[HN Gopher] Lyft's algorithm is trying to block people with name...
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Lyft's algorithm is trying to block people with names like 'Dick'
and 'Cummings'
Author : danso
Score : 91 points
Date : 2020-01-11 20:07 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| tempsy wrote:
| Sounds like a bad product manager. Could've talked to literally
| any company that has a real name policy on common pitfalls and
| this would be near the top.
| haunter wrote:
| A german user was banned on Twitter for writing "Die Boomer" =
| "the boomers"
|
| https://www.dw.com/en/german-grammar-in-ok-boomer-tweet-gets...
|
| Also my all time favorite when Facebook banned people posting
| about faggots which is a traditional food in the UK Midlands
|
| https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10419598/Man...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)
| noodlesUK wrote:
| I have to say, when I first moved back to the U.K. after a long
| time in the states, I absolutely could not control my shock
| followed by giggling when people asked if they could bum a fag
| off me at a pub or suchlike. (Fag is slang for cigarettes for
| those outside the U.K.)
| reaperducer wrote:
| I've always known the word "fag" to also mean a bundle of
| sticks, like you'd use to start a fire. I expect the meanings
| are related.
|
| Life seems to be peppered with problems with people with
| limited vocabularies who would rather make themselves
| "offended" by something, rather than think.
|
| See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_t
| he_word_n...
| 0x8BADF00D wrote:
| Ah the good old Scunthorpe problem. Funny to see people still run
| into it.
| hprotagonist wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
|
| the scunthorpe problem will never die.
| [deleted]
| shalmanese wrote:
| You could almost say it's a clbuttic problem.
| userbinator wrote:
| At least they did not try to modify the names... imagine if
| every Dick got renamed to Penis!
| vanniv wrote:
| Tech companies will never learn.
|
| How many times must we go through "real names" idiocies before
| these supposed geniuses stop being imbeciles
| danso wrote:
| I don't think this is really a case of a "real name" policy
| gone awry. For starters, to be a Lyft driver, you have to
| supply your driver ID (including your official name). The issue
| at hand seems to be the names the drivers choose to be visible
| to users on the app, e.g. "Jon" instead of "Jonathan". If Lyft
| had a real name policy, they would just force drivers to
| display their name as it appears on their submitted driver's
| ID.
| minimaxir wrote:
| Real name policies are not a good analogy here, as being on
| Lyft requires in-person interaction.
| vanniv wrote:
| What does an in-person interaction have to do with the idiocy
| of building software to decide what names people are allowed
| to have?
| petre wrote:
| Philip K. Dick would get a dystopian feeling about this if he
| were alive.
| danso wrote:
| Besides the humor of how Lyft's filter flagged traditionally
| Caucasian names like "Cummings" - _in addition_ to the usual
| issues with non-Western names, e.g. Pimpong and Poon - I 'm
| fascinated/confused how this made it into production? The user
| database _already_ exists and was currently being used by the
| live application. Before deploying this new filter onto the
| production database, wouldn 't you do a dry run to get not _only_
| the count of users who will be flagged and notified, but a
| listing of frequently flagged names? Which you could easily
| manually eyeball to make sure there weren 't obvious false
| positives?
|
| With a userbase as big as Lyft's, I'm sure there were a ton of
| obvious true positives (anyone named "Fuck", ostensibly). I just
| can't believe they didn't notice a surname as relatively common
| as Cumming/Cummings. Yes, the apparent naivety of the regex is an
| issue, but this seems like a system for which a lot of testing on
| actual data would be easy and natural to do as part of the QA
| process.
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| This is all bullshit anyway. A word is just a word and whenever
| it insults somebody it's their own problem. I would rather
| change my actual name to Fuck if I wasn't too lazy to deal with
| problems like that.
|
| I once read a story of a Vietnamese man named Hui. He had to go
| to the court to protect his right to be named this way in
| Ukraine where the word is used widely and has only one meaning
| - a dick.
| reaperducer wrote:
| _A word is just a word and whenever it insults somebody it 's
| their own problem._
|
| There was a study linked to on HN a couple of years ago that
| found that babies recognize swear words even before they have
| language skills, and that people can sometimes recognize
| swear words in languages they don't speak. It has to do with
| the tone and sharpness of the sounds.
