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Fossidarity wrote (edited )

I agree that the bot was overzealous, I don't agree that it's unnecessary. For me personally it already helps that whenever I post a comment I have to think twice about using ableist slurs, this is a good thing in my opinion. /u/LanguageBot is not there to spite people, it's there to help people realize the impact their words might have on people who already have a (unnecessarily) harder life.

I made a discussion thread for the bot to discuss what words should make it comment, but since nobody replied I didn't change anything.

The question /u/ziq is asking is bigger than this, should we allow some bots to be site-wide and thus unbannable if there is consensus on whether they are good?

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Fossidarity wrote (edited )

If you want to use the word in a context where it might be an exception you can put them in quotes: "blind".

Raddle won't become "like Reddit" by censoring notifying users that their language might be hurtful.

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ziq OP wrote

Single quotes too?

'blind'

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Fossidarity wrote (edited )

No double ones only. I could change that though.

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ziq OP wrote

And what if there's a space between the word and the quote?

"Stupid people" isn't nice

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Fossidarity wrote

That also doesn't work, also no whitespace is allowed, really only "word" is allowed. Of course anything can be changed but there should be a good reason for that.

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Fossidarity wrote

Sure that's no problem.

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Fossidarity wrote

That might be a bit hard, like the XKCD (nice), but not impossible.

I did consider this before but I also feel like it defeats the purpose of the bot a bit.

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

I think f/shoplifting is a completely different crowd than the rest of the site and there's no way a social justice bot made for the f/anarchism crowd can also work on a liberal / apolitical forum. f/shoplifting would need their own bot that would only pop up when tos-violating slurs like "retard" and "cunt" or worse are used. They're not going to stop saying "dumbass" and "blindspot" no matter how many times the bot tells them to. They're not here to work on their politics.

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LanguageBot wrote

I've noticed you used the ableist word "dumb" in your comment, please refrain from doing so.
Consider instead: dense, ignorant, lacks understanding, impulsive, risk-taker, uninformed, silly, foolish (to replace metaphor); nonspeaking, nonverbal, person with a speech impairment, person with a cognitive disability, Deaf person, hard of hearing person (to refer to a Deaf or disabled person)

Discussion about the words here.
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ziq OP wrote

This bot needs a lot of work still.

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Fossidarity wrote

This happens when it's banned, I really need to fix that but I don't have time for that today I'm afraid.

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