It’s just pointless, because people find a way. If you ban e.g. “sh#t” aggressively, the auditory will eventually invent series of local euphemisms and one morn

It’s just pointless, because people find a way. If you ban e.g. “sh#t” aggressively, the auditory will eventually invent series of local euphemisms and one morning you find yourself banning “skittles” and “slip” somehow. Sad thing is, these guys never learn the history of internet forums and put the same snakeoil compresses again and again. It gets totally out of control very fast There is a way to censor internet correctly in a controlled way, it is human-oriented moderation. HN is a good example of it (in a good sense). We have near zero “bad” content or discussion here, but you’d never encounter the famous “sorry, your post contains a word from our stop-list”. Because words aren’t a cause, they are an effect. Appeal directly to the cause: human personal sense of the appreciated culture and the reasons to have it. Those who get it will try to moderate themselves out of respect, those who do not will find themselves in a vacuum or quickly flagged. When site owners believe in automated moderation by a whip, they are doomed and rightly so.