Yep. I’ve had several posts like that held for moderator review this last week. They were approved as the usage in the linked stories wasn’t outside the guidelines
And when I have once or twice posted something that wasn’t within the guidelines a while ago, it was deleted. I wasn’t back here trying to rules lawyer the issue.
Dems da rules. I put on my big girl skirt.
I’m not “trying to rules lawyer the issue”. I am just completely mystified as to why what seem like entirely innocent words contained among them some word or sequence of words that were at risk of offending. I think the only time it happened to me before (IIRC) was when I used the ‘mythical creature under a bridge’ word (in an entirely innocent manner) and on that occasion I grokked it immediately.
Hey-ho. I was not anticipating it to raise so much comment. It’s water under the bridge down the river, AFAIAC.
Edited to ensure the ‘under the bridge’ reference wasn’t misconstrued. It was entirely innocent. 
I guess it’s great then that you don’t have a problem.
Understanding the rules well enough to reason within them invites contempt for the proper order of things.
The word for the sub-bridge-dweller does seem to be the worst word in the mods’ vocabulary (other than ■■■■■, of course). I think that’s odd, since no such creature (or user emulating one) would name themselves thusly in a post. In fact, it makes it harder for regular users to identify such behavior without contortions. Perhaps that’s by design, to help avoid hot-headed accusations of under-bridge habitation.
Pretty sure that’s the idea. Maybe an attempt to provide some de-escalation opportunity.
Calling out people for being an… under bridge dweller … likely leads to more of a problem than simply flagging the post and letting the moderation team / system do its magic.
In response to this thread:
I quoted the ‘missed out’ verses of Bowie’s classic ‘Time’. Couldn’t post until I tweaked a word synonymous with ‘courtesan’, I did consider replacing it with Pratchett’s much more accurate ‘Lady of Negotiable Affection’ but that ruined how the lyrics scanned .
To be clear, I concur with this approach - as with the under-bridge dweller reference, it is good to make people think about what they are saying - and how they are saying it.
Yours, damply, PPK.
You mean moist? I can type that word here all day long and it doesn’t get blocked.
coincidentally, i got a post caught up while talking about streetcars the other day. either i spelled it wrong or the other t word for tram is too underbridge
it just took a second to realize what was going on, delete, and repost. no biggie. 
I tried that word spelled both correctly and incorrectly, and it got blocked each time. WTAF? It’s a word, and not an uncommon one either. I could have sworn there were bbs threads about the _______ problem before, so when did this happen?
I guess we’ll have to eat our damp cake while we discuss the Tram Car Problem.
For heaven’s sake, I can’t even use the emoji for it, that’s supplied to us in the emoji list here, without it being held! 
For the emoji, they use the “t” word spelled with “ey”, plus the word “bus”. I would have thought that wouldn’t get held up. Especially with the colons before and after. 
Any word that contains the blocked word is also blocked, but should pass once admin sees that you wrote trolley.
What if I write about antidisestablishmentrolleyianism?
Edit: it was accepted 
Controller
EtA: test passed
Coner
Test passed
troll
Wow. Apparently that passes but the tram car thing doesn’t pass if I write it normally 
Perhaps it’s to avoid endless discussions of Straßenbahnen.
it’s hard, i think, for people to guess all the edge cases of word bans. i get though that the bbs software writers and boingboing have to try. ultimately, it improves the quality of the bbs and this space we share
the biggest thing i think is just what duketrout said:
the delay in posting is annoying, but it’s a balance.
hmmm …unless this is why public transport in the states is so far behind the times 
My earlier (now below) post is held for moderation, even though it’s just an image that doesn’t even contain the t-word. I thought it was because the file name included that word, but I renamed it as a tram and it is still held.
I think the mods are telling me my attempts to be clever have failed.
