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i just replied to a reply in the thread Stuck with reality in your memory palace, limiting speed of imaginary movements and because I used the word chips (you know what I mean) in the expression “the chips hit the fan” it needs approval before it will be shown publicly. I don’t seem to have an option to change the word “chips” in somethings else, because the editing function does not appear for posts that need approval. So I have some questions:

  • is there a way to deal with this, other than making a new post (copy pasting and changing original post);
  • how does this “needs approval” mechanism work?

I have had simular "problems"in the chat on chess.com, in which I replied to a very fast player by saying “blood y (insert place that is really hot), you play mighty fast” and than I got a warning and I was like “for … sake” is this some kind of safe space :grin:?

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Difficult at first try always bad? and some ranting
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Sorry about that. There are parents who may use this site with their kids, so swear words might trigger the filter. There is some machine learning involved, so sometimes it’s a decision by the robot. :robot:

I’ve just adjusted the filter again so it shouldn’t happen as often any more.

We usually approve the posts pretty quickly, but you can send me a message if it happens again and you want to edit it before it appears.

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Another useful tip might be to ask the poster to tag the first line with something like:

[potty-mouth] or [juvenile]

This would allows us to immediately jump to the next post.

The problem with filters is that juveniles can circumvent them - as Reddit mentions. But Reddit permanently bans these guys:

  • Do not abuse flairs/tags:
    [tags] are not to be misused - if you try to get around our anti-abuse measures by abusing tags/flairs, you will be permanently banned

Thanks.

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I appreciate your reply and I totally inderstand your goal to keep this site child friendly.

On the other hand (don’t take the following to seriously), as a result of a recommandation in another thread about writing courses I am now reading “Stephan King on reading” and he is very much against the use of eufemistic language for the sake of politeness; he is very much in favour of telling the truth the way it is best told. Needless to say he has received a lot of hate mail for the way he writes.

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the … hits the fan (expression, when this substance hits a fan on the ceiling, things are really bad).

also:

When you drop a cup of coffee on the white carpet, you say “chips, I dropped the coffee” when there are children in the room.

Chips is a word you use when you can’t say … It sounds simular, so that is why people use it instead of the word, that I can’t type on this forum.

I can’t do any better explaining I’m afraid.

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So annoying… that robot is about as accurate as a PCR test is accurate. Got two in limbo atm.

If this gets thru we at least know that sarcasm and the word ‘sarcasm’ can make it past the bot.

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Sorry about that. It keeps the site spam free. There used to be days where there would be 100-200 spam posts on the home page. It works to keep the forum spam-free, but unfortunately there are some false positives. The spammers evolve, the filters get updated, and then they need adjustment again

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