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Nice; sort of a programming complement to Shutterstock's _List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words_[0]. So helpful to have a bunch of minds working on useful lists like this. Good to see that GitHub passes this test!

[0] https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...



I worked on a swear filter at a previous job. Not quite sure how this list could benefit anyone really unless you are matching a whole string e.g. title of a photo rather than words in the title of a photo.

There are so many creative ways to get around swearing. Replace letters with numbers, drop consonants and vowels. And you almost always need to check for word boundaries otherwise somebody from Scunthorpe might be upset you banned them. And then there are cases where word boundaries aren't enough. Good luck ;-)


I doubt the value of this repository. The first naughty French word "allumé" can't be considered naughty, dirty, or bad, like, at all. And many others are not naughty under too many circumstances...

Except very few swear words, word filtering is pretty much useless.


Alternative source: list of reddit usernames...




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