Wordle Bans 'Slave' as New York Times Stops Users Entering Offensive Words
21 points by sebastianlay 3 years ago | 6 comments- cute_boi 3 years agoThe way our society is evolving makes me anxious. Banning is just a red tape. The solution to the problem is not a censorship rather liberation through knowledge. Are they going to ban Black too? We should be teaching why slavery is bad, misery faced by our fellow African people. I read a lot of history books and I should say they do way better task than such bans.
- gs17 3 years agoI really hate this change. It makes sense to ban offensive words as the actual answers, but usually no one else sees your guesses (unless you share them specifically, but usually it's just the colors) and if you typed the word in, it's hard to justify being offended by it being accepted as a guess.
- jaclaz 3 years agoPersonally I don't see a reason to ban any given word, if it is a word and it is in a (accepted/common) dictionary it means that the word actually exists, that is (or has been) used, that people (at least some) know its meaning, etc.
On the contrary, when you ban some words, they form a "list of banned words", and you actually focus the attention on everyone of them.
Think of all the old manuals using the old IDE/ATA concept of Master/Slave (and later Cable Select).
How many people were forever traumatized by reading those?
- captainredbeard 3 years ago> How many people were forever traumatized by reading those?
Zero. This is all a made up problem.
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- thomassmith65 3 years agoSo I was wrong to argue in favor of internet censorship. There are some problems it stops humanity from solving: Wordle problems.
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- IMAYousaf 3 years agoI wonder what they achieved with this? Slave is a pretty good word if I know that I have an a and an e in those positions.