“On Wednesday, users reported an account that had a slur as its handle. This handle was in violation of our community guidelines, and it was our mistake that allowed it to be created,” the company said. “40 minutes after it was reported, the account was taken down, and the code that allowed this to occur was patched.”
Hey Jay Graber, Paul Frazee, Emily Liu, Rose Wang you have an incredibly bad anti-blackness problem on your platform. It says you are hiring. Where is the posting for your head of Trust and Safety? Why is this such a big problem every week or two it seems? If you don't want to run a social media platform, split the company in twain and go focus on the protocol and fund the platform with another team that cares. Or do you not care about marginalized groups?
How have they STILL not said a word? Take accountability, apologize for how bad this was, and advise the specific roadmap plan and options of how they’re fixing it, request feedback from the Black users, and then make adjustments based on there. Having one space for my Black friends to be able to enjoy as much as I have been is worth everything to me and most of my friends.
I am shocked, shocked that the man who made Twitter a safe haven for Nazis and other white supremacist terrorists for years is back to his plausible deniability games.
Also, if these folks weren't able to figure out to block creation of account names featuring the #1 most toxic slur in the English language used against Black people? I think we need to understand that they didn't want to do it.
has some coverage but hard to find because it bans mention of Bluesky The users are tired. Apparently it's not just about nigger but also about sex workers and Nazis https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1680334434283974656
Orange site
Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706856
Fun comment from that thread
There's an MLB player named Kiké Hernandez and there's been some fretting over his name, including calls for him to change it. Which is... something.
// Needs additional work to add more words that should be cought and regex added to catch common variations
const slurs = [
"chinaman",
"chinamen",
"chink",
"coolie",
"coon",
"eskimo",
"golliwog",
"gook",
"gyp",
"gypsy",
"half-breed",
"halfbreed",
"heeb",
"jap",
"kaffer",
"kaffir",
"kaffir",
"kaffre",
"kafir",
"kike",
"kraut",
"negress",
"negro",
"nig",
"nig-nog",
"nigga",
"nigger",
"nigguh",
"pajeet",
"paki",
"pickaninnie",
"pickaninny",
"raghead",
"retard",
"sambo",
"shemale",
"soyboy",
"spade",
"sperg",
"spic",
"squaw",
"tard",
"wetback",
"wigger",
"wop",
"yid",
]
I don't have a Bluesky account. Is apparently invite only, mainly through reddit and Linkedin. I don't have a reddit account.
If someone wants to check in try to get account from /r/BlueskyInvites
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they had a posting strike for everyone other than beggers and whores![:marseyxd: :marseyxd:](/e/marseyxd.webp)
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Theyll do anything to fight injustice except stop grifting for five seconds.
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Tfw you're on post strike but have to keep poasting to explain why you're on post strike instead of stawping
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Commies just can't help but turn literally everything into a wedge for class struggle.
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God I love the word filter![:marseyxd: :marseyxd:](/e/marseyxd.webp)
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rdrama.net keeps mogging every social media platform![:marseycool2: :marseycool2:](/e/marseycool2.webp)
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I have no idea what sexy Indian dude is filtered from. I thought everyone just called them that as a joke and I am just learning now that that is not the case.![:marseycrayoneater: :marseycrayoneater:](/e/marseycrayoneater.webp)
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Sexy Indian dude
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Wait that's a slur?
I've learned a few important things in this thread.
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BIPOCette
Jewish chad Hernandez
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I hate modern censorship environment so much bros.
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I expected a hellish censorship-ridden future, and I even anticipated that the public would be apathetic to it, but I didn't think the public would actually campaign for censorship and get mad when they're not being actively censored
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Huxley > Orwell
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Will BS become the most dramatic website when it opens?? I would love to see that
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I hate the whole "we're so tired, just cave to us, why are you resisting, I'm so exhausted and oppressed, lick my toes oppressor" shit. Like why is their "tiredness" everyone else's problem?
