[gs17]

I really hate this change. It makes sense to ban offensive words as the actual answers, but usually no one else sees your guesses (unless you share them specifically, but usually it's just the colors) and if you typed the word in, it's hard to justify being offended by it being accepted as a guess.

[jaclaz]

Personally I don't see a reason to ban any given word, if it is a word and it is in a (accepted/common) dictionary it means that the word actually exists, that is (or has been) used, that people (at least some) know its meaning, etc.

On the contrary, when you ban some words, they form a "list of banned words", and you actually focus the attention on everyone of them.

Think of all the old manuals using the old IDE/ATA concept of Master/Slave (and later Cable Select).

How many people were forever traumatized by reading those?

[captainredbeard]

> How many people were forever traumatized by reading those?

Zero. This is all a made up problem.