Opinion/Editorial: Facebook posts must hoe the line Elizabeth Licata of Buffalo, New York, moderates the WNY Gardeners on Facebook. Elizabeth Licata via AP The Daily Progress A garden group administrator is having a whoele peck of trouble with Facebook.At hoeme in western New York, Elizabeth Licata helps to moderate a 7,500-member Facebook gardening group.But Facebook doesn’t approve of a very important gardening tool, the humble hoe. The word, unfortunately, is too closely related to another word that is a particularly derogatory term for a prostitute or a generally promiscuous person.And so “hoe” gets flagged by Facebook’s algorithms as violating the company’s standards.When a group member posted “Push pull hoe!” in response to a question about members’ favorite gardening tools, Facebook stepped in, The Associated Press reports.“We reviewed this comment and found it goes against our standards for harassment and bullying,” said Facebook.OK, granted, “Push pull hoe!” may be a bit loaded with double entendre.Still, Licata says she’ll be darned if she’ll tiptoe around Facebook’s rules by coming up with a euphemism for hoe.Concerned about this problem — which could result in the entire group being suspended for too much hoeing — Licata contacted Facebook to try to get things straightened…
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Opinion/Editorial: Facebook posts must hoe the line
