Stuart Preston runs all of our infrastructure at Conchango, keeping our business running and our people talking to each other and clients - oh and he develops Vista side-bar gadgets, VSTS plug-ins and a whole bunch of other stuff!!
After my blog post about the back of the ***-packet. He was kind (daft??) enough to send me the complete list of words that are automatically censored by the Community Server software that runs our blog site.
So here they are! Publish and be dammed!
***, ***, ***, *** , ***, *** , ***, *** , ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , *** , *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , *** , ***, *** , *** , *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , *** , *** , *** , *** , ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, *** , ***, ***, *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, *** , ***, ***, *** , *** , ***, ***, *** , *** , ***, *** , *** , ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***.
SO - what do you think? Are they all that bad??
Oh - I see what I've done there... never mind!
Anyway - you'll have to believe me that it's a collection of the words you'd expect. Also a lot that I have NO idea what they mean, and a whole bunch of extremely derogative homophobic and racist terms. However, apparently I can't have a blog about any form of homosexuality, as even the word for a female homosexual is banned.
Oh, and a really good one... in the UK, French Connection UK branded themselves rather cheekily as *** - that's F.C.U.K. - however that particular term is also banned. So no French Connection blogs on our site then! :)
Obviously we need this stuff, as it prevents malicious anonymous comments offending the world before they can be taken down. It's just interesting to see how the Community Server open source community developed this list that's all... and how it needs to be adapted to suit a particular cultural usage... or does it? Should we be politically and culturally sensitive to every culture everywhere? Is that our responsibility seeing as we have a global platform with universal reach? That's an open question...