Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: syhprum on 10/12/2018 17:24:58
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Jimbobghost claims that his software wont let him use *****, pussyfoot etc because of its sexual connection's; is this an American thing, or a failure of auto fill? I too cannot use the affectionate name for my young kitten! What a strange lot they are at Redland!
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Am I allowed to post about puddy tats?
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I think *****-cats is OK
aparantly not!, can we write about Agather Christies amusing story "ten little nigger boys" ?
I saw a picture on face book with a sign post in the grounds of an indonesian hospital directing you to the gynological department "cunts" some tabu words seem to get thru
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I'm quite surprised you got the C word through; I thought that was in the filter. Maybe it's because you put it in Quotes.
Let's try: "***** cat"
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Guess that's a no then...
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I am surprised the "n" word got thru I thought that was super taboo, can misspellings of taboo words get thru such as ***** or puss or pussie ?
I have heard the c word used by American women talking to each other also the n word is used by n word,s when talking among themselves so perhaps these words arnt seen as so taboo by the American guardians of our language
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... I too cannot use the affectionate name for my young kitten! What a strange lot they are at Redland!
It's not Microsoft : the censorship is built-in to the "Simple Machines (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?action=credits)" forum-software ...
I saw a picture on face book ... some tabu words seem to get thru
Facebook's AI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) only recently learned to read text in photos ...
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-can-now-understand-text-in-images-advancing-image-recognition-cap/532095/ (https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-can-now-understand-text-in-images-advancing-image-recognition-cap/532095/)
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Am I allowed to post about puddy tats?
Sure.
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It's not Microsoft : the censorship is built-in to the "Simple Machines (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?action=credits)" forum-software ...
I can confirm this - there is a system in SMF to blacklist certain words; it also attempts to stop spammy posts, but there are limits...
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These apparently