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Why Not Just Use Word Filters/Replacements?

posted by Justintoxicated on AskPhuks

I was just thinking about the Voat situation and many of the issues facing "free speech" platforms.

Besides attracting an audience that tends to shit where they eat I was thinking a good portion of the issues they have stem from a few words.

The discussion of free speech and censorship on these sites almost always boils down to a few words.

Which reminded me of the time when 4chan decided to create a word filter to replace certain words with "rudy poo" and "the people's champion". It was a fun creative way to skirt some site issues for a time.

So why not word filter the words that will get you demonetized and deplatformed, the community will know what the words mean and outsiders seeking to bring down your community would have to do a lot more work to prove intent.

I was just thinking about the Voat situation and many of the issues facing "free speech" platforms. Besides attracting an audience that tends to shit where they eat I was thinking a good portion of the issues they have stem from a few words. The discussion of free speech and censorship on these sites almost always boils down to a few words. Which reminded me of the time when 4chan decided to create a word filter to replace certain words with "rudy poo" and "the people's champion". It was a fun creative way to skirt some site issues for a time. So why not word filter the words that will get you demonetized and deplatformed, the community will know what the words mean and outsiders seeking to bring down your community would have to do a lot more work to prove intent.

19 comments

[–] Justintoxicated [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Just to clarify, I'm not talking about doing it here, it's more of a "why don't they do it there" thing. Seems like it would save these sites a lot of hassle.

[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

Oh well yes that is a good idea and good thinking. Yeah I'm just so happy to not have them here lol!

[–] Justintoxicated [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I remember when on Voat Amalek was constantly getting banned for his long spamming of racial rants, he was not the norm and for the most part was the running gag of the community. A couple years later and Amalek won, almost all the frontpage posts were racial Amalek rant style posts. Kind of a fucked up turn of events.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

Yeah if you were new they'd have groups that watched you and if you weren't racist enough would downvote you to limit your ccp so you could not post as much. When I started an alt I'd have to stay in certain places until I had enough ccp to be established.