I just discovered that some people should be filtered and banned.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
April 12, 2019 4:53pm CST
I have been talking about some words that mylot bans. One of them is h0mo (do you see how I can get past the ban?
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But I insist that it is people who should be banned and not words. Words only have a meaning in a context. But jerks can turn any word into an insult. And then the poor words get tainted by the way they are used.
The old mylot banned the word liquor. I never understood why. But the best joke was when I was writing a recipe with chicken breasts and mylot would not let me post it. Breast, worse still, chicken breasts, were banned. Of course, as one does with robots, I wrote again, this time b reasts.
So then what was the problem? The words? The people? I would say the people. So let´s fight against jerks.
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But I insist that it is people who should be banned and not words. Words only have a meaning in a context. But jerks can turn any word into an insult. And then the poor words get tainted by the way they are used.
The old mylot banned the word liquor. I never understood why. But the best joke was when I was writing a recipe with chicken breasts and mylot would not let me post it. Breast, worse still, chicken breasts, were banned. Of course, as one does with robots, I wrote again, this time b reasts.
So then what was the problem? The words? The people? I would say the people. So let´s fight against jerks.23 people like this
20 responses
@allknowing (153529)
• India
13 Apr 19
I liked the phrase Tom,D.........and Harry but the word with D was not allowed (lol)
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
13 Apr 19
I remember that. I tried to use the word liquor in one of my discussions, but it wouldn't let me write it. I never understood why that word was banned.
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@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
13 Apr 19
Artificial Intelligence is still far to be perfect. A robot is a robot, you enter a number of words that you judge that have to be filtered and it does. What you did to get past the ban, by the way, is a clear violation of the rules.
Line 6 of the guidelines... what is NOT accepted
Using misspellings to circumvent the profanity filter - This is not the place to show-off any colorful language.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
I must have done something else that was against rules But I cannot accept that the word h0mo cannot be used in anthropology ot to mean self
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@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
14 Apr 19
@marguicha I have also noticed that that simple Latin word cannot be used, it only means "human" after all.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
I just discovered that the word h0mo was banned. I was talking about some discoveries of hominids in the Philippines. Mylot tells you to change the words then.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
14 Apr 19
@marguicha now I get it why you wrote it with a zero. But why was it banned?
@MommyOfEli2013 (89830)
• Rupert, Idaho
13 Apr 19
That's very strange that those words would get banned! I agree that some people should, I mean I haven't come across any myself...but have heard stories.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
When you write a banned word, they will not let you post it until you change it.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
@MommyOfEli2013 They have changed along the years.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89830)
• Rupert, Idaho
13 Apr 19
@marguicha That's good to know....I have no idea what the banned words are, but I must have not used any so far.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
13 Apr 19
@marguicha I know I just meant they have some odd rules here
@snowy22315 (209080)
• United States
13 Apr 19
Some places get a bit carried away with banning words that are in common every day speech. I have used crap here successfully though which is kind of a mini swear I guess.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
And the, there are other words that are only seen as a swear word. Yet their primary meaning is quite another.
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
13 Apr 19
you cannot use sspic and span (i had to add another s to be able to post it)
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
That only shows that there is a problem in mylot´s wording.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
13 Apr 19
Words have many meanings depending on who and where they are used.
@Junbals (1421)
• Philippines
13 Apr 19
The "Indecency detector" must have been put in place for a reason. I remember watching a Hollywood war movie where the characters were using the F__k word all the time and it annoyed me. How I wish the final version had removed those nasty words.
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@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
19 Apr 19
It can be interesting. Personally there are discussions removed I often have wondered why when others remain. But over all I think it is a good thing some things are removed when they are.
@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
12 Apr 19
People pop back up pretending to be someone else when they get banned.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54718)
• United States
12 Apr 19
There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to how some words get through and others don't.
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
15 Apr 19
The only time I ever used a word that myLot would not allow me to post, was when I was writing about the remake of the TV mini-series "Roots." It would not allow me to post the name of the main character XXXXX Kinte. The last name was OK but not the first. As still appears to be the case I an still not allowed to put the person's first name.
