[Talk-GB] Meta/Facebook #ProfanityCleanup

[Chris Hodges]

I can see the potential for valid edits including profanity in some fields:

* Near me "loc_name=dog shit alley" would be valid, but strangely enough 
it doesn't appear in a citable source; adding it would be misguided 
though probably well-intentioned.

* Or I'm sure many of us have thought WTF? when surveying for tags (like 
the shop at Bristol Parkway station which is genuinely called "Shop").  
A few may have actually expressed such incredulity in a rather colourful 
way, or made some similar comment (perhaps more likelywhen summarising 
edits rather than in actual tags).

* Then there are typos etc., and cases of suggestive brand names being 
spelt out in full.

So while all instances of apparent profanity may be worthy of checking, 
they don't fall into a binary of entertaining place names or vandalism.

Chris


On 11/01/2023 15:36, David Woolley wrote:
> On 11/01/2023 14:17, Tony Shield wrote:
>> The three examples they give are not unreasonable, however in my 
>> opinion those issues were vandalism not profanity.
>>
>
> I would have thought that all valid cases for change would fall into 
> other categories, such as vandalism.  Meta's profanity detector may be 
> a way of detecting other problems, but it should be the other problem 
> that gets actioned and tagged.
>
> I suppose profanity could be an issue in its own right in 
> descriptions, but they are not checking those.
>
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