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by gomerspiles 628 days ago
On the plus side, adding profanity once it is scanned for sounds like another way to weed out some commercial use without explicitly weeding out some commercial use..

That could be handy to an already annoyed maintainer.

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I thought that's why they named those cities with suggestive names, to keep out other (literal) religions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania#In_p...

There are multiple places named Peoria, such as IL, named after a native American group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois

And I suspect that it is not an accident, and that the founders were well-aware that "Peor(ia)" carries negative connotations not only for Jews and Christians (Nm 23-25, Dt 3), but also for anyone who spoke Spanish--it would be like "Let's move to Shitty Heresy-Scandal Town? No thanks!"