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Polar@lemmy.ca 7 months agoHow was white and black descriptive?
I remember making a Minecraft server in 2009 and not understanding what whitelist and blacklist meant.
Allow/Block makes sense. White/Black doesn’t.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 months ago
You’re fucking with me now, right? Had you never heard someone tell you that life isn’t black-or-white? Had you never seen a switch use a black/white, opaque/clear, or smooth/textured to indicate on/off? The only way I could see blacklist/whitelist being confusing is if you’re uncertain about the context that it’s being used in, but allowlist/blocklist is going to be confusing in that regard too. What’s being allowed? What’s being blocked?
Polar@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Whatever you’re putting in the allow list is being allowed.
Usernames, IPs, etc.
Whatever you’re putting in the block list is being… blocked.
English is easy. Fuck off.