Facebook Pretty rotten Easter egg

#1

Post by atularora » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:20 PM UTC

Facebook Pretty rotten Easter egg
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#2

Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:33 PM UTC

So what does it substitute for various races? And what's the "male" leet-speak equivalent?

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#3

Post by zenazn » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 8:20 PM UTC

Facebook translations are crowdsourced. Doesn't excuse this particular case, but don't assume it was anything malicious on Facebook's part.

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#4

Post by walrus » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 8:41 PM UTC

They seem to have changed it already. It's "F3m413" for female and "Male" for male now.

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#5

Post by cheald » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 8:51 PM UTC

zenazn wrote: post #3

Facebook translations are crowdsourced. Doesn't excuse this particular case, but don't assume it was anything malicious on Facebook's part.

This is the correct answer. Someone accepted the translation without thinking too much about it, but it's almost certain that it wasn't a Facebook employee who decided on that "translation".

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#6

Post by freehunter » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 9:25 PM UTC

So you switch to a novelty translation yet have no sense of humor?

Granted it's in bad taste, but... it's fucking 1337 speak.