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Dick's Sporting Goods produces a list of 938 banned words; “dick” is outlawed
- dmurray 9y agoDick's probably didn't compile this themselves.
- fiatpandas 9y agoThink this is a modified copy of google's list.
- smcl 9y agoWhat's it used for? Usernames/passwords or something?
- pgrote 9y agoYou can personalize jerseys and sporting goods. https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/products/maxfli-personalized-golf-bags.jsp https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/products/maxfli-personali...
- smcl 9y agoAh thanks, I had no idea. Some of these are insanely specific, weird or tame ("soused", "ovum", "dimwit")
- pavel_lishin 9y agoMany were probably added after someone took a screenshot of a hoodie or whatever they were able to create on their online store, and post it to twitter to the amusement of everyone but Dick's marketing/legal departments.
- loceng 9y agoWhat about Dicky?
- rustlerpride 9y agoAnyone notice that there is a certain m---likcer entry but not the correctly spelled version? haha
- msimpson 9y agoThey outlawed "vulgar"...
- qbrass 9y agoThey rightfully banned "prude".
- dumbfounder 9y agoMy favorite is whoralicious.
- adtac 9y agoWhy would you outlaw 'fat'? This makes no sense.
- The_Sponge 9y agoThese are words that they think could cause offense to their customers. Fat can be insulting and unflattering.
- adtac 9y agoWhat if someone wanted to say "I'd like to reduce my body fat"?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoThen the submitted content would probably get flagged for manual review, and would be approved.
- booleandilemma 9y agoVery imaginative list.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoCommon 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 9y agoNow if I could just get Dick's to quit spamming me. Maybe if I use this list ...