Dick's Sporting Goods produces a list of 938 banned words; “dick” is outlawed

https://m.dickssportinggoods.com/wcsstore/DicksSportingGoods//javascript/Common/bannedWords.json

by sigacts • 9 years ago

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dmurray• 9 years ago

Dick's probably didn't compile this themselves.

fiatpandas• 9 years ago

Think this is a modified copy of google's list.

smcl2• 9 years ago

What's it used for? Usernames/passwords or something?

pgrote• 9 years ago

You can personalize jerseys and sporting goods.

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/products/maxfli-personali...

smcl2• 9 years ago

Ah thanks, I had no idea. Some of these are insanely specific, weird or tame ("soused", "ovum", "dimwit")

loceng• 9 years ago

What about Dicky?

rustlerpride• 9 years ago

Anyone notice that there is a certain m---likcer entry but not the correctly spelled version? haha

msimpson• 9 years ago

They outlawed "vulgar"...

qbrass• 9 years ago

They rightfully banned "prude".

dumbfounder• 9 years ago

My favorite is whoralicious.

adtac2• 9 years ago

Why would you outlaw 'fat'? This makes no sense.

The_Sponge• 9 years ago

These are words that they think could cause offense to their customers. Fat can be insulting and unflattering.

adtac2• 9 years ago

What if someone wanted to say "I'd like to reduce my body fat"?

booleandilemma• 9 years ago

Very imaginative list.

pavel_lishin3• 9 years ago

Common stuff. I work for Bazaarvoice; we have "generic" lists of "bad" words, as well as client-specific ones. We use them to automatically reject product reviews, or to at least flag them for human intervention.

You all can probably understand why these lists err on the side of false positive, rather than false negative.

There's also the occasional fun false positive, such as a reply to a review from a client that would include a URL with one of the "bad" words as a URL token: e.g., "To learn how to clean your vacuum, download the manual at www.manufacturer.com/download?product=123&ass=abc" - where "ass" is some abbreviated variable name that ends up causing replies to get rejected.

(There's also some really, really fun words in some of those lists that I have no idea how they got there. My favorite one is actually from a different company that maintains a word list: N.I.P.P.L.E.S. Yes, all capital, with periods in between the words. Highly specific, and I'd love to know what was the original trigger for adding that to the list.)

drivingmenuts• 9 years ago

Now if I could just get Dick's to quit spamming me.

Maybe if I use this list ...

Dick's Sporting Goods produces a list of 938 banned words; “dick” is outlawed

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