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Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list (www.news.com.au)

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[-] TheGingerNut 17 points 2 weeks ago

"scores" = groups of 20

so somewhere between 40 and 100 players quit the game because they couldn't say a racial slur. In a game with apparently 2.5 million daily players. That can't be right. In a playerbase that size I'd expect the percentage of bigots with no life to be somewhere in the tens of thousands.

Guess it was a slow news day

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the amount of bigots in a game that requires knowing lots of words is below the population average.

But not THAT far.

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