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> For example, I worked with the NBA to let fans text messages onto the Jumbotron. The technology worked great, but let me tell you, no amount of regular expres
by exabrial 3y ago
> For example, I worked with the NBA to let fans text messages onto the Jumbotron. The technology worked great, but let me tell you, no amount of regular expressions stands a chance against a 15 year old trying to text the word “penis” onto the Jumbotron.
incredible
- klyrs 3y agoJust hire a censor, for crying out loud, the NBA can afford it and it doesn't need to scale.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoIf you read the article you may note that this is exactly what happened
- klyrs 3y agoYes and no. They first tried paying engineers to do it instead. They probably paid those engineers more, to fail, than they ultimately paid the censors.
- exabrial 3y agoThat also fails: https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/minnesota-vikings-johnny-sins-veterans https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/minnesota-vikings-johnny-...
- WJW 3y agoIf it hadn't been called out in the media, how many people would have caught onto that?
- dvngnt_ 3y agoenough for it to get called out by the media
- earthboundkid 3y agoHe's wearing the old camo pattern which hasn't be used in decades, which any military veteran would cue in on.
- pests 3y agoThere is no indication of of the date of the photo. The tweet even mentions "looking up to" implying they may be an older role model. That photo could have easily been taken decades ago. Maybe we just assume digital photo = digital age and everything posted is recent? You wouldn't have that objection if it was an old black and white grainy photo with the same out of date pattern. Reminds me of my favorite comedian: "One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture is of you when you were younger."
- genewitch 3y ago"and the picture of you when you were youngest is also the oldest picture of you"
- hnbad 3y agoI don't think "filter out texts that look like they might be blatant sexual puns or inappropriate for a jumbotron" is on the same level as "filter out images in a promotion of militarist culture that depict people whom the military might not want to be associated with". I doubt most people (including journalists) would have known the image was a prank if there weren't articles written about the prank after it was pointed out in a way that journalists found out about. On the other hand getting the word "penis" or a slur on the jumbotron is intentionally somewhat obvious. I actually think the example of a porn actor being mistaken for a soldier is rather harmless (although it will offend exactly the kind of crowd that thinks a sports event randomly "honoring" military personnel is good and normal). I recall politicians being tricked into "honoring" far worse people in pranks like this just because someone constructed a sob story about them using a real picture. The problem here is that filtering out the "bad people" requires either being able to perfectly identify (i.e. already know) every single bad person or every single good person. A reverse image search is a good gut check but if the photo itself doesn't have any exact matches you rely on facial recognition which is too unreliable. You don't want to turn down a genuine sob story because the guy just happens to look like a different person.
- klyrs 3y agoThat's an acceptable failure. The only people who know that guy are into porn already.
- eru 3y agoI know, because the linked article told me. (In this case, I don't care. But the pearl-clutching type might.)
- _a_a_a_ 3y ago"Safe to say the Vikings social media team is going to be thinking long and hard..." those last 3 words genuinely accidental?
- mock-possum 3y agoI mean… that’s hardly offensive though. That’s not on the same level as a racial slur or something.
- omginternets 3y agoJust let clever 15 year olds write "penis" on the jumbotron, for crying out loud!
- klyrs 3y agoIt's really not that clever.
- serf 3y agoit's all relative to the cohort. if the rest of his classmates are drooling and eating chaulk the kid that gets the jumbotron to be lewd is pretty clever.
- omginternets 3y agoAnd?
- joshspankit 3y agoTalk to the advertisers
- eru 3y agoThat wouldn't be nearly as funny as putting up a bit of a fight. And those 15 year olds need an outlet to let them prove that they are clever.
- Ekaros 3y agoYeah there is two parts. One is showing the stupidity of unfiltered content by anyone. And other one is showing filtering is impossible... Both are funny... And kinda prove that you can not allow input from public.
- omginternets 3y agoThe parent post is talking about hiring professional censors, which strikes me as caring a bit too much about the jokes of a 15yo.
- stainablesteel 3y ago[flagged]
- ben_w 3y agoThe city famous for the gladiators was forcibly depopulated around 1500 years ago or so. The kingdoms and empires that followed it, also fell. The closest we get even to the surviving nations out of those who defeated the successors to Rome, themselves fell around WW1.
- eru 3y ago> The closest we get even to the surviving nations out of those who defeated the successors to Rome, themselves fell around WW1. I'm not sure who you are talking about?
- ben_w 3y agoMainly thinking of the Ottomans ("around" WW1, not strictly in it, but IMO the war itself caused it), who defeated the Eastern Roman Empire, who in turn were not only a successor to the pre-split Roman Empire, but which also occupied the city of Rome itself for a while on three separate occasions. Looking at just the city of Rome itself, you've got the following mess that I'm just copying from Wikipedia with light formatting: Western Roman Empire — 286–476; Kingdom of Italy — 476–493; Ostrogothic Kingdom — 493–536; Eastern Roman Empire — 536–546; Ostrogothic Kingdom — 546–547; Eastern Roman Empire — 547–549; Ostrogothic Kingdom — 549–552; Eastern Roman Empire — 552–751; Kingdom of the Lombards — 751–756; Papal States — 756–1798; Roman Republic — 1798–1799; Papal States — 1799–1809; First French Empire — 1809–1814; Papal States — 1814–1849; Roman Republic — 1849; Papal States — 1849–1870; Kingdom of Italy — 1870–1943. Which might make my core point even more strongly? IDK.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoHoly Romanian Empire ? (j/k)
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- bigstrat2003 3y agoI'll be honest: I'm 38 years old, and I think it's pretty funny to get "penis" up on the Jumbotron. I don't think I'd do it, but I would certainly have a good laugh if I witnessed it.
- Lornedon 3y agoLet's do a search for the threshold age. I'm 26, and I'd probably do it.
- brk 3y ago50 here. Would be down to see a jumbo penis.
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- benstein 3y agoI wrote the article and I think it's funny
- jenadine 3y agoI am 41, and I would find it terribly offensive. There can be children watching and... No. Just kidding, I'd find it funny.
- assimpleaspossi 3y agoI'm a mature adult and find such childishness stupid.
- LocalH 3y agoI'm a mature adult and find such childishness refreshing and needed in this world.
- Brian_K_White 3y ago