A List of Bad Words from Disqus

http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1362527340/sample-badwords.txt

by josephjrobison • 13 years ago

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twerquie• 13 years ago

And that's just one commit message!

danso• 13 years ago

Is this a filter list? Isn't a regex faster for this kind of thing, especially with terms that are just plural versions of other terms?

davidjohnstone• 13 years ago

I imagine it's more complex than that. If not, I'd hate to be a door knob company.

These words are probably used to score messages based on how likely they are to be bad.

spoiler• 13 years ago

Why is "poop" there?! I doubt think think anyone is going to teach their children to say "Mother, I need to excrete feces and deposit them into the toilet."

ph0rque• 13 years ago

You better deposit them in the toilet!

tekromancr• 13 years ago

The fact that that is phrased as two steps led to some very gross imagery.

aeikenberry• 13 years ago

http://slurtracker.com

shitlord• 13 years ago

Wow, the amount of homophobia on twitter is staggering...

brittohalloran• 13 years ago

Flange? Feeling old right about now

stan_rogers• 13 years ago

How is one supposed to discuss groups of baboons without "flange"? "Whoop" is allowed, so I guess it's okay to talk about gorillas. That's speciesist!

jason_adleberg• 13 years ago

did anyone else just look up what "smegma" means?

timack• 13 years ago

I learnt that one from Red Dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Red_Dwarf_concepts#Smeg

signed03• 13 years ago

"There has been some speculation that the name is related to the word smegma; however, this has been denied by the writers"

signed03• 13 years ago

I was one of the words we had to look up when playing Cards Against Humanity.

leethax0r• 13 years ago

Is it bad that I knew what it is?

m_d• 13 years ago

Twunt? Well, I guess you learn something new every day.

ibudiallo• 13 years ago

So you can't post any of these words? I think a community moderated system is much better , because you don't to use any of these words to be offensive

josephjrobison3• 13 years ago

No, this is all optional. From the site owner admin panel in disqus you can add a custom list of words that you want to Block, and you can also add wildcards (.*) characters. I just thought this was a very funny and succinct list with a lot of creative loophole words in there as well.

mladenkovacevic• 13 years ago

Orgasm is a bad word?? While they are electing the new pope, the conclave will be patting themselves on the back for a job well done on that one.

josephjrobison3• 13 years ago

That's got nothin on "Willies", most 5 year-olds would say that without turning a head.

signed03• 13 years ago

At least it will prevent people from spelling Bruce Willis wrong.

minimaxir• 13 years ago

It's likely more of a detect-words-spammers-might-say rather than a Puritan thing.

MichaelGG• 13 years ago

How do we know this is the list that's used? It looks like you can't write "door knob".

Does this really help? Or is this a filter that a site can choose to enable, to claim they did something "for the kids"?

mjschultz• 13 years ago

Before everyone gets their pitchforks out, why don't we look at the URL and see that it has the "sample-" in it? Meaning that this is an example of words that can be filtered. It IS NOT a list of words Disqus automatically filters.

There is a filter tab in the Disqus admin area, one of those tabs is "filter," here is the text around below the restricted words input box:

"Separate words with commas. You may use .* (dot asterisk) as wildcard, but be careful not to be too aggressive. For example, s.*ck will match suck, but also sock and stack. Words must be at least 3 characters in length.

Here is a sample list of restricted words[1]."

[1] http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1362527340/sample-badwords.txt

josephjrobison3• 13 years ago

Thanks for a better clarification than I provided!

lubujackson• 13 years ago

I enjoy that they are all "bad words"... except for the "viagra" variations. As if they just couldn't help putting that in to filter too.

endtime• 13 years ago

Maybe it's being used as a spam filter too?

gobengo• 13 years ago

Then it should be called "spam words list"

aspensmonster• 13 years ago

That's it?

askimto• 13 years ago

I guess that explains why my comment that mentioned C. A. R. Hoare on a programming blog that uses Disqus never showed up...

danielha• 13 years ago

Daniel from Disqus here. We have a list of common restricted "obscenities" used on Disqus-powered sites. That list is provided there for convenience.

A List of Bad Words from Disqus

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