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I support to not censor it if it's part of a word like there's a horse breed I adore, but I can't talk about them on FR because a part of their name gets censored. Due to that part of their name being a slur used against Romani people

but like...I'm talking about horses, not insulting people

To be honest, if it is a coding issue, then it's probably better to post in Bug Reports or submit a ticket under Support.

According to the 7th Anniversary post, the forums actually got a refactor (don't believe I was around for this, but might have missed it). If you go back to very old threads, you'll see that many posts have broken characters. Here's a short thread to demonstrate what I mean. Seems mostly apostrophes are broken, but I figure it's like the same thing that's happening to appetit and what Trix experienced. I mention the refactor because I feel that it's what caused all the old apostrophes to break.

[edit: a word. thanks autocorrect]

Support. There's a lot of really weird censoring decisions on the site.

Is corvid still a banned name?

Pretty sure this is a technical issue rather than an intentional decision. Would be nice if it were fixed but I have no idea how difficult it is or how high on the priority list it is - probably not very considering how long it's been.

Support for un-censoring bon appetit. The individual word can remain censored, but French for "ey you enjoy your meal"? No.


And can we please unblock Corvid? It's a family of bird. It does have a great resemblance to COVID, so it could be considered too-soon, but after the pandemic ends I'd love this name back. There's a lot of weird decisions regarding censoring on the site, and while some are understandable - Cher (kind of regarding Chernobyl) being censored but Cov (kind-of-but-not-really regarding COVID) - they make no sense.

@Apocalyptichorse I mean, the people are relevant to why the horse is called that. It's also called an Irish Cobb, so it's not like the horse itself can't be spoken of.

@Zikitty

Wait, is CORVID blocked? Ugh, that's really frustrating. It's literally just a type of bird. Looking LIKE a word is pretty different from actually being the word.

@trix

ah, in my own language they are only known under the other name. My point still stands though, calling a horsebreed by its name isn't a crime nor an insult. *shrug*

Tbh the censorship on this site is extremely exaggerated and only points out words as slurs while most peeps don't even know about them. Seriously, I've learned tons of new insulting stuff and slurs just because of FR censorship...

oh yeah I noticed that censor back when I mentioned the ragepuffs looking adorable because they look like my favourite birds, Japanese ****.

idk is **** sapiens also still censored? that was a facepalm moment for me too