[Wikimedia-l] Who invoked "principle of least surprise" for the image filter?

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun Jun 17 12:06:56 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anthony, 17/06/2012 05:05:
>
>> I still would have been confused.  Still am, actually.  Did this
>> paragraph have a serious point at all?  I hope so, because Wikipedia's
>> porn problem is a serious issue.
>
> The point was, I think, that no "software" is perfect (not even parents'
> brain) and that parents can't rely on software too much.

Is this supposed to be a parody of the people who point out the flaws
in software solutions but fail to point out the flaws in non-software
solutions?

Because, it seemed to me to be an instance of it.



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