I had a post removed today for using the word “spook” in reference to government agents, a common usage that I see around the site, because it is a racial slur, although ive never seen it used with that intent (not that it matters), and it only gets removed maybe 10% of the time. In order to be consistent and not offend any comrades I would propose adding it to the word filter so its removal will be uniform and not open to mod interpretation.
I kinda just wonder what this actually accomplishes. Like no one here ever uses it as a slur, it’s incredibly antiquated, and whenever people use it to refer to feds, it gets admonished regardless of anything else. Plus spooky and spook as adjective and verb are pretty common and I really don’t think we need to excise those expressions.
This is exactly the point in my making this post, if I had a post removed for it that means it bothered at least one person enough to report it or remove it, so we should err on the side of caution and just add it to the word filter so we won’t have to have debates over which racial slurs are ok to use and in which context. Spook as a verb can be replaced by scared and spooky can be replaced by scary. It will be annoying for all of a week until people get used to it.