WARNING: This post contains words which many people may find disturbing or offensive. People who read this post aloud may find random strangers shoving bars of soap in their mouths. Printing it out from work computers is not recommended.

As of this writing, a long list of interst terms, and all derivations of them, cannot be searched on LiveJournal. They fall into three identifiable categories:

( Save the Children! )
Because of this set, the following terms are unsearchable:
asexual motherhood, baby grapes, baby skinks, baby talcum powder, children's choral music, circumcising little boys, draper family, ecumenical schools, family of coral, family morals, family morality, jaunty drapes, moral brotherhood, porgy's grandma, scumbag dads, spanking in schools, stripping the gauntlet, sussex county virginia, unisex baby clothes, young grapefruit, young mayoral candidates.

( Not blocked: )

( No Bigots Allowed )

ETA: Cracker and spic have been removed from the blocked search term list.

( Godwin's Killfile )

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This changelog entry from June 22, 2007 gives the source code for the blockage:

-- new hook to allow interests to be ignored in search situations + if (LJ::run_hook("interest_search_ignore", query => $GET{int_like} || $FORM{int_like})) { + return $ad . "Sorry, we're unable to help you find users matching the interests you've provided."; + }

Emphasis added; details on the hook "interest_search_ignore" are not available.


(Updates to this list may be at http://community.livejournal.com/ljspeaks/801.html, not here.)

Suggest new interests for me.

I only add unsearchable interests that have at least other journal carrying them. (And I'm not gonna stop you from adding it to your own journal, and then suggesting it... but that's kinda cheating. Kinda. Sorta. Well, anyway, I'm not recommending adding "young skinks" or "family acumen" or "child coral music" or "wharfage rates" or "twopenny theatre" to your interests.)