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Honestly, the whole Tumblr flagging debacle reminds me of nothing so much as the official White Wolf forums back in the 1990s, whose automatic profanty fiters were so overzealous that they ended up censoring terminology from Some of their own games. (For the uninitiated, the starkest example was probably the fiter that automatically converted “ass” to “butt’, including when the string A-S-S appeared as part of another word. The trouble is that White Wolfs most popular game, Vampire: The Masquerade, included in ts lore a prominent vampire clan called the Assamites, who stock-in-trade was assassination Under the forum’s profanity fier, players were reduced to referring to them as the Buttamites, and their missions as — you guessed it - buttbuttinations.)