Hi there, I was trying to link an article written by Julia Serano in 2011:

https://juliaserano/.blog[no space]spot[dot]com/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html

(sorry, it replaces it here with removed as well, imagine there is no space and make the dot into . in your mind I guess)

When I click Save, it replaces blog[no space]spot[dot]com with *removed*:

https://juliaserano.*removed*/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html

Any idea what’s going on?

EDIT: when I tried to submit the title of this post as blog[no space]spot[dot]com becomes *removed* I couldn’t submit and I got a warning message saying “slurs” - I’m not familiar with blog spot dot com being a slur …

  • Nothing4You@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    slur filters are a commonly used method on lemmy to deal with certain types of spam.

    there are lots of spammers posting links to blog spot subdomains all the time, i think there were at least two new ones just today.

    unfortunately, the amount of malicious links (random spam posts) to blog spot significantly outranks the amount of legitimate links, which is likely why this was added to blahaj’s slur filter.

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      ohhh, interesting - I wouldn’t have expected that.

      In my particular case, I just used archive.is to get a link that doesn’t link to blogspot dot com as a workaround, so there is no immediate need on my end - was more curious than anything else.