[Talk-GB] Meta/Facebook #ProfanityCleanup

[Mark Goodge]

On 11/01/2023 15:36, David Woolley wrote:

> 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 do wonder if it might simply be an unintended side effect of automated 
systems. If something is flagged for profanity, among other issues, then 
when it's edited the profanity tag will show as being resolved even 
though the true reason for the edit was to fix some other (and entirely 
genuine) problem.

The Dyke/Dike typo mentioned in the original post is a good example of 
that; in that instance the correct local spelling is the less common 
one, but fixing it will also cause it to cease being flagged as a 
profanity. I'm a bit less sure about Pussy Lane, but I'm willing to 
assume good faith on the part of the editor as there doesn't appear to 
be any current open data source for that name (and non-open sources 
disagree: OS MasterMap calls it Pussy Lane but it's just "Access Road to 
rear of premises in Westerley Street" in the NSG).

Mark