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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

There is a thread in another community regarding some controversies happening in women's chess. I posted to that thread, recommending a book written by WGM Jennifer Shahade who is a multi-time US women's chess champion. I also linked to a review of the book, the url of which contained the book title.

The Open Library page about the book is here: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5849601W

it seems that the title, as chosen by the female author with considerable self-awareness, contains a word that is sometimes used as a sexist slur. You can see the title by clicking the link above. Unfortunately some kind of bot censored the title from both the post, and the review link (to chessbase.com) that I had posted. I was able to fool the bot by changing a few characters, but the bot's very existence is imho in poor taste.

We are adults here, we shouldn't have robots filtering our language. If we act sexist or abusive then humans should intervene, but not bots. Otherwise we are in an annoying semi-dystopia. The particular post I made, as far as I can tell, is completely legitimate.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

It is not a bot that censored your post but the lemmy.ml server itself. For some reason lemmy.ml (and I think lemmy.world) filter some words from posts. If you don't like that you'll have to change to another instance.

I am using feddit.de and I can write "chess bitch" if I want.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

This is the support community and I'm requesting that the software be fixed.

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