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There's precious little value and plenty of potential harm from scattering vulgar language across the sidebars of the entire network. Not only does it irritate people, the titles also get indexed in search results as part of the pages they're linked from - we've gotten complaints from folks who found their questions listed in search results for some fairly shocking phrases due to this.

Under normal circumstances, it's best to either close or edit questions that contain vulgar language. However, we do block a range of vulgar terms from appearing in the network-wide "hot" list as a fall-back in cases where there's a dispute or the post is simply overlooked.

This isn't really suitable for Brainfuck questions though. This language is a legitimate topic for multiple sites within the network; there have been and will continue to be good questions on the topic that are worth featuring network-wide, and penalizing them purely due to the naming choice of the language designer isn't appropriate.

The uneasy consensus on Stack Overflow for the past 6 years has been that BF questions are allowed, but the term "Brainfuck" should be munged or edited out of titles. This makes everyone equally unhappy, so I consider it an effective compromise - and I'm making it official: starting today (Nov. 24, 2015), the term "brainfuck" is blacklisted in titles only network-wide, with a message explaining why:

There's precious little value and plenty of potential harm from scattering vulgar language across the sidebars of the entire network. Not only does it irritate people, the titles also get indexed in search results as part of the pages they're linked from - we've gotten complaints from folks who found their questions listed in search results for some fairly shocking phrases due to this.

Under normal circumstances, it's best to either close or edit questions that contain vulgar language. However, we do block a range of vulgar terms from appearing in the network-wide "hot" list as a fall-back in cases where there's a dispute or the post is simply overlooked.

This isn't really suitable for Brainfuck questions though. This language is a legitimate topic for multiple sites within the network; there have been and will continue to be good questions on the topic that are worth featuring network-wide, and penalizing them purely due to the naming choice of the language designer isn't appropriate.

The uneasy consensus on Stack Overflow for the past 6 years has been that BF questions are allowed, but the term "Brainfuck" should be munged or edited out of titles. This makes everyone equally unhappy, so I consider it an effective compromise - and I'm making it official: starting today (Nov. 24, 2015), the term "brainfuck" is blacklisted in titles only network-wide, with a message explaining why:

There's precious little value and plenty of potential harm from scattering vulgar language across the sidebars of the entire network. Not only does it irritate people, the titles also get indexed in search results as part of the pages they're linked from - we've gotten complaints from folks who found their questions listed in search results for some fairly shocking phrases due to this.

Under normal circumstances, it's best to either close or edit questions that contain vulgar language. However, we do block a range of vulgar terms from appearing in the network-wide "hot" list as a fall-back in cases where there's a dispute or the post is simply overlooked.

This isn't really suitable for Brainfuck questions though. This language is a legitimate topic for multiple sites within the network; there have been and will continue to be good questions on the topic that are worth featuring network-wide, and penalizing them purely due to the naming choice of the language designer isn't appropriate.

The uneasy consensus on Stack Overflow for the past 6 years has been that BF questions are allowed, but the term "Brainfuck" should be munged or edited out of titles. This makes everyone equally unhappy, so I consider it an effective compromise - and I'm making it official: starting today (Nov. 24, 2015), the term "brainfuck" is blacklisted in titles only network-wide, with a message explaining why:

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There's precious little value and plenty of potential harm from scattering vulgar language across the sidebars of the entire network. Not only does it irritate people, the titles also get indexed in search results as part of the pages they're linked from - we've gotten complaints from folks who found their questions listed in search results for some fairly shocking phrases due to this.

Under normal circumstances, it's best to either close or edit questions that contain vulgar language. However, we do block a range of vulgar terms from appearing in the network-wide "hot" list as a fall-back in cases where there's a dispute or the post is simply overlooked.

This isn't really suitable for Brainfuck questions though. This language is a legitimate topic for multiple sites within the network; there have been and will continue to be good questions on the topic that are worth featuring network-wide, and penalizing them purely due to the naming choice of the language designer isn't appropriate.

The uneasy consensus on Stack Overflow for the past 6 years has been that BF questions are allowed, but the term "Brainfuck" should be munged or edited out of titles. This makes everyone equally unhappy, so I consider it an effective compromise - and I'm making it official: starting today (Nov. 24, 2015), the term "brainfuck" is blacklisted in titles only network-wide, with a message explaining why:

There's precious little value and plenty of potential harm from scattering vulgar language across the sidebars of the entire network.

Normally, I'd recommend either editing or just closing questions that suffer from this problem. But BF, while unfortunately named, is a legit topic for some sites.

That still doesn't mean we have to feature them network-wide. Henceforth, titles containing fuck will be excluded.

There's precious little value and plenty of potential harm from scattering vulgar language across the sidebars of the entire network. Not only does it irritate people, the titles also get indexed in search results as part of the pages they're linked from - we've gotten complaints from folks who found their questions listed in search results for some fairly shocking phrases due to this.

Under normal circumstances, it's best to either close or edit questions that contain vulgar language. However, we do block a range of vulgar terms from appearing in the network-wide "hot" list as a fall-back in cases where there's a dispute or the post is simply overlooked.

This isn't really suitable for Brainfuck questions though. This language is a legitimate topic for multiple sites within the network; there have been and will continue to be good questions on the topic that are worth featuring network-wide, and penalizing them purely due to the naming choice of the language designer isn't appropriate.

The uneasy consensus on Stack Overflow for the past 6 years has been that BF questions are allowed, but the term "Brainfuck" should be munged or edited out of titles. This makes everyone equally unhappy, so I consider it an effective compromise - and I'm making it official: starting today (Nov. 24, 2015), the term "brainfuck" is blacklisted in titles only network-wide, with a message explaining why:

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