Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some
regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator...
I don't personally care, you don't, but if we offend people needlessly it's
an oops. We need some elements of the site to meet Lowest Common
Denominator rather than most enlightened participant.
That all said, it is possible the screenshot was a fake; the brand new user
posted two things on-wiki; one a faked source for a BBC actress article,
and two the screenshot for the captcha.
On-wiki conclusion was we were trolled. Not sure if that means the
screenshot was a photoshop job or a real one, whether that was part of the
troll or not. But the actual edit was a good solid troll.
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's a CAPTCHA, not an article or piece of actual
content. If people are
actually getting offended by randomly generated CAPTCHAs I think they need
to find something more worthwhile to complain about.
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Tyler Romeo
On Jan 1, 2014 12:27 AM, "Benjamin Lees" <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's a blacklist that has been included
with FancyCaptcha for a few
months, although I don't know whether it's the same as the one the WMF
uses.
See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21025 and the
associated
patches.
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