Toksyuryel (toksyuryel)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Sep-12 01:54:42 UTC
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@redenchilada I've been arguing from the standpoint that a word filter has all of the same problems DRM does, in that no matter how much you try to massage it into working the way you want it to it will *always* have false positives and workarounds- the false positives will keep hitting the legitimate users, and the workarounds will keep being used by the people who want to bypass it. This causes three serious problems: first and foremost, it doesn't actually *stop* the behavior it's meant to stop; secondly, it inconveniences legitimate users when a false positive is encountered; finally, it creates a LOT of extra work for the admins as they struggle to keep up with both the false positives AND the workarounds. This sort of thing is an arms race with no end in sight. You will never find the perfect regex that blocks only the words you want and has no workarounds. That's what my argument is.
