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It bothers me when someone good/bad naturedly corrects me on "blacklist" and encourages me to say "blocklist". I figure that stems from either overactive empat
by EdSharkey 3y ago
It 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).