Not it's not. As someone who speaks English as a second language, the first time I read "whitelist/blacklist", I simply looked them up in a translation dictionary and immediately understood what they mean. Those are actual words with definitions spanning centuries.
There was a reddit outage that occurred due to the madness around "inclusive language" and removing the word "master": https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_brok...
You don’t have to even look up denylist in the dictionary once. Seems better to me.
No it's not.
>it may not yet have been picked up by dictionaries, which are trailing catalogs of usage, but that doesn't make it “not a word”.
It's not picked up by dictionaries because it's not a word. Its small usage by activist does not make it a word.
NIST in the US and the National Cyber Security Center in the UK, as well as much of the industry, use the term, but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, a word in use.
In the wake of the "Summer of Love", some ideologues at NIST decided to jump on the band wagon and created an internal memo about "inclusive language". They ironically did not define the new terms, did not include them in their definition documentation, and was for internal use only as a guide, not requirements.
>but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, a word in use.
but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, not a word.
Neat, but denylist isn't a word. Thank you for proving my point.
>Unless someone is trying to be particularly daft, it’s pretty straightforward to put them together and grok a mean.
Except it's not, especially for those who are not as privileged and learn English as a second language. "Broad" and "way" are two words that when put together mean something very different. QED.
>Much better than blacklist.
Not at all, since it's not a word.
>If you didn’t have a dictionary, you would never know.
Thank God the word predates computers and we all know what it means.
Lemmings and all. It was dumb then, it's dumb now. Lots of repos still use master.
>You don’t have to even look up denylist in the dictionary once.
Sure you do, and it's not there. It's not clear what a denylist is, nor what a blocklist is. Words have meaning.