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It also mostly checks for English naughty words and not much else. People can have fun in lots of other languages, so it would seem this is a small sample.
by mc32 5y ago
It also mostly checks for English naughty words and not much else. People can have fun in lots of other languages, so it would seem this is a small sample.
- formerly_proven 5y agoBunch of ineffective entries too, all patterns containing underscores won't ever match.
- talkin 5y agoUnderscore matches any single char, so those patterns work fine. It’s an efficient way to match any small separator, like space, dashes, etc.
- formerly_proven 5y agoI didn't know _ is a metachar in LIKE expressions, thanks! Not the first time its syntax caught me off-guard.
- CRConrad 5y agoIt only has two, doesn't it? Underscore for "any single character", and percent for "any string of characters", AFAIK.
- Igelau 5y agoSome near the end looked like they might be in another language, but I won't be the one to find out. It used to be "if I search for this term, am I accidentally going to wind up getting goatse or something?" The good old days. Now it's "if I search for this term, is the FBI going to kick my door in?"
- fsckboy 5y agoI was pedantic about it in the good old days too, it's goatse.cx and not goatse you need the domain to make the goat-sex joke work
- User23 5y agoThere was a lot more horrifying stuff on that site besides hello.jpg, but most everyone recoiled in horror before they saw anything else.
- nazgulsenpai 5y agoWoah, 20+ years later and I literally had no idea until now. Learn something new every day, but somehow this one is shocking because of how obvious it is and how long it took :)
- Semaphor 5y agoThere are a few German words in the lists.
- AmericanChopper 5y agoAnd specifically Italian blasphemy for some reason…
- cratermoon 5y agoOne word, that starts with V, and isn't Vagina.
- Agentlien 5y agoAfter looking through it quickly it seems to do the same as most profanity checks with Dutch: it doesn't block "kut" (a crude word for female genitalia) but it does block "kunt" (third person form of "can")
- mgdlbp 5y agoHere's one that does/doesn't! https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Filter/10 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Filter/10
- Agentlien 5y agoUnfortunately it seems I don't have access to that page. Do I need to be a Wikipedia editor?
- mgdlbp 5y agoAh, that's right—need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once? That's what the linked page says (I'm not familiar with Dutch Wikipedia specifics), but that seems like such a strange statistic to track instead of minimum edit count. So weird that I looked up how to configure MediaWiki autoconfirm requirements. They probably mean a minimum of one edit. Auto-confirmation considers only age and edit count, and I don't see why clicking 'Edit' is so meaningful a condition to warrant developing an extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Autoconfirmed_users https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Autoconfirmed_users Searching about extensions did lead to discovering an obscure feature: there's now a built-in URL shortener: https://w.wiki/Q8 https://w.wiki/Q8 Edit: interestingly, the single-character ones seem to have been pre-planned: https://w.wiki/e https://w.wiki/e, https://w.wiki/E https://w.wiki/E, https://w.wiki/4 https://w.wiki/4
- CRConrad 5y ago> need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once In the Dutch WP? Because otherwise I should qualify.
- unnouinceput 5y agoYou can't do all of them. Here is an example: in my native language Pula is a slur for male genitalia (way worse than D*ick in English) but at the same time it's the name of Botswana currency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula) and also a city in Croatia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana_pula).
- ridaj 5y agoIs Twitch's footprint big enough internationally that they have to worry about it?