Comment to 'Respect, Please.'
Comment to Respect, Please.

  • First, let me assure you that this comes with absolute respect and appreciation of any, every and all races, ethnicities and nationalities. The term "blacklist" has been a long standing convention in software design, and any race-related connotation are completely unintentional. I do understand that once this connection is drawn it may be perceived as reinforcing wrong ideas of racial hierarchy, however. So, respectfully, I personally believe it's one of those things that was not a problem until someone decided to make it a problem, and so now it is indeed a problem. It's unfortunate and wasteful. Words have different meanings in different contexts and forcing unrelated contexts just creates noise. Never in my mind I would think associate a word "blacklist" with a person of dark complexion, or "whitelist" with, say, a caucasian race. It's not something that is supposed to mean "a list of black something..." but rather a "a not-active/allowed/approved list". Much like blackhole is called black because there's no light reflection, which is what we call "black". Personally, I think it was wrong to start calling people black, white, brown in the first place. I know I'm not "white" - I'm a very pale shade of brown. In any case, I don't think it's a feature that defines me, or should be considered as defining for anyone.

    In any case, since this is now an issue, we will schedule a change to "Blocklist" for a future update.

    • Exactly my thoughts. No one can actually be white or black...we shouldn't be defined by colors in the first place: as if I was ask my opinion I would say that the main argument should be about defining races by colors just to prove a damn point is totally offensive as people generally tend to call Africans blacks meanwhile we have races in Africa with similar skin colors with some in Europe and vice versa. Also as we have mixed skin colors within a tribe or race as no race has an entire fixed skin colors of citizens so why generalized them all by just a color.. some damn fallacy! Nonetheless..if any decide to create an issue out it or decide to be dumb about the actual meaning which shouldn't be a problem in the first place if there were no color-defining race, then terms like blacklist especially being used in a social construct or community can actually imply listing people by their colors.. which is not only controversial but offensive in the context of a user who actually agrees with a color-defining race terminology.

      But, then since we cannot ascertain who actually agrees with this color-defining race terminology or not...or who actually agrees to stick with the actual meaning of blacklist or not....or who actually thinks it's controversial in the first place or not, then @Andrey Yasko conclusive view should be the best practice for a social community.👌

      • For AQBSoft/UNA
        A request to rename 'Black Lists' has been denied several months ago.

        In addition and as an emphasis, I still think that this shouldn't be a major issue on whosoever finds 'blacklist' controversal...as Una is built for Independent networks and each network or site owners can change terms in polyglot (frontend studio) or xml file (code base) as they so desire in order to align with their choice of terms in their community. One last thing to note is that, the blacklist mod is a third party mod (even though the members are still part of the Una team) and the developer @AQB Soft clearly named the mod as they deem fit before being made public for sales. This would imply that every buyer clearly is fine with the naming before purchasing....but then again the beauty of Una is that "if you don't like it, then you change and rename for your own network" as deem it without the need to conflict with other buyer's who actually finds it okay with the developers choice of terms.

        • It is a non issue. No one is actually worried about it. I don't even think Kit is actually worried about it, they just want to feel important and this is how they are finding their identity in this world right now. It's trendy to try to find things like this and be the one that changed it.

          This is what we like to call a "first world problem." Life is so good that they have to search for issues and create victimhood. It is a practice for weak, small-minded people.