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The “B” word is not a slur in all situations (3 bugs in the slur filter) (links.hackliberty.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by soloActivist@links.hackliberty.org to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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In this comment my use of the “b” word was overzealously suppressed, silently without telling me. I only discovered it when re-reading my post.

There are THREE #LemmyBug cases here:

  1. when the “b” word is used as a verb, it’s not a slur. And when it’s used as a noun, it’s only a slur if not literally referring to a dog.

  2. my post was tampered with without even telling me. Authors should be informed when their words are manipulated and yet still presented to others as their own words.

  3. The word “removed” cannot simply replace any word. It makes my sentence unreadable. In the very least, the word should be “REDACTED”, and there should be a footnote added that explains /why/ it was redacted.

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[–] soloActivist@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are bug reports and then there is user support. There’s some confusion because I filed a bug report in a user support community (because there is no bug reporting community).

Indeed the user support solution is to either request that the admin to change the slur filter config, or change instances. But the purpose of the thread was to report a bug in an in-band way (without interacting with a Microsoft asset [#deleteGithub]).

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's not really a bug though, as it is working as intended. You may not like that implementation, so you would want to see an enhancement to the code.