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Assuming it is the word 'poof', a term, at least in my circles, which hasn't been in current use for at least thirty years I'm intrigued to know how YT deals wi
by glaucon 5y ago
Assuming it is the word 'poof', a term, at least in my circles, which hasn't been in current use for at least thirty years I'm intrigued to know how YT deals with obscure slang in, a language with many fewer speakers.
Are mildly derogatory terms in Burmese (1/10th the speakers of English) treated in this way ? I'd be curious to know how an Anglo-centric enterprise such as YT can establish what semi-archaic derogatory terms there are in Burmese. I suspect the comment would be safe from deletion just as long as English speakers can't read it.
- over_the_raibow 5y ago> someone posts something concerning on hn about cultural issues or govt or tech censorship Autists on HN: "I m highly interested in some stupid unrelated thing that brings no light to the main topic which is big tech censorship or biased moderation, but diverts attention of the users ultimately producing no valueable exchange of ideas." It s not just you btw. There are many users that do exactly that on any hot topic on hn, starting entire threads that span dozen of comments on irrelevant things. Not sure if it s a cope, or a "bury your head in the sand" psychological thing, or just a trait of being in tech.
- kichimi 5y agoWhy are you insulting him?
- glaucon 5y agoI appreciate your concern but fear not, no offense taken. I do appreciate all efforts to keep the conversation polite though so have an up-vote ;-)
- glaucon 5y agoOK, good point, I'm going to plead guilty. I didn't set out to do that and I am concerned about big tech censorship and the like but nevertheless I accept that was the effect. Mea culpa.
- over_the_raibow 5y agoLook. It s not a personal observation about you. You can obviously do whatever you want and comment whatever you please. It is just an observation about the way many users on hn react, that s it. No need for a mea culpa.
- JasonFruit 5y agoIt's okay to talk about interesting side points too, like your cultural point about HN users.
- bitshiftfaced 5y agoIt's ok to be interested in things not directly related to the main subject. No need for name-calling and generalizing.
- hehetrthrthrjn 5y agoEven if it's archaic it's still offensive and people will use it to abuse. The problem is that YT isn't able to determine context, which is surely a much harder problem than word match. I imagine. YT does any number of things in multiple languages. Offensive words in Burmese or any other language can easily be implemented with just a word list, which shouldn't be that hard to derive, for example you could scan a dictionary that uses the 'offensive' tag on words like English dictionaries do.