• PlogLod@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    This is a false equivalency. I’ll try to spell it out clearly.

    I’m looking for a character format (a type of alternative text characters) that doesn’t get removed.

    It’s not necessary to know what content is being removed in order to suggest a character format that doesn’t get removed.

    So I don’t know why you’re so focused on trying to determine what the content is when it actually is irrelevant to the question I’m asking.

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      11 months ago

      I’m pretty sure people are focused on what the content is because they have reservations about helping someone bypass filters to post stuff that may be offensive enough to be deleted in the first place.

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        11 months ago

        Nothing I’m saying is offensive, and trust me, a lot of completely unoffensive and harmless comments are blocked, while very offensive content is allowed. It often makes no sense either, and I think the bots are literally broken. A quick Google search about this issue shows some people wanting to post admittedly offensive things, but other people who were trying to make completely innocuous comments and still having them get removed. And it’s really varied and inconsistent what gets deleted. I’m in the latter camp.

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        11 months ago

        Well thank you for understanding what no one else seems to get, at least. I thought I was going insane.

        You don’t physically need to know what the content is, in order to suggest a text character that doesn’t get removed.

        People might have a reason why they don’t want to provide a text character that doesn’t get removed.

        But since I’ve stated that the content is unproblematic in any way, there should be no problem with providing one.

        Hopefully someone is willing and able to help.

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      11 months ago

      Not many possibilities, are there? People substitute letters with number or punctuation that look like the letters, use various homophones, or split up words with punctuation. Maybe you could try translating your comments to Greek or Romanian.

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        11 months ago

        These are creative solutions. I really appreciate you trying to answer when no one else would. But I’m probably not going to change each letter or word individually for everything I say (or translate to another language, which means most people can’t understand it) when I don’t even know what things are going to be removed for seemingly no reason. What I do currently is similar, if I notice that my comment has been removed, I usually try to rephrase it, split it up, and post it in different ways through trial and error.

        Sometimes I’ve noticed if my comment is simply longer than a few sentences (or a small invisible character limit, seemingly), it gets deleted. So truncating what I’m saying can work.

        But all of this is very difficult to do and never works consistently. I still get random comments deleted all the time.

        The desire for a text character format that doesn’t get removed by default is this: I would be able to type normally without having to worry about deletion. I would not say anything bad, because I don’t already. It would just mean that this faulty comment deletion would no longer prevent me from using the comments section.