🏕️ Autumn How do I report content? Just saw the N word being used as a username. :/
🏒 Lucian Marin Is there a list of offensive English words that I can use?
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🌘 Alana github.com/retextj... is a good place to start, but would need to be whittled down some
🧩 Ben content moderation is a hard problem. there's pretrained nlp models on kaggle for detecting hate speech (for some definition of hate speech) -> kaggle.com/c/jigsa...
🌚 Nlggers "I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug - that we should create communications technologies that allow people to send whatever they like to each other. And when people put their thumbs on the scale and try to say what can and can't be sent, we should fight back - both politically through protest and technologically through software." -- Aaron Swartz (co-founder of Reddit)
🏎️ Bake legit question - why use that as your username? To shock people? To signal your beliefs? For the memes? Because your actually believe it? As a demonstration of free speech? Genuinely curious, because it seems to me like it doesn't give you anything other than controversy and attention, which if that's your goal, I guess knock yourself out but expect a lot of (imo deserved) hate
🌚 Nlggers I chose it primarily because I'm unhappy with the increasingly prevalent state of censorship online. I do imagine I will receive a lot of hate as a result of it as you say.
🔚 Bort Simpson Unbelievable. You seriously think it's funny to use that word, at this point in time? I bet you laughed when you saw Ahmed Arbery lynched in broad daylight. Pathetic. Aww little baby sad that his pRoUd WhItE rAcE is going extinct? Racists like you DESERVE to go extinct.
🌚 Nlggers Yes, I do think it's somewhat funny although comedy wasn't the primary reason I chose it. I'm not sure to what series of events or to whom you are referring when you say Ahmed Arbery. In general I try to avoid news relating to such things as murder.
Bnaw Let's be honest ML for moderation (except maybe spam) always goes wrong. I really like the approach HN takes.
🎯 Gallium Oxide Save your time and don't bother. Filtered words are already circumvented on other platforms with euphemisms ('jogger' for nigger) or simple character substitutions (e.g. g00k). And as Tyler the Creator famously said, "how the fuck is cyber-bullying real nigga, just look away, just walk away from the screen haha"
🏕️ Autumn Great. I'll walk away from this website if that's the attitude.
🤖 Razi don't forget you can moderate (delete) any replies to you
😏 Yt L. That is a good feature. I wonder if the kind of person who puts a slur as their username would eventually be driven off by almost everyone deleting their comments.
🤖 Razi I appreciate the agency it affords, but it's tough to see it as anything but an arms race between spamming "good" vs "bad" content
😏 Yt L. True, it's a weapon in that arms race. I don't know of any way to avoid the arms race though. Seems like there will always be bad actors... Maybe a future feature for paid users would be the option to upload your own model to auto-moderate replies to you.
🏕️ Autumn Thanks for the heads up, although this doesn't solve the problem. Is there any way to block somebody?
😾 Oskar That looks like a job for NLP pipeline. cs.cmu.edu/~biglou...
🏕️ Autumn Racist slurs would be a good start.
🏒 Lucian Marin Only if they are used in usernames, as you initially said. Logout, delete, etc. are already invalid as usernames.
🌚 Nlggers I imagine I'll be disappearing shortly. Best of luck with your site.
Mihail In what sense you'll be disappearing?
🌚 Nlggers I suspect I may be deleted from the site.