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

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun Jun 17 03:05:10 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Tobias Oelgarte
<tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 17.06.2012 01:21, schrieb Anthony:
>
>>> I have never seen a "censorware" that works
>>> flawlessly (not even china can do this right). Either it allows to much
>>> (incomplete blacklist) or it is unnecessary limited (incomplete whitelist
>>> producing angry mob). Additionally it has to suite the view of the
>>> parents
>>> and match the age of the child. The only "software" which does this
>>> perfectly is the brain of the parents that tracks the actions of the
>>> child,
>>> stops them when necessary and gives useful advice (even better then
>>> Clippy).
>>
>> What parent tracks every action of their child?  You seem to have a
>> very unrealistic picture of how parenting works.
>
> I guess i have to really wrap any comment inside the
> <sarcasm><irony><takeItNotToSerious> tag stack to avoid confusion...

I still would have been confused.  Still am, actually.  Did this
paragraph have a serious point at all?  I hope so, because Wikipedia's
porn problem is a serious issue.



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