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