Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
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Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
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Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#2I'm pretty sure Caterina Fake[1] has talked about problems with signing up for everything from Facebook to buying plane tickets.
These names need to be on those "things programmers believe about names that are false" lists closer to the top[2].
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake [2] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#3I believe this is a dying problem. The next social media will be based around a real life user.
First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people.
Given how easily reddit is astroturfed by Aldi, Tmobile, Samsung, Tesla, Donald Trump, and more, the next gen social media will revolve around real people rather than usernames and corporate accounts.
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#4Obligatory link to Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#5I believe this is a dying problem. The next social media will be based around a real life user. First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people. Given how easily reddit is astroturfed by Aldi, Tmobile, Samsung, Tesla, Donald Trump, and more, the next gen social media will revolve around real people rather than usern…
I don't think that accounts for lazy or ignorant programmers trying to limit joke/abusive accounts, though. And that's what the problem has always been.
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#6I'm pretty sure Caterina Fake[1] has talked about problems with signing up for everything from Facebook to buying plane tickets. These names need to be on those "things programmers believe about names that are false" lists closer to the top[2]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake [2] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Or Christopher Null: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#7A similar problem happens when the name itself is only considered offensive in certain cultures, but is completely benign in the culture of the person with the name. I remember two gaming related incidents where people were blocked from making accounts; one was a south american using "negro" as his username being prevented from creating an account, even though english speakers with the username "black" are fine; the other was a muslim with the first name "Jihad" who couldn't create a playstation account. A muslim coworker told me that "jihad" being synonymous with "holy war" is pretty much just a western thing, it could also be referring to an internal struggle, so it's similar to christians naming a child "Chastity".
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#8I believe this is a dying problem. The next social media will be based around a real life user. First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people. Given how easily reddit is astroturfed by Aldi, Tmobile, Samsung, Tesla, Donald Trump, and more, the next gen social media will revolve around real people rather than usern…
Even accepting your premise as as true (which I don't necessarily), social media isn't the only space in which this problem appears.
The article itself mentions "members of British Parliament [being] blocked from viewing the Sexual Offences Bill they had proposed by a government spam filter"[0] and "the London Horniman museum’s emails [being] flagged because systems thought they meant 'horny man'"[1].
[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_politics/2723851.stm [1] http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/533121.Name_of_museum_is_c...
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#9I believe this is a dying problem. The next social media will be based around a real life user. First name, last name, photo, home address(or similar). Everything verified or at least enough for people to feel like they are talking to real people. Given how easily reddit is astroturfed by Aldi, Tmobile, Samsung, Tesla, Donald Trump, and more, the next gen social media will revolve around real people rather than usern…
I think it's more likely that the next social media will use social graphs more effectively for excluding poor content.
'Retweeting' needs to carry social risk to be high quality. Right now all social media is just a mad scramble for short-term attention metrics.
Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
#10> Take the case of Jennifer Null, for instance, whose name was frequently rejected in input fields because the program treated her last name as a form of code, rather than text
For all those who say javascript the language is fine: ^^