Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list
Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list
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- I don't think the competitive Scrabble scene (of which there is a very intense one) really needs to be in charge of the game for everybody. But I get why that contingent is incredibly upset. The set of allowed words is locked in stone, such that people practice and optimize particular memorizations around the particular set of words, and they are barely words at that point, just random collections of letters that form the stepping-stones in their grand strategic endeavor. There are Scrabble experts who do not speak the language, just have memorized the words and are good at the strategy. I get why they're upset.
- They're not releasing the exact list, which is automatically a red flag of some fuckery to me.
- Nonetheless it has been confirmed that “Paki,” “fenian,” and “shiksha” are all on the banned list. Bro what?
- "Bitch," "faggot," and "slut" are all still in the game. 👍
Deciding the list of officially banned words was always going to be a hopeless task, but even within that it looks like they've been doing a bad job.
Edit: Uncapitalized
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Those 3 would already have been banned for being proper nouns, wouldn't they?
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Is "jew" still on the list? That one didn't make a damn bit of sense.
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Yeah, that's weird.
JEW JEWED JEWING JEWS
All removed.
On the other hand, quite a lot of the list does make perfect sense for them to remove. "Jewed" probably needs to go. The next word is"jigaboo", also. 😬 😬 😬
Full list: https://ia903406.us.archive.org/31/items/csw21/CSW19-removed-words.txt
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My grandma, a very sweet, timid small old lady, once threw down a "C U N T" then innocently said, "What? It's a word."
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- This article is 3 years old.
- Good luck finding the actual list. This redditor apparently compiled one themselves. https://www.reddit.com/r/scrabble/comments/my5tie/the_419_words_erased_from_csw/
- Like all censorship: this is ineffectual and incomplete. Do enjoy digging around the list of words still allowed "because they have secondary nonoffensive definitions" like bitch, cunt, asshole, suckhole, sonofabitch, and of course....
FUCK FUCKED FUCKER FUCKERS FUCKFACE FUCKFACES FUCKHEAD FUCKHEADS FUCKING FUCKINGS FUCKOFF FUCKOFFS FUCKS FUCKUP FUCKUPS FUCKWIT FUCKWITS
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Holy shit, my sides.
ASPIE ASPIES ... BUBBA (?) ... BULLDIKE BULLDIKES BULLDYKE BULLDYKES BUMBOY BUMBOYS CHINKIE CHINKIES CHOLO CHOLOS COCKSUCKER COCKSUCKERS ... DAGO DAGOES DAGOS DARKEY DARKEYS DARKIE DARKIES DARKY DIKEY DIKIER DIKIEST DOGAN DOGANS DYKEY DYKIER DYKIEST FAGGERIES FAGGERY FAGGIER FAGGIEST FAGGOTIER FAGGOTIEST FAGGOTRIES FAGGOTRY
Okay, on some of these, they have a point lol.
Also, I got curious and scrolled down to "N", and all I can say is holy holy shit man. I get it. People cherry-picked out some stupid decisions, but it honestly makes a lot of sense now that I can see the list. I also understand why they didn't publish the list...
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Unacceptable tbh
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It’s in urban dictionary. It means “to be honest”
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"scores" = groups of 20
so somewhere between 40 and 100 players quit the game because they couldn't say a racial slur. In a game with apparently 2.5 million daily players. That can't be right. In a playerbase that size I'd expect the percentage of bigots with no life to be somewhere in the tens of thousands.
Guess it was a slow news day
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I feel like the amount of bigots in a game that requires knowing lots of words is below the population average.
But not THAT far.
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Well that sure is
<censored>
of them.
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As long as they don't ban antidisestablishmentarianism or pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolvanoconisis I'll be okay.
If I can get just one of those on the board, I automatically win.
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But those are the only ones I know, asswipes.
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