The community shared vocabulary is a collaboratively maintained set of terms and definitions used by moderators and administrators to ensure clarity, fairness, and consistency in community governance across diverse platforms.

This list could be used by client applications to either restrict or flag content for human review. Account creation workflows could choose to prohibit these usernames, or limit these usernames from interacting publicly until the account has been approved.

This list can also be considered for hashtag constraints, flagging the use of these words as hashtags.

This list should not be used as a general language suppressant in user-generated content, and should not be used for partial matching.

While it is clear no list can adequately safeguard community members by itself, this list can be regarded as one very basic, early step in a multi-faceted approach. This is intended to be a minimum necessary list.

As with all things, caution is required. Some registrants may have cultural or reappropriative reasons for using these words.

Reserved Words List

abbo
abo
beaner
bestial
bestiality
boong
chink
chinky
coon
cp
darkie
darky
dink
dinks
fudgepacker
gimp
gippo
golliwog
hitler
jap
loli
lolicon
n1gg3r
n1gger
nazi
nigg3r
nigger
niggers
pedo
raghead
retard
spaz
spic
wog
yid

Additional Lists

• badwords.json by dariusk
• List of ethnic slurs (Wikipedia)
• Repository of objectionable keywords and keyword lists (TSPA)

References

• https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/225335/offensive-language-quick-reference-guide.pdf
• https://github.com/topics/profanity-filter
• https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2019/08/21/752330316/a-former-slur-is-reclaimed-and-listeners-have-mixed-feelings
• https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/the-power-of-repurposing-a-slur.html
• https://www.timesofisrael.com/kike-hernandezs-name-can-read-like-an-anti-jewish-slur-heres-how-to-fix-that/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation