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My stance is really not in favor or against using (or overusing) a word from a "blacklisted" set, it's more that usually the structure doesn't cater well to the
by brunooliv 3y ago
My stance is really not in favor or against using (or overusing) a word from a "blacklisted" set, it's more that usually the structure doesn't cater well to the audience and on top of that it adds a lot of unnecessary fluff. If I need to download X dependencies but two of them need to be version 1.2.3, by all means tell me it's all super simple to do, idc, really. But give me the exact dependencies that NEED that version for the thing to work. Worse than this unnecessary fluff and eagerness for simplicity or wtv is having incomplete instructions that lead to a non-working setup by the end. Proofread them by EXECUTING them and then, as long as it works, be a Shakespeare about it. There seems to be a lot the expectations of things being broken and a kind of tragedy of the commons being the standard.
- EdSharkey 3y agoIt bothers me when someone good/bad naturedly corrects me on "blacklist" and encourages me to say "blocklist". I figure that stems from either overactive empathy or is a power play. Please continue to say "blacklist".
- bvinc 3y agoI see “blocklist” becoming more popular in programming. But it just occurred to me how bizarre and out of place it would be if the parent comment said “a blocklisted word”.
- School-Cotton 3y agoPlenty of people now say allowlist and denylist instead of whitelist and blacklist.
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoGoodlist and ungoodlist.
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoBlocklist for me is a list of blocks, like the one you gather with badblocks(8) and then pass to fsck(8).