Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry
antik@lemmy.world 11 months agoThe slur filter on lemmy world is very limited. There is an f-word and an n-word. And the reason I added it to the slur-filter was because we had spam accounts posting PAGES full of these words. And even when that stopped we kept those two words in our slur-filter. As the times they would be used “academically” would be far less than their use as an insult.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, it makes sense from a moderation standpoint. I know there’s been a lot of spam with slurs. I think it does hurt real conversations and I don’t like it but it’s not like it’s unjustified. It makes sense.
antik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are still ways to make clear which word you use without using the actual word IMO. Glad I could clear things up a bit :)
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If course there are. But if someone is unaware of the fact that a word is censored and still writes it, the conversation can be derailed into a discussion about which word it is and why words are removed instead. But those are things one has to weigh against one another.