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Anyone here surprised? No? I didn't think so. Reposting because I know someone else is about to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem http://en.wiki
by hobs 13y ago
Anyone here surprised? No? I didn't think so.
Reposting because I know someone else is about to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- greglindahl 13y agoIt's not too hard to mostly fix the Scunthorpe problem by generating word lists: shitake, oshita, acunto... and don't forget that Dikshitar and Dikshit are (high caste) Indian names.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThe problem is that it's far more trivial to bypass the filters than it is to make the filters work well and not have false positives. Consider: sh1t, cu|\|7, a55, f00ker, and so on and so on. Plus you have to constantly update to take into account new slang which can have double meaning. Some kid might say "she's just a thirsty ratchet" and there's no way in hell that a simplistic automated system is going to be able to flag that as being a use of expletives or filthy and derogatory language.
- greglindahl 13y agoI wasn't proposing fixing any of those problems, just the Scunthorpe problem! You are correct that there are more problems out there.
- vacri 13y agoI find it humourous looking at some oldschool grep commands that grep for 'username' and 'password'... but the first letter might be capitalised, so you grep for 'sername' and... 'ssword'. Because 'assword' is too rude for code, apparently...
- Datsundere 13y agoyou forgot "the N-word" they say in the media. It's white people getting away with saying the n-word.
- timje1 13y agoThis joke's got recursion![0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935041
- ankitml 13y agoI tried to create email id for one of my interns "harshit" and my email provider outlook.com didnt allow me to do so.
- weland 13y ago> Dikshitar and Dikshit are (high caste) Indian names. I'm sorry, I know it's impolite, but I chuckled and nearly spilled coffee on my keyboard.
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agoFair enough, but remember that this cuts in all directions. Some common English names, words and abbreviations can be rude in other languages, e.g. "Dole", "lul".
- weland 13y agoHappens everywhere :-).
- mattchamb 13y agoHere in NZ, it caused quite a stir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Henry_%28broadcaster%29#Sheila_Dikshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Henry_%28broadcaster%29#Sh...
- kzrdude 13y agoOne of the biggest Starcraft progamers is known as Jaedong (realname is Lee Jae Dong) everywhere, but can't use this nick in the game client..
- acheron 13y agoThe clbuttic mistake.
- smnrchrds 13y agoIn Iran the Wikipedia page for Dick Cheney is blocked, as well as anyone else with that first name. Way to go Britain!
- gaius 13y agoIn the early days of the BBC they referred to the Dutch cities of Rotter and Amster.