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Many many years ago I wrote a sign up form (an app now I suppose) for a UK ISP, and we, I cannot remember who wanted the feature, write a simple blacklist of wo
by lifeisstillgood 7y ago
Many many years ago I wrote a sign up form (an app now I suppose) for a UK ISP, and we, I cannot remember who wanted the feature, write a simple blacklist of words that users should not be allowed to put in their addresses, and of course we whitelisted Scunthorpe (as well as several other rude placenames in the UK post office address file)
Just weird how the same things come round and round.
- fit2rule 7y agoI cut my teeth as a junior dev in the 80's writing soundex filters for the same purpose, which was repurposed to do auto correction of street names after I got it working on swear words... always amuses me to see so much effort put into such things even still today (as I struggle with autocorrect while typing one-handed due to a broken arm...)
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoIt is, I think, based around the need to understand the context to understand if it is a swear word, part of "reasonable" conversation or unwanted trolling. And we are still a long way from AI so a long way from a generic solution - as such everyone must roll their own for their specific needs and trade offs