There is a thread in another community regarding some controversies happening in women’s chess. I posted to that thread, recommending a book written by WGM Jennifer Shahade who is a multi-time US women’s chess champion. I also linked to a review of the book, the url of which contained the book title.
The Open Library page about the book is here: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5849601W
it seems that the title, as chosen by the female author with considerable self-awareness, contains a word that is sometimes used as a sexist slur. You can see the title by clicking the link above. Unfortunately some kind of bot censored the title from both the post, and the review link (to chessbase.com) that I had posted. I was able to fool the bot by changing a few characters, but the bot’s very existence is imho in poor taste.
We are adults here, we shouldn’t have robots filtering our language. If we act sexist or abusive then humans should intervene, but not bots. Otherwise we are in an annoying semi-dystopia. The particular post I made, as far as I can tell, is completely legitimate.
I agree with you. And as I mentioned in another thread, I think that the best use for bots is to report potentially troublesome content, so humans review it and act accordingly. Because not even the best bot out there would be accountable for its actions, and when you’re dealing with people you need to be accountable for what you do.
Those intricacies that I mentioned are just digging a bit further into the topic. They’re partially technical, partially human (Linguistics).