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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'

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Post by wink »

ktpsns wrote: post #114
tokai wrote: post #41

I have an ø in my name. It is especially annoying when entering payment details and I have to input my name as it appears on my credit card. It is surprisingly often that only ascii is accepted. I would guess the anglo-internet is hell if you're from Asia.

In Germany, transliterations are widespread and officially accepted. Ö=OE, Ä=AE, Ü=UE, ß=SS makes it fine to write Hübner as Huebner even in the passport and other official documents. I wonder why other countries do not allow transliterations as a legal way to deal with anglo-centric character sets?

Not sure what the official stance is, but people with Turkish names seem to (often?) transliterate ü = u, ö => o, as seen for example at https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088 and https://twitter.com/ismail_kupeli - not sure about Swedes.

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by pvaldes »

rectangletangle wrote: post #63
crooked-v wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.historyrundown.com/top-5-people-with-the-longest-... There's a couple of people for you with legal names well past 500 characters, and that's just of Western European descent, where German-style compound words are rare.

Most certainly, percentile wise, they're the 99th. Nearly every case where I encountered a name that long though, there was a shorter form. Generally really long names are either patronymic/matronymic (listing ancestors) like many Arabic names, or names following Hispanic conventions. Hawaiian names can also sometimes be rather impressive. For instance Pablo Picasso's full name is 103 characters (without whitespace):…

Is a thing of the past. In Spain is currently illegal to register a baby with more than two first names, except if she/he belongs to the royal family.

The last name's list on the other hand can be technically infinite but only the first two (from both: father and mother) are used normally.

You can have also as many pseudonyms as you want of course, but they aren't official names.

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by duxup »

zaarn wrote: post #140
duxup wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always assumed it was just to filter usernames in an aesthetic sense...less so about behavior. Sadly most lists of unpleasant words are pretty aggressive.

>Sadly most lists of unpleasant words are pretty aggressive. Either that or they contain words that look like someone was sitting in front of the screen and making a scrunched face trying to remember any more offensive words. They're also usually very US-centric and completely ignore other cultures, languages or societies.

I think the it is more that they cross cultural boundaries. As someone looking through a list I feel like I see a lot of odd...non US centeric words and slang.

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by astura »

tedmiston wrote: post #121
x1798DE wrote: post #116

I think it's interesting that the article mentions that they "haven't solved the Scunthorpe problem". I always thought of the Scunthorpe problem less as something to be solved and more as a cautionary tale about the folly of attempting to implement censorship software. It's like the DRM problem. It's incredibly difficult if not impossible, and the goal itself is dubious.

Like validating email addresses with a regular expression. There’s an edge case to break every assumption.

They only proper way to validate an email address is to send an email to it.

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by DKnoll »

kstrauser wrote: post #12

I worked at an ISP in the '90s, and our first paid customer was John Blank. On several occasions, a well-meaning biller would delete his account because it was "obvious a test".

I'm tempted to change my name to Test Test... I'd be like a ghost.

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by dang »

Timmah wrote: post #113
driverdan wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because jokes are generally frowned upon.

That was the HN of yore. Now it's much closer to Reddit circa 2011. Reddit is now Facebook circa 2010. (I don't know what fb is these days, but it doesn't sound good). The mods here should have capped new accounts years ago and permanently welded the lid closed.

People have been complaining about HN turning into Reddit for at least 10 years. In fact, the HN guidelines used to ask people not to complain about HN turning into Reddit ("it's a semi-noob illusion"). But when we augmented the guidelines a year or so ago, we took out that one to preserve brevity.

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by likeclockwork »

TheCoreh wrote: post #92
userbinator wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those people probably still don't have it quite as difficult as these two: http://mw.eco.br/ig/prof/ReinhardtAdolfoFuck.htm http://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/chew-shit-fun

Or the former director of Civil Police in the Brazilian state of Goiás (who I believe passed away in 2014): https://www.policiacivil.go.gov.br/ex-diretores/hitler-musso...

What was his record like?

Re: Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

JohnWilcox wrote: post #82
dx87 wrote: post #7

A 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…

I think the real problem that is totally overlooked is the whole authoritarian nature of this paternalism of monitoring people as to their "offensiveness". It's pure and unadulterated authoritarianism and controlling to declare yourself as the moral arbiter of what is and isn't offensive and what should and shouldn't be allowed. And no, it's not a matter of whether you CAN legally do so, it's a matter of whether you…

There is also this idea in the US that typing somewhere fuck or shit is unacceptable.

I am French and we have our dirty words which can be pit to good use or misused. An adult using them judiciously may help their message going through. It must not be overused, there is a specific balance to find.

Nobody will, however, type m....e because it means that the word should not have been there in the first place.

Bleeping such words looks like fake puritanism to me. Either use them and face the music or say crotte.

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