"Marc A. Pelletier" <marc(a)uberbox.org> 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]*$/.
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