LogFAQs > #893608944

Incidentally, I couldn't hyphenate "self aggrandizing" in that above post like I should have, because doing so trips GameFAQs' incredibly shitty autoflagging system for gay slurs. Which was incredibly annoying because it took me like four re-reads of what I wrote and then having to disassemble the entire post a piece at a time to figure out what was triggering it.

Of course, if the censor detector is sophisticated enough to look for hyphens between letters but too stupid to notice if you just use a space instead, that just underlines even more how stupid it actually is. Even beyond getting into the argument about whether or not you should have autobanned words in a system that already has optional censoring built in anyway.

It reminds me of how I never used to be able to use the word "fetishizing" in context, because all GameFAQs could see was the "shiz" in there, which was auto-banned as a bypass for "shit". Or how you'd occasionally get blocked because the letters at the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next might coincidentally form some word or another GameFAQs didn't like (even if there was punctuation and line spacing in-between), and then you'd have to spend time figuring out what the problem was, then rephrasing what you wrote to fix it.


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