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Commenters on HN, please note: The word ”m*sturbate” (uncensored) is an auto-ban word. If you include it in a comment, your comment is automatically banned. I
by teddyh 2y ago
Commenters on HN, please note: The word ”m*sturbate” (uncensored) is an auto-ban word. If you include it in a comment, your comment is automatically banned.
I mention this because I see three comments have been banned by this already, in this thread.
- btbuildem 2y agoWow I didn't realize hn had a purity filter. Is there a list of banned words somewhere?
- redundantly 2y agoThat's silly. I'm guessing it's to prevent bot spam?
- GaggiX 2y agoI don't think that the word "masturbate" is banned, but we will see.
- teddyh 2y agoNote to future readers: This comment by GaggiX was indeed initially banned (or “dead” as is the official HN term). The comment was presumably either unbanned by the moderators, or more likely vouched by enough users to automatically un-ban it.
- GaggiX 2y agoJust tested and it's actually banned, Dang's advanced moderation filter. I didn't even know there was a dictionary based filter.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- happytoexplain 2y agoThat's very surprising to me. Is there a rationale or discussion you can link? I have used way more sexually explicit words, and even slurs, in HN comments. Edit: I see the link under a sibling. Fascinating.
- OutOfHere 2y agoComments are not "banned"; they are removed. A ban is an action that applies to a user, not to a comment.
- teddyh 2y agoTo be precise, the HN term is “dead”: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#dead https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#dead>