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. -- Tyler Romeo On Jan 1, 2014 12:27 AM, "Benjamin Lees" <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/01/2014 12:34 AM, George Herbert wrote: 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]*$/. -- Marc

"Marc A. Pelletier" <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote: Not only that, the selection of blacklisted words may be of- fensive itself. For example, https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmEdit/master/… 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

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, sites that want to screen out users with certain political, religious, etc. sensibilities could, with some small tweaks to the code, create a ConfirmEdit whitelist that causes *all* CAPTCHAs to contain words calculated to offend those groups. Actually, with QuestyCaptcha, this is already possible. One could include in $wgCaptchaQuestions answers that require the user to type in strings denigrating certain groups or deities; swearing allegiance to certain causes or entities; or stating that one has certain stigmatized attractions, preferences or desires or engages in certain stigmatized behaviors. One could also use it to screen for a certain level of intelligence, knowledge, etc. in a given field by asking questions only certain people would be able to answer. The possibilities are endless once one's main priority becomes to repel or screen out, rather than attract, most potential users.