Previous threads about these filters were people complaining about them being hardcoded, completely ignoring that they are completely optional and off by default. It would go something like this:
Look at this awful thing PieFed does!
def do_the_thing():
# relatively simple code that does the thing
It completely ignored the context that the do_the_thing function is only called if the admin wants to do the thing.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Most of the issues people have brought up have been about why the snippets are even in the code not trying to obscure what the code does.
Again it’s why is this a thing