"Marc A. Pelletier" <[email protected]> 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 loosing proposition; even > trying to filter for /actual/ cuss words is hard enough (because the > list of word/fragments someone *might* find offensive is boundless); if > we try to also block misspelling, lookalikes or cognates we might as > well block /^[a-z]*$/. Not only that, the selection of blacklisted words may be of- fensive itself. For example, https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmEdit/master/blacklist protects the Christian god with two entries, while Allah is up for ridicule. And it might even require Jews to type in the tetragrammaton and thus effectively ban them from a site. IMHO if someone is offended by a captcha, they should click on reload. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
