@baddox
The "c...j...k" word causes comments on HN to auto-[dead].
Thanks for the tip. That's really dumb.
A few other words do it too (rot13("znfgheongvba") does it as well, but only some of the time). I don't think this is caused by a hard-coded blacklist of words, but I'm not really sure exactly what conditions have to be met for it to happen.
@scarecrowbob: Your comment (the one that is a sibling to this comment) is also [dead]. I have no idea why, this is getting kind of absurd...
Re:Unprofessionalism
by scarecrowbob on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @11:20PM
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HA! My reply that quoted you is dead for similar reasons.
Can you give more hints about this word? I want to know and I don't get the hint.
circle + (beefjerky - cow)
One of the tweets from the article used the term. Baddox quoted that term. If you turn on "show dead" you can see baddox's comment.
I don't take what they are doing as an objective statement about taste, but rather as their own subjective statement, which you can't really avoid doing once you're designing stuff for folks.