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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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.
There’s already a Mod in the chat ignoring the question.
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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 @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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Almost as frustrating as 
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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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The law says there can’t be ‘harmful’ content where children have access, there are under 18s on here and I think the logic here is that ‘abusive’ words like stup1d and rubb1sh can be harmful to children. I’m not saying I agree but that’s my understanding for the changes on this forum. I believe it was mentioned once by someone else but I can’t remember if it was a staff member.
Who is Jo? What happened, I’ve not been so active here recently so I’m out of the loop.
It’s still open for anyone to read though.
Plus, there is no age verification processes to ascertain that people reading and contributing are in fact over 18.
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No but the moderators and admin can add words to the list.
The forum child. He was told he can’t post again until he’s 18, but he’s still active. So it achieved nothing really.
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Right but that’s my point, these words are not abusive. They are used on cbeebies and in books used on the national curriculum to teach five year olds to read. They’ve misunderstood the act of they think it somehow bans exposing children to the word ‘r*bbish’
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As is often the case.
Health and safety is a great example of companies not understanding the legislation and putting in extreme rules that go far beyond the aim of the initial legislation.
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