Seriously though. I get you don’t want sweary words but this is silly now. I tried to write “the base” and it said it wasn’t allowed.
We’ve also had VIgin bank which and I’m sure many others.
Has something changed globally @AlanDoe
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If I had to guess from Googling it seems to be the name of a N*zi hate group.
Would have to assume there’s been some sort of blacklist imported into Discourse, or it’s pulling one in from somewhere. Very unlikely to be manually curated by the Monzo Community team in any way.
I feel like it’s what we often call the Scunthorpe problem, where perfectly clean sentences get flagged for some very blunt pattern match of characters.
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My mum wants to be taken shopping in Penistone at the weekend.
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Scunthorpe has more shops 
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Back in the 80s I used a customer service system where you searched for an account by entering the first five characters of the street name. It always raised a smile if the customer lived on Penistone Road.
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Honestly, it’s laughable — especially considering this is an 18+ community.
I get that excessive swearing or even censored words might not be ideal, but this just feels like overkill and is killing the community.
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True story - I knew a Polish bloke who lived in Penistone called Szemen Plonka.
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I went to the dump it in Penistone twice this morning, then popped in to Tesco.
Don’t park in Tesco on a weekend tho… took me forever to find a space on Saturday 
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Mum wants to be taken to Tesco. She’s broken her shoulder and won’t be driving for months (she’s in her 80s).
Tesco car park in Penistone isn’t the best.
Don’t expect an answer
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There’s already a Mod in the chat ignoring the question.
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The thing is you can’t say Virgìn (the bank) but yesterday @coffeemadman and I could talk about licking white gooey stuff and things squirting everywhere in our hands without the Mary Whitehouse™ filter triggering. It’s ridiculous.
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I think this is to do with the new online safety act that came into effect, which gives online platform operators like Monzo a duty of care and massive fines so we have an over zealous interpretation of the law (imo).
It’s probably discourse’s interpretation that Monzo just turned on.
If it is, the answer is to bring in more mods and not implement a silly sausage filter.
I can still say pènis (but now with more flair) if I want to, or talk about Crème Eggs and Ordo water flossers in slightly suggestive ways.
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If @AlanDoe is around still it would be good to have an understanding on whether they’re even aware of this issue with words being flagged.
Furthermore, we’ve not heard anything following the phantom flagger(s) saga or the topic where we were asked what more we’d like to see on the community. We were told things are in the works, but it’s been radio silence since - while we fast approach May!
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They are because I tagged them 2-3 times. They put an 
reaction on at least one of my questions but ignored them otherwise.
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Almost as frustrating as 
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Maybe a new Monzo paid tier feature will be the ability to talk about Vįrgĩn on here again.
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There’s no law that says people can’t write ‘r*bbish’ or that companies have to prevent it though. If it’s been implemented because of that, someone has just misunderstood the act
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Which is pointless.
Monzo told Jo he couldn’t post anymore but he’s here every day anyway.
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