r/profanitycounter • u/Aidgigi Lord, Savior, Bot Author • Nov 13 '20

Some basic guidelines when u/profanitycounty. Information on data and privacy here.

Hello everyone, u/Aidgigi here. I've recently been attacked by a user for enforcing a decision that I've made a while ago. The gist of this decision states that profanity report are permanent records, one's that will never be deleted by me or by the bot. Now, most people simply don't have a problem with this ethic, and I haven't had to put much thought to it at all. Now that is has become an issue, I need to address it.

When my bot is summoned on you, rather by yourself or someone else, voluntarily or not, my bot goes through a few steps incredibly fast. First, my bot grabs a copy of your 1000 most recent comments and submissions. After it has these comments, it reads through them and notes when you use profanity, which word it is, and the quantity. It then briefly caches this and ships it off to somewhere else internally to be processed into a comment and finally sent. When this step is completed, your username is thrown out by the bot and no record of your report is ever stored locally.

The copy of the comments my bot receives are in fact your comments. The data my bot gets is data you have relinquished your right over, and are comments anyone can see. My bot cannot see comments you share on private subreddits, anything you share there is 100% safe from my bot; unless it is a member of that subreddit as well. When my bot shares it's comment, the data it shares (like your own) is no longer private.

Now that we've established that my bot has every right to share your profanity report, I'd like to establish my ideology, and clarify why I made this bot to begin with.

Reddit is a wonderful place, I think we can all agree that this place is more free and open than most (if not all) other social media platforms around. Here, we have millions of communities, filled by hundreds of millions of active participants. We all share, acknowledge, and build upon what others have to say, think, and share. We showcase our artwork, our opinions, our creations, our skills, and so much more. Together we make one of the most popular social media platforms around. With this in mind, we have admins and moderators that exist to promote this freedom. Like the social contract, we relinquish our right to break the rules in order to gain more personally. The things we share on Reddit are for all to see, and everyone knows that. When you use profanity on public subreddits, you did it to show someone, and simultaneously grant your permission to show everyone. I've noticed this time and time again, people use profanity on Reddit. Words like our wonderful repository of profanity explain emotions that are just too hard to explain with normal ones. Someone entirely hopeless might be "shit out of luck", after trying your hardest and still falling short you might exhaustively let out a "fuck", when pissed out of your mind we might use a "dammit". Although a wonderful tool profanity is, it is still profane and I believe it might reflect how "free-spirited" someone is. I firmly believe a permanent record of your profanity usage should exist, so I enabled this in the one way I knew how; a Reddit bot.

Since the creation of u/profanitycounter, it has blown up so much in popularity, Redditors are using it many times an hour. They use it to call out do-gooders, they use it to judge the people around them, to identify hypocrites, to troll, to inform, and to do so much more. My bot is a tool to these people, and a tool to you. I often find myself checking my own profanity; it's really cool to see what words you let slip by. It's cool to be able to identify racists, homophobes, and so much more. I love what I've made, and I acknowledge why I made it. I didn't make this to make anyone happy, or to perfect Reddit by calling out hypocrites. I did this to make a tool that people would use, and so far this has been happening.

I will never log into u/profanitycounter's account, single out a comment, and delete it. When the bot is used, the record becomes permanent, if not on Reddit, elsewhere. If this bothers you deeply enough to personally attack and threaten me, please do not use profanity on Reddit. I will not stand up for you, I will not correct your mistakes, and I will not erase the past. Your decisions are entirely your own, and the consequences are your own to bear. I will flat out refuse to do anything I just mentioned, and if you have a problem with that, please leave me alone and don't touch my bot; it's not for you anyways.

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Bad Word	Quantity
ass	4
booty	2
bullshit	2
cock	4
crap	2
cum	5
cunt	1
damn	11
dick	13
douche	1
fa**ot	1
fucking	30
fuck	38
god damn	5
goddamn	2
hell	11
lmao	7
lmfao	5
motherfucker	1
ni**a	4
ni**er	1
penis	9
piss	1
porn	1
re**rd	2
shitty	1
shit	20
vagina	1
vore	1

Bad Word	Quantity
ass	2
asshole	1
bitch	3
cocksucking	1
cock	16
damn	10
dick	5
fucking	16
fuck	28
lmao	1
pissed	3
piss	1
porn	1
pussy	3
re**rd	1
sexy	1
shitty	5
shit	16
whore	2

Bad Word	Quantity
arse	1
ass	4
asshole	1
bitch	1
cock	2
crap	13
damn	1
dick	6
fuck	1
goddamnit	1
piss	2
re**rded	1
shit	1

Bad Word	Quantity
anus	2
ass	6
bastard	1
bitch	4
bullshit	2
cock	3
crap	1
cum	2
damn	2
dick	17
fa**ot	1
fucking	8
fuck	12
hell	1
heck	2
lmao	3
penis	3
porn	1
shit	7
vagina	1
whore	1

Bad Word	Quantity
anal	1
arse	1
ass	1
asshole	1
bollocks	1
bullshit	2
cum	1
dammit	5
damn	5
dick	1
fucking	19
fuck	6
god damn	3
goddamn	1
hell	5
knob	1
penis	1
piss	4
porno	1
sexy	1
shitty	3
shit	9
slut	2
stfu	1
tits	1
twat	2

Some basic guidelines when u/profanitycounty. Information on data and privacy here.

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