Update: yesterday this bot posted a city with a name that was not openly hateful, but... questionable. After enough users responded to a poll expressing a preference for deleting the post, I deleted it and removed the city file from the bot's corpus.
I wrote a script to scan the other 1000s of city names for slurs and other comparable words, and didn't turn up anything significant. I'll always keep an eye out for situations like this, though.
- JP

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