"Marc A. Pelletier" marc@uberbox.org wrote:
Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator...
Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead.
I agree it's a little bit silly, and also a loosing proposition; even trying to filter for /actual/ cuss words is hard enough (because the list of word/fragments someone *might* find offensive is boundless); if we try to also block misspelling, lookalikes or cognates we might as well block /^[a-z]*$/.
Not only that, the selection of blacklisted words may be of- fensive itself. For example, https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmEdit/master/b... protects the Christian god with two entries, while Allah is up for ridicule. And it might even require Jews to type in the tetragrammaton and thus effectively ban them from a site.
IMHO if someone is offended by a captcha, they should click on reload.
Tim