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Because they are fat
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Germs joins the rank of opressed minorities along with people suffering of frenchness![:marseyitsover: :marseyitsover:](/e/marseyitsover.webp)
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This is literally a peep show bit
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Show peep![:marseybuff: :marseybuff:](/e/marseybuff.webp)
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from 1:32![:marseybow: :marseybow:](/e/marseybow.webp)
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Danke![:marseyzwei: :marseyzwei:](/e/marseyzwei.webp)
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I'm sure this outrage is genuine and proportional and totally not a powergrab![:marseyclueless: :marseyclueless:](/e/marseyclueless.webp)
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There's no power to grab. The site barely has any users. It's a preview twitter clone. This is just an r-slured tantrum.
Maybe there's a bunch of VC money that DEI grifters are trying to hoover up but I bet they already have DEI office and the most of the users whining certainly aren't going to get anything except the site they're on dying
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I guess it's like mod/student council drama, where the "power" is irrelevant but still leads to r-slurred scheming and infighting.
Maybe some people have an instinctive reflex to worm their way into institutions?
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Yeah, humans are adaptation executors, not utility maximizers. Now this is pointless, in the ancestral environment this tantrum would have allowed those people to kill and eat some fellow tribesmen probably.
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The less actual power there is, the more vicious infighting for it will be.
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I got thoroughly downmarseyd and fact-checked for suggested VC money will be involved on HN.
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Yep, this is totally on the same level as the others.
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wow they have a whole array of slurs in the source code? such a problematic list should be removed immediately
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You know someone had to type that out. A white man typed out an entire list of racial pejoratives and nobody seems to have a problem with that.
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if i were in charge of modifying that code i’d ask the black programmer to type the word out for me cause i’m not racist. it would take me a while to find a blac programmer tho
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also i didnt know som of these slurs so i’m deleting usless memories to make room in my brain for them
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Snapshots:
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https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1680334434283974656:
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706856:
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/r/BlueskyInvites:
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I also don't see any gender specific slurs. Only "BIPOCette" but that's racial.
Are we to assume that foids are fair game?
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I think the whores like calling themselves bad bitches, sluts, whores etc. Bluesky whores and are mad that they're marking nudes NSFW. Whore demo is powerful
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Coomers and simps have been a disaster for the human race.
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Glad to see bixnood is still on the table. These lists are always hilarious.
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Reddit STILL allows me to have an account called "IDinduNuffinMan", after eight entire years. It got banned last month for harassing a train, I appealed, and the appeals team decided "yes, we should unban Idindunuffinman"
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My IRL name is Mohamad Moneyfodemprogramsmayng but I go by Mo
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He was a good boy
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I'm a good boy. My name is Brian Laundrie
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standard illiterate codecel, also I don't see kafer on the list![:marseyderp: :marseyderp:](/e/marseyderp.webp)
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No Egyptians allowed!
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Ebedazzled bohemiantians
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You can still add
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negro is word BIPOC is word word not bad human make word bad meaning bad but word good so if good abd bad coem from human wthen what bad owrd or human?
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Lol
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I just woke up from a dream where i had to dress up as a skull-and-bones member but their site wouldn't let you apply unless you posted "I hate BIPOCs" in six different places on Reddit and linked your account as proof
Oh frick off
. It's a word. They fixed it. You don't need reparations.
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Soyboy in the list of slurs![:marseysmug2: :marseysmug2:](/e/marseysmug2.webp)
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Very funny. Mirrors similar drama from fedi whenever angry black users decide to turn against admins.
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Ok, but who?
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I can’t find the bastard![:marseycry: :marseycry:](/e/marseycry.webp)
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Wait eskimo is a slur? lol Some of these I have never heard of too lol
But also wigga if you tired from posting on internets, you should lose some frickin weight.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Inuits decided all Arctic peoples should be called Inuits instead of Eskimo, even ones like the Yupik that scientifically are not Inuit at all. They based this on a false belief about the origin of "Eskimo." People go along with it because you're not allowed to call snowmosexuals out on anything.
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Mooncricket is still available.
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If they don't add exceptions to the suggested filter correctly it could catch people with Japan or Pakistan in their names, which has happened before in other slur filters.
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So junglebunny and mooncricket are still good?
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TAG YOURSELF: OUT ON THESE STREETS THEY CALL ME JEWISH CHAD
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