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

[Tom Morris]

On Saturday, 16 June 2012 at 23:51, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:

> Am 16.06.2012 23:36, schrieb Tom Morris:
> > On Saturday, 16 June 2012 at 20:21, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
> > > That means they already found a solution to their problem that includes
> > > the whole web at once. As you might have noticed it isn't perfect. I
> > > guess that it could be easily improved over time. But the image filter
> > > had an different goal. It wouldn't help the schools, since the content
> > > is still accessible. But why we discuss about schools and children all
> > > the time and speak about it as a net nanny?
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> > Don't you get it? An image filter you can trivially opt-out of by clicking the big button labelled "show image" is a perfect way of preventing children from getting to naughty pictures…
> Is this irony? My comment included some irony as well. ;-)


I should probably get a .uk domain name for my emails to remove any doubt as to whether I'm being ironic and/or dryly sarcastic.   

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