I Used a Bad Word!
By Vivenda
@Vivenda (583)
Portsmouth, England
November 19, 2015 5:47am CST
Yesterday, I tried to use a Bad Word, and was told that I couldn’t post my Discussion until I changed it! Obviously, I won’t be able to tell you exactly what it was, because I won’t be allowed to, but it was the Latin word meaning “with” – and that was exactly how I was using it! Well, to be accurate, I was using it as a linking word, in place of a back slash (hey, I hope I’m allowed to use that one!), which is perfectly legitimate usage. It didn’t even occur to me that it had an improper meaning, until I googled it and found it in the urban dictionary!
I must admit, I’m slightly shell-shocked. I have had a classical education, and do use such terms quite often. Perhaps I’m being punished for being archaic!
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@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
19 Nov 15
This is so funny. Yesterday an online friend told me a similar story. She wanted to write something about her cat and use a colloquial word for the animal beginning with the letter 'p'. This was strictly against myLot's ethical standards, heehee.
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@Vivenda (583)
• Portsmouth, England
19 Nov 15
I must admit, I had to delete the last sentence from this. To test them, I wrote, "It's a good thing I don't come from ..." inserting the name of a Yorkshire city beginning with S and ending in e which has an, er, interesting configuration of letters in the middle. Needless to say, I was told to fix the "bad word".
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@peterstreep (101)
• Valencia, Spain
19 Nov 15
This sounds stupid apparently my lot has not much confidence in the education and manners of its users. Why should my lot censor posts, I think members could easily censor each other. If someone is using swear words all the time I'm sure it will not be tolerated by the community. But if swear words or other so called indecent words are used in the right context I do not see a problem.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
19 Nov 15
I was amazed that two of my words got through the filter this morning and I thought they would be banned. The bad word filter is a little quirky, but I think that without it, we'd spend a lot of time reporting posts with bad words in them.
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@allknowing (135925)
• India
20 Nov 15
Quite a lot of us have had to reconstruct as those bad words were not accepted. Mine was not a bad word in the context it was used.
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@celticeagle (166672)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Nov 15
They have to do it clear across the board or there would be some very naughty things going on. I don't think any of us want that.
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