German Badwordfilter problems

Niye-INGNiye-ING Posts: 53 ✭✭✭
edited June 2021 in General Discussion

The german wayfarer community has noticed and collected some words which were banned for submission texts recently - for partially non understandable reasons.

I'll try to explain, why they are highly needed for wayspot submissions and should'nt be banned:


ANIMALS

  • Vögeln: yes, it can imply some "carnal" (how to write neutrally, that this is not censored, lol) activity but mainly it's just plural Dativ of "Vogel" (bird) and even part of the official Goethe-Institut-Language-Certificate B1 -> https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Vogel
  • Schlange, Schlangen: which just means "snake" / "snakes" in english. Perhaps forbidden because it can be a swearword for a insidious woman (which is totally outdated and rarely used)? We have many information boards and signs about snakes and no different word to use for this species. "Warteschlange", too is an important word which contains the term Schlange and means queue.


THIRD REICH

Yes - third reich words can be misused. BUT - we have this dark history in Germany and try to remember its cruelties everywhere, so it hopefully will never happen again. There are many information signs, museums, buildings etc. which can just be explained with a special vocabulary, which is not in general forbidden to use in Germany, but important to verbalize those parts of our (horrible) history.

  • Hitler
  • Nazi
  • Holocaust
  • Führer -> even the compounds "Anführer" (leader), "Lokführer" (train driver) and "Führerschein" (driver's license) are forbidden?! "Führer" is a very common part of german noun compounds.
  • Auschwitz - it was the name of the biggest concentration camp. So many innocent people were deported to Auschwitz, so it's very important, that we can retell history. For example, many memorial plates called "Stolperstein" report about individual Jews and other victims of the 3rd Reich and where they died (most of them in Auschwitz) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein


CAN-BE-SWEARWORDS

  • Niger, Nigeria, ...isniger: the n-word is out of discussion, but - why is it impossible to write something about the country Nigeria or the river Niger? And in Germany we have for example the city of Leisnig (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisnig), which inhabitants call themself "Leisniger", which they can't in Wayspots.
  • dick/e/n: the english swearword dick is a normal german word and means "big", bulky or thick. If "dick" can't be released, it would be nice if "Dicke" (which is a physical size) or "dicken" could be. For example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicke


CAN-BE-"CARNAL"


OTHERS


Maybe @NianticGray is the right adressee for this one? Thanks a lot in advance!

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