They included 'mike hawk' (say it out loud...)? If that's on the list, there are a few thousand other auditory joke names that should have been on here.
The naughty username checking system used by Twitch
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#212Reminds me of the guy that streamed a talking banana on Twitch, where viewers could make it say things. People submitted variations of the n-word and got him banned, and after trying to filter out all character combinations he could think of he wrote a phonetic filter. That apparently worked much better than trying to think of every permutation of characters that sounds like bad words. https://youtu.be/bJ5ppf0po3k?t=…
The list included mike hawk (phonetically similar to 'my...'), so they are interested in phonetics, apparently, even for these usernames. The banana streamer has their stuff set up better than twitch, then.
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#213We used to call this the "Scunthorpe problem" - how do you filter for obviously rude names while still allowing people to have their actual names? Bearing in mind that some people's names are actually rude. I worked on the application form processing for the Nectar card launch in the UK back in the early 2000's, and we had several cases. Luckily we had human data-entry clerks in the loop, so all we had to do was flag…
> We used to call this the "Scunthorpe problem"
Fwiw, it's well-known as such, after relatively high-profile incidents involving people with that address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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#214%nekker%
I pity those who chose that username based on The Witcher's Nekkers.
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#215If "fork" and "shirt" are allowed I am fine. :)
You can still use any other language except English to achieve the goal .
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#216We had to do this for a link shortening system (to make sure random base64 didn't contain profanity). It was a pretty fun problem. Not just the implementation, but doing the math to make sure it didn't make our shortened links easily enumerable. The implementation wasn't too bad, but we set up logging initially to spit out any random strings it decided to block. I demo'd this in front of the whole company and live ta…
> to make sure random base64 didn't contain profanity I would have said "why bother" until this happened to us. A customer rang us up in a fury because some demo/ random data that we generated happened to have the word "penis" in it. They were convinced we must have put it there because we thought he was a cock. It was very difficult to defuse the situation.
We had a similar situation with a random name generator that just picked first names and last names at random. One result of this was 'Gaylord Dickinson', which sounds like it could only possibly have been made up as a homophobic joke, but which was just the random combination of two quite common first and last names.
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#217Reminds me of the guy that streamed a talking banana on Twitch, where viewers could make it say things. People submitted variations of the n-word and got him banned, and after trying to filter out all character combinations he could think of he wrote a phonetic filter. That apparently worked much better than trying to think of every permutation of characters that sounds like bad words. https://youtu.be/bJ5ppf0po3k?t=…
That is oddly hilarious yet really dark at the same time. Thank you for sharing the story about the talking banana.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
> didn't mention the use of v or l33t-speak What is 'v' in this context? Edit: thanks for the answers. It makes sense now.
It's visually equivalent to a u, so without vowels it's still possible to get "fvck", for example.
The Romans wovld approve of svch a scheme.
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#219We had to do this for a link shortening system (to make sure random base64 didn't contain profanity). It was a pretty fun problem. Not just the implementation, but doing the math to make sure it didn't make our shortened links easily enumerable. The implementation wasn't too bad, but we set up logging initially to spit out any random strings it decided to block. I demo'd this in front of the whole company and live ta…
In my help desk days I took a call from an irate person ranting about how we were telling her to "get a male sex change". Eventually I figured out she had become upset with "msexchange" showing up in the address!
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#220We used to call this the "Scunthorpe problem" - how do you filter for obviously rude names while still allowing people to have their actual names? Bearing in mind that some people's names are actually rude. I worked on the application form processing for the Nectar card launch in the UK back in the early 2000's, and we had several cases. Luckily we had human data-entry clerks in the loop, so all we had to do was flag…
Seems like a rude name might give you some privacy advantages in the 21st century. To the price of being excluded by random services maybe. Old math prof of mine was named Dr. Cock, and he wasn't the only one, the name was common. Students called him Dr. Octocock.
I have a friend who studied at the University in Linz, way back when. According to him, on the Universities System/370 they used to have an account name scheme where they simply concatenated the first 2 letters of the first name and the first 3 letters of the last name. Aledgedly, the scheme got changed after Professor Arno Schulz (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Schulz) was understandably upset about his account name (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arsch).