New Google tool aims to fight trolls

I'm of the belief that improving the level of discourse on the Internet is a fool's errand, but good for them for trying:

Google fights online trolls with new tool

And, in case anyone was wondering:

The n-word was rated as 82 percent toxic; c---, a term for women’s genitalia, was 77 percent toxic; k---, a derogatory word for a Jewish person, was 39 percent toxic; and c----, a slur for a Chinese person, was 32 percent toxic. If you add the phrase “you are a” to any of those words, the toxicity score goes up.

 

Jeff just ran to his computer and doesn't know why.

 

Kike kind of faded away over the last few decades. I'm more impressed when someone DOES use it.

 

If you can't troll better than that, you should be zapped from social media.

 

Vin Scully probably used it quite a bit over the last couple of seasons.

 

pussycat

 

Hmm. I figured someone here would have created a sentence with all four words by now.

 

They already track everything, guess why not try to make themselves look good.

 

They're bigger than US Steel.

 

Years ago, we had a whole list of words that were filtered out of our comments system. It was amusing how extensive management went with it. Made sure to add in multiple variations of words (ex. b!tch for bitch). The sheet had to be a couple pages long.

 

I was trying to create a whole list of words like that for use while driving. Commuting back and forth from DC to Norfolk, and those fucking I-64 and I-95 corridors, I knew I had to extend my vocabulary.