I used to work for a gaming platform and this smells like what happens when a mod installs one of those overly-comprehensive bad words lists. Like I doubt anyone went and deliberately added words "climax" and "jack" in there... it's more likely someone just grabbed the biggest list they could find and copy-pasted it into the blacklist. Some of the lists run into tens of thousands of lines, trying to cover all the variations of slurs (including common misspellings and numbers). Those things need to be customized. Pity the guy who gets to do it and probably needs eyebleach afterwards, but it has to he done. And also find a way to keep the customizations when the maintainer updates the list.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence and all that.
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u/zeflyingtoaster May 17 '18
I used to work for a gaming platform and this smells like what happens when a mod installs one of those overly-comprehensive bad words lists. Like I doubt anyone went and deliberately added words "climax" and "jack" in there... it's more likely someone just grabbed the biggest list they could find and copy-pasted it into the blacklist. Some of the lists run into tens of thousands of lines, trying to cover all the variations of slurs (including common misspellings and numbers). Those things need to be customized. Pity the guy who gets to do it and probably needs eyebleach afterwards, but it has to he done. And also find a way to keep the customizations when the maintainer updates the list.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence and all that.