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Being generous, it could be there's NSFW imagery in there? I can't be arsed to dig into a mountain of scientifically named links, but you can find troves of pr0

Being generous, it could be there's NSFW imagery in there? I can't be arsed to dig into a mountain of scientifically named links, but you can find troves of pr0n among other things in Wikimedia if you know where to look.

linuxandrew 2y ago
I mean you can find porn on Google and you don't have to look that hard
- zblevins 2y ago
  Thank you for actually spelling porn. This whole thing around altering spelling to avoid blocking which I presume comes out of other apps has gotten to be quite annoying.
  - Dalewyn 2y ago
    "Pr0n" is classic internet slang that predates onerous censorship let alone "apps".
    - dragonwriter 2y ago
      Right, the form to deal with onerous censorship is “corn”.
      - zblevins 2y ago
        Was totally unaware thanks!
      - Fnoord 2y ago
        What the fork?
      - im3w1l 2y ago
        It's a little depressing to think about how much better modern LLMs are at preventing "harmful" content than past systems.
      - tyre 2y ago
        I can’t believe we have grown ass adults posting “seggs” on social media and bleeping it out in audio. People shape themselves so much around algorithms.
    - moron4hire 2y ago
      It absolutely came from censorship. IRC chat rooms and PHPBB message boards with blacklists of words that would get starred out. Hoping it wasn't implemented with substring match so typing "shell" didn't come out "s****".
bawolff 2y ago
I guess if they blocked *.wikimedia.org to get at commons.wikimedia.org that could make sense. However all those images are also accessible via an en.wikipedia.org url.
Symbiote 2y ago
(I'm not sure why my comment is now collapsed by default. It doesn't seem to be flagged, and has a score of 15.) I tried again, and this time I get "Posts that look like spam are blocked", and a similar message if I try to leave a link in a comment. I wonder if spammers have been vandalizing Wikispecies and posting the links, but unlike Wikipedia the editors of Wikispecies struggle to remove the spam in time? The project has hundreds of thousands of pages, but the vast majority would have very little content or oversight. It could be the Wiki project with the worst pages-per-editor ratio. There isn't pornography, or at least only indirectly — Wikispecies doesn't host any images itself (says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies ).

linuxandrew 2y ago

I mean you can find porn on Google and you don't have to look that hard

zblevins 2y ago
Thank you for actually spelling porn. This whole thing around altering spelling to avoid blocking which I presume comes out of other apps has gotten to be quite annoying.
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  "Pr0n" is classic internet slang that predates onerous censorship let alone "apps".
  - dragonwriter 2y ago
    Right, the form to deal with onerous censorship is “corn”.
    - zblevins 2y ago
      Was totally unaware thanks!
    - Fnoord 2y ago
      What the fork?
    - im3w1l 2y ago
      It's a little depressing to think about how much better modern LLMs are at preventing "harmful" content than past systems.
    - tyre 2y ago
      I can’t believe we have grown ass adults posting “seggs” on social media and bleeping it out in audio. People shape themselves so much around algorithms.
  - moron4hire 2y ago
    It absolutely came from censorship. IRC chat rooms and PHPBB message boards with blacklists of words that would get starred out. Hoping it wasn't implemented with substring match so typing "shell" didn't come out "s****".

bawolff 2y ago

I guess if they blocked *.wikimedia.org to get at commons.wikimedia.org that could make sense. However all those images are also accessible via an en.wikipedia.org url.

Symbiote 2y ago

(I'm not sure why my comment is now collapsed by default. It doesn't seem to be flagged, and has a score of 15.) I tried again, and this time I get "Posts that look like spam are blocked", and a similar message if I try to leave a link in a comment. I wonder if spammers have been vandalizing Wikispecies and posting the links, but unlike Wikipedia the editors of Wikispecies struggle to remove the spam in time? The project has hundreds of thousands of pages, but the vast majority would have very little content or oversight. It could be the Wiki project with the worst pages-per-editor ratio. There isn't pornography, or at least only indirectly — Wikispecies doesn't host any images itself (says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies ).