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Scunthorpe Sans:一种自我审查的字体
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
2020 — 2022,它一次次回到首页
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Scunthorpe Sans 是一款“自我审查”字体,会用替换/遮盖的方式处理文本中出现的脏话子串。它名字来自经典的“Scunthorpe 问题”:用子串匹配来屏蔽脏话,会误伤 arsenal、Scunthorpe 这类普通单词。页面以字体形式演示了这种过滤思路的荒诞与局限。
为什么经久不衰:它用巧妙的字体设计把“子串审查”的经典 bug 变成可视笑话,让人直观理解为什么简单屏蔽词往往行不通。
HN 评论精选
儿童会不断绕过关键词过滤,自动审查很难真正奏效。
我曾在一款面向儿童的在线游戏工作,用户到数百万时需要用自动过滤脏话。只基于英文黑名单的办法毫无用处——孩子们会写单字母消息绕过过滤,或者用房间装饰拼出字母,甚至直接画出生殖器。这个字体或许能减少过滤需求,但孩子们总有创意。幸好当时不是即时通讯;后来的近即时消息产品每次都是一场灾难。
flurdy查看英文原文
I once worked for an online game aimed at children. With some limited messaging and a forum, we needed to automatically filter swearing especially when it started to reach millions of users. The initial limited English only blacklists were useless. Kids are creative and terrible. So we replaced with big processes of failover with several external swearword filtering services. Costly... But kids are creative..., they write single letter messages that circumvent any automated filtering. Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc. This font might have reduced the need for filtering. But kids are creative... Thankfully it was not instant messaging. Direct near-instant messaging came in later products... Car-crash every time. Never write a messaging app for kids. There is always a mean-time-to-dickpick or worse.
字体暴露了子串过滤的误伤,连 arsenal 这种词都会中招。
我很喜欢这个,尤其喜欢“arsenal”被审查成“a___nal”。
IanCal查看英文原文
I love this. I particularly like that arsenal is censored to a___nal.
自动化审查难以覆盖边缘情况且易被绕过,往往不是好方案。
YouTuber Tom Scott 有一个视频专门讲这种审查“问题”:要覆盖所有边缘情况根本不可能,而且很容易被绕过,所以通常不是好主意。巧合的是,视频拍摄于 Peniston。
thepete2查看英文原文
There is a video [0] about this censoring-"problem" by Youtuber Tom Scott. He talks about how it's impossible to implement with all edge-cases, easy to circumvent and thus usually not a good idea. Fittingly, the video is filmed in Peniston. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE
Scunthorpe 问题指子串过滤误伤地名,并延伸出用符号替代脏话的 grawlix 传统。
词源:这个问题得名于1996年 AOL 的脏话过滤器阻止 Scunthorpe 镇居民创建账号,因为镇名包含“cunt”这个子串;2000年代初 Google 的 SafeSearch 也犯过同样错误。另外还提到 grawlix——漫画中用 #、$、@ 等符号代替脏话的排版惯例。
throw0101a查看英文原文
Etymology: > The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".[1] In the early 2000s, Google's opt-in SafeSearch filters made the same error, preventing people from searching for local businesses or URLs that included Scunthorpe in their names.[2] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem Also, grawlix: > Grawlixes (#, $, , @): typographical symbols standing in for profanities, appearing in dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue.[2]* * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana * https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/grawlix-symbols-swearing-comic-strips * https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/the-grawlix-how-the-katzenjammer-kids-comic-strip-pioneered-the-use-of-typographical-symbols-for-swearing.html
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