“Psycho” is an ableist slur and therefore the filter should censor it in comments and stuff.


Edit: Psycho is an ableist slur because it dehumanizes and demonizes people who are psychotic (and I've heard that psycho also means psychopathy, but the term psychopathy is outdated, but psychopathy shares symptoms with antisocial personality disorder)

With the way the filter works, this also might end up with many false positives from people talking abt Psychology since it doesn't detect spaces and can trigger even if the bad word is part of a good word (Ex: In class, we had an assignment)

Also usually discussion abt filter changes would go to Contact us to avoid inappropriate discussion.

No support
There's a slur I can't say (in the context of the slur), but it's the name of a snack
There's no way to detect context unless it's like “give me your address”
So if someone says “i like saltine crackers” they would get flagged. Also like ChristianScratcher1 said, use Contact Us for things like this

Schizo isn’t banned either
Support. This should also affect other language slurs, as despite being a site for many many years, the filter doesn’t translate text

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Schizo isn’t banned either
Support. This should also affect other language slurs, as despite being a site for many many years, the filter doesn’t translate text

wouldn't it cause false detection?

r3hehehehehhe wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Schizo isn’t banned either
Support. This should also affect other language slurs, as despite being a site for many many years, the filter doesn’t translate text

wouldn't it cause false detection?

That’s not possible.
You can say pissing but never just the liquid version

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

r3hehehehehhe wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Schizo isn’t banned either
Support. This should also affect other language slurs, as despite being a site for many many years, the filter doesn’t translate text

wouldn't it cause false detection?

That’s not possible.
You can say pissing but never just the liquid version

I mean like “ blah blah blah (word containing a slur but not a slur or a modified version) blah” since the filters remove spaces

r3hehehehehhe wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

r3hehehehehhe wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Schizo isn’t banned either
Support. This should also affect other language slurs, as despite being a site for many many years, the filter doesn’t translate text

wouldn't it cause false detection?

That’s not possible.
You can say pissing but never just the liquid version

I mean like “ blah blah blah (word containing a slur but not a slur or a modified version) blah” since the filters remove spaces

So like psychopath?

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

So like psychopath?

no like psychology, i learned that psycho- just means mind so it can be in all kinds of words that scratch team doesn't have the time to whitelist

r3hehehehehhe wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

So like psychopath?

no like psychology, i learned that psycho- just means mind so it can be in all kinds of words that scratch team doesn't have the time to whitelist

That still can’t happen. Like I demonstrated above, the filter cannot detect pissing because it has an ING suffix, but remove it and the filter goes off

mostly support. i saw someone say a transphobic slur once

r3hehehehehhe wrote:

There's no way to detect context unless it's like “give me your address”
So if someone says “i like saltine crackers” they would get flagged.

this is why i said “mostly support”

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