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I see “blocklist” becoming more popular in programming. But it just occurred to me how bizarre and out of place it would be if the parent comment said “a blocklisted word”.

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Plenty of people now say allowlist and denylist instead of whitelist and blacklist.

Goodlist and ungoodlist.

Blocklist for me is a list of blocks, like the one you gather with badblocks(8) and then pass to fsck(8).

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