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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by marcus_holmes on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:36AM (#28786824)
That's a slightly different problem from the Scunthorpe problem.

You have a customer who gives her name as "Fanny Batter". Is that a permissible name?

What about "Juan Kerr"? Or "Amanda Huggenkiss"?

It's not about replacing "ass" with "butt", but detecting rudeness/humour in context.

I'd be amazed if machine learning can solve this one. It's extremely hard for humans.

* all those names should be rejected btw

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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by CRConrad on Saturday October 09, 2021 @09:09PM (#28814868)
> * all those names should be rejected btw

No they shouldn't.

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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by marcus_holmes on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:28PM (#28899496)
If you don't want someone going to the press and creating some "human interest" story about how they got a loyalty card with a stupid name, then your algorithm should at least question them.
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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by CRConrad on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:31AM (#28940288)
But perhaps you do want them to do that, or at least don't care if they do. Maybe you think silly jokers is a good demographic to market to this way.

And if not, then just tell the press: "They typed in the stupid name, so they got it on their card. How is that our fault? Now go write about some real news in stead of this lazy sensationalism."

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