"Controlled" is a banned word in Nikon forum?

I recently tried to write a post in the Nikon forum explaining

how a body controlled the lens aperture. My post was rejected,

because a substring of "controlled" is the word "T-R-O-L-L", a

censored word in that forum.

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If you must ban the word, can you please allow it if it's

only an interior part of another completely unrelated, innocent word?

"Troll" is banned in the Nikon forum? I'm not one of the people who have hopped on the "Photo.net is a fascist bunch of censors" bandwagon (see, e.g., a couple recent POW discussions (though such comments have probably been deleted...)), but this seems a little overboard.

I understand the rationale behind censoring offensive language, like curse words, but if "troll" is banned, why not also ban "jerk," "idiot," "dummy," or "fool"? At some point, if you want to have free discussion, you have to admit some possibility that someone will be insulted, or someone will say something stupid, or call someone a "troll." The tool that stamps out all of that is way too blunt.

Sounds like a more careful use of regular expressions is called for, at the least, and perhaps a re-think of policy.

This reminds me of the time my ex-boss called me into his office and asked me about "questionable" web sites I had been perusing at work. It turns out I had been flagged because I had downloaded the web server log analyzer "analog" and the URL contained the substring "anal".

Seems Doug, the moderator of that forum, has had a bit of a problem recently with people labeling a question a "troll". Usually that serves notice to others that the question is bogus and to the person who wrote it that we are on to them. <p>

I didn't follow that thread, but in this case the young lad who started the thread apparently wasn't happy with what was said and signed up using a variation of the name of one of our members and posted "on his behalf". All hell broke loose with the complaints spilling out into the general forum. <p>

Banning the word "troll" because of this is a bit extreme considering that the problem was really caused by a juvenile out to cause trouble.