On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.dewrote:
Not only that, the selection of blacklisted words may be of- fensive itself.
That doesn't seem like a problem, since the list isn't visible in the user interface. Users will not be complaining that they aren't receiving "niggardly", "cocky", and "cumin" in CAPTCHAs.
For example,
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmEdit/master/b... 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.
I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or CAPTMCA soon enough.
There are likely a number of strings that should be added to the default blacklist. Patches welcome!