reasonable price to pay for keeping nazis out, but it’s disingenuous to say that everyone who doesn’t agree must be a nazi themselves.
I have defended the word filter here on numerous occasions, but I think not having a word filter is an equally valid design choice, for the reasons you have cited - as long as the human moderators keep on top of it.
Yeah, I sure understand that moderators don’t want to waste time putting out fires, and the devs don’t want to risk their work would be associated with fascists. It’s just that it isn’t at all obvious for a random user who just wants to post.