On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de
wrote:
I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they
just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they
just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or CAPTMCA
soon enough.
There are likely a number of strings that should be
Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got this string for their
captcha on en.wikipedia nigerblew
http://snag.gy/JpSUR.jpg
Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think
it's reasonable to try and avoid things close to the two-g version of that
word; nobody's
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:05 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:
Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got this string for their
captcha on en.wikipedia nigerblew
http://snag.gy/JpSUR.jpg
Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think
it's
There's a blacklist that has been included with FancyCaptcha for a few
months, although I don't know whether it's the same as the one the WMF uses.
See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21025 and the associated
patches.
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Wikitech-l
It's a CAPTCHA, not an article or piece of actual content. If people are
actually getting offended by randomly generated CAPTCHAs I think they need
to find something more worthwhile to complain about.
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Tyler Romeo
On Jan 1, 2014 12:27 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a
Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some
regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator...
I don't personally care, you don't, but if we offend people needlessly it's
an oops. We need some elements of the site to meet Lowest Common
Denominator
On 01/01/2014 12:34 AM, George Herbert wrote:
Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some
regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator...
Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead.
I agree it's a little bit silly, and also a
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead.
The Scunthorpe problem is not actually a problem here, because we're just
limiting the CAPTCHAs we serve to users, not filtering their input.
Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some
regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator...
Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead.
I agree it's a little bit silly, and also a
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.dewrote:
Not only that, the selection of blacklisted words may be of-
fensive itself.
That doesn't seem like a problem, since the list isn't visible in the user
interface. Users will not be complaining that they aren't
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