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Looks like you've run into an example of the "Scunthorpe Problem" - the difficult task of getting profanity filters to ignore swear words that are embedded in other, innocent words (such as the name of a place in England).
Looks like you've run into an example of the "Scunthorpe Problem" - the difficult task of getting profanity filters to ignore swear words that are embedded in other, innocent words (such as the name of a place in England).
That reminds me of a teenager who had trouble completing his Xbox Live profile because it had the word "gay" in it. He lived in Fort Gay, West Virginia.
Looks like you've run into an example of the "Scunthorpe Problem" - the difficult task of getting profanity filters to ignore swear words that are embedded in other, innocent words (such as the name of a place in England).
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