February 11, 2005

Stop Banning Words!

OK, I get it if you want to ban drug names and spammers. I was seriously pissed off that the word "socialist" got banned, but ok-it's to do with a drug, I guess I can get it.

But I just tried to write the word "sex" in my comments and was told it was banned.

Seriously-can someone please take the word "sex" off of the MT Banned list? It's fucking pissing me off. I am so angry that others get to decide what can and cannot be allowed to be commented in other people's comments. I talk about sex in my own comments, and others can talk about sex in my comments too.

Seriously.

Please remove "sex" from the MT Banning list and please can we stop being so triggy happy with the banning? If not, I'm going to take my toys and get my own domain, this makes me so angry. I love Munu and I am very loyal, but I will NOT be censored, and I do NOT accept the censoring of other people on my site without even being consulted.

//Pissed off Helen

Posted by Everydaystranger at February 11, 2005 12:23 PM
Comments
#1

The offending word, she is delisted.

SEX!

Woo hoo!!!

Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex!!

It's generally not intentional censorship, Helen. The spammers get creative in ways to make Blacklist work less effectively. They'll put in common words to trip you up, put in common domains like Google.com, etceteras. It's us against them and there are a whole lot of them.

Posted by Jim at February 11, 2005 01:11 PM
#2

I just love you, Jim.

You ever need a kidney transplant, I'm your girl.

I know it's a constant spam battle (I for one have been so angry about spam I considered quitting blogging) but if it comes to banning words I just want us all to remember that anything we ban affects all of the blogs across Munu, not just the spammers.

Posted by Helen at February 11, 2005 01:15 PM
#3

Hells bells, I just tried to post snopes.com over at Ted's and it was questionable content.

Posted by Victor and his seventeen pet rats at February 11, 2005 02:07 PM
#4

OK, it worked here. Let's try a URL from Snopes

Posted by Victor and his seventeen pet rats at February 11, 2005 02:08 PM
#5

Sonofabitchdicksexbreath. It worked here; didn't work at Ted's earlier. Weired.

Posted by Victor and his seventeen pet rats at February 11, 2005 02:09 PM
#6

Or wierd. Whichever.

Posted by Victor and his seventeen pet rats at February 11, 2005 02:10 PM
#7

Victor, I fixed snopes.com.

Posted by Pixy Misa at February 11, 2005 09:51 PM
#8

I don't think people are blacklisting words deliberately. Rather, the spammers are deliberately including words in such a way that they get blacklisted along with their spammy domains, just to annoy people.

But yes, could everyone be careful, and check what you blacklist?

Posted by Pixy Misa at February 12, 2005 12:46 AM
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