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I suspect really strongly that the available characters in the 4chan captcha were chose to be able to spell out the most racist/nazi/extreme slurs and slogans i
by NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
I suspect really strongly that the available characters in the 4chan captcha were chose to be able to spell out the most racist/nazi/extreme slurs and slogans imaginable. For instance, not all numerals are ever used, but 1, 4, and 8 are. K is often there, and whatever the algo is, pseudorandom or not, it often doubles/triples characters. I've personally seen "kkk" twice over the years. Mind you, it does seem random. But even randomly, these must happen often enough to set that crowd off, they make a game of posting a screenshot of the "good ones".
- blackjackfoe 2y agoAll the worst slurs I can think of in my limited vocabulary can't even be spelled with the characters available. I suspect the opposite - they might have been chosen to avoid spelling things like that.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoYou either know some radioactively hot slurs, or you've just not hung out there enough. Only the "i" is missing, and a week doesn't go by that someone doesn't post it with the 1 instead. Granted, I think that one's a repost (never bothered to try to check).
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoOh no you’re probably on the money
- Der_Einzige 2y ago4chan was gaming the previous captchas for awhile to label some of the data with racial slurs, as they had discovered the threshold that you’re allowed to be wrong by, and were aggressively abusing it.