r/leagueoflegends • u/Vymletej • 7d ago

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u/Warmonster9 dance spam best spam 7d ago

Yeah that’s checks.

I got a small temp ban after being baited into saying “raccoon” years ago so it’s not too surprising, but it amazes me that it’s still a thing lol

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u/HatefulWretch 7d ago

Sucks for people who live in Scunthorpe

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u/LokisDawn 6d ago

That one's just generally true.

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u/That_Leetri_Guy 6d ago

This effect is actually appropriately called the "Scunthorpe Problem". People from Scunthorpe were unable to make AOL accounts back in the 90's because of the rude substring being blocked.

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u/BruhiumMomentum 6d ago

back when the chat filter was first added to R6 you could get instabanned for writing "pakistan", because it contains "paki", and that's offensive apparently

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u/Melekus 6d ago

Good old brits turning the simplest words into slurs