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No, but we should ban using the -oid suffix since it originates from an ableist term and we've banned other suffixes with similar origins.
I don’t think that is true unless I’m missing some context. It’s a widely used suffix in English.
I assume you’re referring to
cw slur
schizoidI think a one-off ban of that term is sufficient…
The third definition on that page describes its use as a derogative. I'm fairly sure it originates from
CW:ableism
m*****loid, an archaic ableist term.I see, well I would support banning terms like that, when the implication is basically “lesser human”. Just not trying to get banned when talking about asteroids and hemorrhoids lol
That's my concern as well. There are many modern scientific, engineering, and technical terms that use older slurs in whole or in part, yet in their modern context are not at all slurs.
I'm wondering if there could be some sort of "soft" word filter. Instead of instantly replacing certain words, perhaps there could be an "auto-report" to mods about certain words. They could then make their own decision on whether the word was appropriate in the context of the discussion on which it was used.
It's not like it's absolute, a word doesn't have to be automatically filtered for it not to be allowed here. "Bitch" isn't filtered, but comments using it in a misogynistic way are still removed. It's pretty easy to determine whether a comment has an ableist insult or the word "asteroid" in it.
I completely disagree. It's used in a lot of technical and scientific circumstances. Such as describing Earth not as a sphere, but as an oblate spheroid.
There's other terms on the wordfilter list that I have issues with, such as d=ge=erate, for the same reason. "D=ge=erate matter" is a very specific term in physics used to describe a type of matter commonly found in extremely dense objects like white dwarfs and neutron stars.
I didn't think ”in a derogative way” needed to be specified because people could figure it out from the context, but maybe it should've been. Obviously I'm not asking for *oid to be added to the slur filter, just that using ableist terms ending in -oid shouldn't be allowed.