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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Most notably, the programmers put in a filter which turned, for instance, a certain word into "maid" -- a nominally safe word. But after a while, they started punishing people for saying "maid", following the logic that they might have said a word that was turned into "maid" rather than just, y'know, saying "maid", so they should be treated exactly as though they'd typed profanity -- even if they hadn't, and had just used a word the programmers had deemed safe. Yes, they made "maid", "dog", and a few other words into "bad" words because they might be program substitutions for other words.
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Reminds me of a story that came out a few years back:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=
(Google link pulls up lots of reports on it.)