Ordinary technical or product text is flagged as inappropriate language
What you are seeing
Ordinary technical or product text is flagged as inappropriate language.
#Why it happens
The built-in list of roughly 300 terms is matched as whole words, and includes common words such as "crap", "damn", "anal", "cracker" and "hoe". The list cannot be edited or narrowed, and custom word lists have no screen and no effect on detection.
#What to do
Dismiss the finding on the pages affected, or lower the rule to Info. If the false positives are widespread the only remedy is to set the rule to Off.
#A few things that catch people out
The built-in profanity list cannot be edited or narrowed, and word-boundary matching means common words such as "crap", "damn", "anal", "cracker", "hoe" and "lmao" flag ordinary technical or product text.
Capitalization checking is a simplified heuristic that does not understand proper nouns, so headings containing names or product terms can be flagged and the auto-fix will lowercase them.
#Related
Headings containing product names or people's names are flagged by Heading capitalization, and the f
The capitalization check is a simplified heuristic that does not recognise proper nouns.
You want a rule to keep running but stop showing up prominently
The single control both enables the rule and sets its severity. There is no separate "enab
Everything else
The rest of this family.
Found it? Good.
