>[!abstract] >The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning (Wikipedia, 2025). >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): [[Computational linguistics]] >- **West** (similar): — >- **East** (different): — >- **South** (downstream): —