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Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocked. I had a colleague whose surname, Sextro, was part
by dmlorenzetti 4y ago
Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocked.
I had a colleague whose surname, Sextro, was part of his email address. He occasionally had messages blocked by blanket filters like that.
- _joel 4y agoPraying for all the people who use the shortened form of Richard
- rajangdavis 4y agoRich?
- filoleg 4y agoI believe they were referecing a bit more relevant to the discussion short version of "Richard", which is "Dick".
- sedeki 4y agoInteresting, TIL.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoBob is short for Robert, too by the way. I make a point to mention that my cat’s full name is Robert. I enjoy the reactions: person either looks at me like I’m a moron for thinking this is something worth spending the energy to say out loud, or they really enjoy it. I digress.
- sedeki 4y agoYeah, I did know that. However "Richard" and "Dick" are much more distant in some sense... I had no idea.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoTotally, thanks for letting me use your comment to digress about Robert.
- rmetzler 4y agoTry again.
- lmc 4y agoChard?
- rhdunn 4y agoRichard is often shortened to Dick, e.g. as in "Tom, Dick, and Harry".
- olyjohn 4y agoI know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 4y agoThe nickname for John is Jack, actually. Jack and Dick both belong to a class of nicknames that all end in "ck" or "k" sounds, but for which the original doesn't have a k sound. * Jack * Dick * Rock from Roland * Hank from Henry * Chuck from Charles
- mod50ack 4y agoIt comes from Middle English rhyming slang. Rick -> Dick; Rob -> Bob.
- E4YomzYIN5YEBKe 4y agoIt likely originated in rhyming slang where words that rhyme are used as replacement[0]. It isn't the only example in nick names. Bill is a nickname for William and Bob is a nickname for Robert. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
- Beldin 4y agoWait till you find out about "Buffy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy
- jodrellblank 4y agoWait till you find out about "Tiffany" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI (CGP Grey) (spoiler: he couldn't find out where it came from, and did this video on his research to explain more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ )
- sandworm101 4y agoThe ultimate litmus test for such filtering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke And a favorite tech blog/news website that is often blocked: https://torrentfreak.com/ https://torrentfreak.com/
- giraffe_lady 4y agoor literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- sandworm101 4y agoor.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_My_Dad_Says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_My_Dad_Says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$h*!_My_Dad_Says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$h*!_My_Dad_Says The later (TV-Show) is actually based on the former (twitter feed) but couldn't retain the name in the US. It would probably have been perfectly fine as is in the UK.
- account42 4y ago> $h*! I never understand that kind of (often self) censorship where the meaning is intentionally left clear. It could be malicious compliance with keyword-based filters but people do it voluntarily even in places where no such filters exist.
- D-Coder 4y agoThe canonical joke is the complaint about substring censorship: "There are three English football teams that always fall victim to overzealous censorship: Arsenal, Scunthorpe and Manchester Fucking United."
- hermitdev 4y agoAs a racing fan, Dick Trickle [0] (retired NASCAR driver) is also a fun name. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Trickle
- anticristi 4y agoI wonder how such filters work in Sweden. We often see advertisement like "Sex gym i stan!". Meaning "Six gyms in town!".
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoSwedes aren’t quite so puritanical, as I think you know. In Swedish culture it’s apparently funny when small children make jokes about bajskorvar.
- selcuka 4y agoI once debugged an email delivery issue which turned out to be a similar filter which included email headers while scanning, ending up blocking any email that passed through an SMTP server called foo.sussex.bar.hp.com (or maybe it was Essex, my memory is hazy).
- passcod 4y agoBefore HTTPS was all but required for everything, an intranet site would get blocked in one particular office at 11pm every night. We tracked it down to a night-shift employee signing in, whose last name contained "shit". After pleading fruitlessly against that office's IT policies we solved the problem permanently by eating the overhead and turning on HTTPS.