On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:05 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got
this string for their
captcha on en.wikipedia "nigerblew"
http://snag.gy/JpSUR.jpg
Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think
it's reasonable to try and avoid things close to the two-g version of that
word; nobody's denigrated by avoiding possibly offensive if misinterpreted
words. I recall there's a filter list?...
I don't know if there's a filter list, but this has happened before. I've
seen many of our past and current CAPTCHAs when we were testing the
signup/login redesign. I recall seeing both "headshits" and
"obamadick".
The CAPTCHA is two randomly generated English words. Personally, I think it
might just be good to regenerate the CAPTCHAs entirely from time to time.
AFAIK it's not that hard and our CAPTCHAs are weak anyway.
Steven