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| Does this mean a baby, whose father's name is Dick would
| feel bad and/or get mentally traumatized?
| lostlogin wrote:
| > It has to do with the tone and sharpness of the sounds.
| afandian wrote:
| Precisely the opposite.
| reaperducer wrote:
| Since a credit card is required to use Lyft, why not just
| validate the name on the card with the card company and make it
| the issuer's problem?
| andrewbarba wrote:
| A credit card is not required to use Lyft. You can use credit
| from gift cards or promo codes, as well as 1 time payment
| methods like Apple Pay which are completed at time of ride
| booking and do not expose names
| danso wrote:
| I just tried to create a driver's account on Lyft's website.
| There's an initial page where you give them your name. And
| then, deeper into the process, a form for supplying your name
| as it officially appears on your driver's license.
|
| Which makes sense. There's likely a lot of drivers who want
| to go by "Tom" instead of "Thomas" or whatever their full
| official name is - which is even more important for drivers
| with very uncommon names who want to go by something more
| familiar/pronounceable. There's probably a decent safety
| argument for not requiring drivers to have their full real
| names be accessible to the user, especially in cases where a
| driver has an uncommon (i.e. easy to doxx) name.
| true_religion wrote:
| I hear the argument but taxi drivers were always required
| to show their real name, so the same should apply to Lyft
| drivers.
|
| The privacy of the driver is outweighed by the need for the
| public to feel they will safely be taken to their
| destination in an enclosed vehicle totally controlled by
| another party.
| zulln wrote:
| > I hear the argument but taxi drivers were always
| required to show their real name, so the same should
| apply to Lyft drivers.
|
| You can definitely argue that they should show their real
| name, but it is not a good argument that because taxi
| requires it, lyft should as well.
| danso wrote:
| I'm not sure what the official rule is for NYC's taxis
| when it comes to the name display; fwiw you can see the
| official list of medallion license numbers and associated
| names here:
|
| https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Medallion-
| Drive...
|
| In any case, rules are different for different
| jurisdictions and entities. If NYC TLC did have that
| requirement, then it's possible that real name display is
| mandatory for Lyft drivers operating in NYC, given that
| TLC has some oversight over services like Lyft. However,
| TLC also has some say over livery cabs. It's been awhile
| since I've been in a livery cab, but I think they do
| operate under different requirements in terms of what's
| required for display.
| matthewarkin wrote:
| None of the major card networks except for American Express
| validate cardholder name. The Address Verification Service
| (AVS) also only validates numeric values (so if your address
| is 123 Main Street, 123 Maple Ave will return a matching
| response)
| rolltiide wrote:
| Was always wondering about that, only occasionally
| misspelling a letter here or there to see if a transaction
| would get approved. Can anyone corroborate?
| lostlogin wrote:
| The crazy shit that happens when an address is entirely
| correct would make me hesitate before adding errors
| intentionally.
| user5994461 wrote:
| Having worked around payments, I can guarantee you that
| card networks do check the Card Holder name. Better yet,
| they can match against first name, last name and middle
| name to adjust the risk rating of individual transactions.
|
| Albeit, this is rarely used to block payments, because if
| they stopped payments when customers didn't put their
| middle name the exact way it's written on their card,
| nobody would be able to pay online.
| userbinator wrote:
| _positives (anyone named "Fuck", ostensibly)._
|
| This guy would disagree:
|
| http://mw.eco.br/ig/prof/ReinhardtAdolfoFuck.htm
|
| Along the same lines,
|
| https://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/chew-shit-fun
| danso wrote:
| Yeah, no name filter is going to be perfect for all edge
| cases. But presumably, it's a lot cheaper to have the Lyft
| support team handle email tickets from the relatively few
| Professor Fucks, than to have them also deal with every
| Cummings and Dick.
| xxxtentachyon wrote:
| Or just not filter names on an app like Lyft. You can't
| even see other users' names. Who is potentially being
| harmed by even a malicious Professor Fuck?
| zulln wrote:
| Drivers? Cannot imagine it being a big problem people
| having really offensive names though, after all you are
| actually meeting the driver irl and expect them to..
| well, drive you.
| tmpz22 wrote:
| Its funny to me how they try to apply christian values like
| avoiding vaguely sexual sounding words while also making
| significant amounts of money off late night debauchery, picking
| people up from clubs at 3am.
| copperx wrote:
| Polite language is secular. Where do you get this religious
| connotation from?
| AdrianB1 wrote:
| Forbidding a name like Cummings because it is not "polite"
| is neither secular or logical. Also in non-Catholic
| Christian countries sex and nudity are not a big deal
| (example: Germany), so you are partially right: not a
| Christian connotation, just particular forms of it.
| chrisseaton wrote:
| > while also making significant amounts of money off late
| night debauchery, picking people up from clubs at 3am
|
| I'm not Christian but I don't think most Christians consider
| a night out a club to be debauchery.
| itronitron wrote:
| that's sort of the point
| [deleted]
| vxxzy wrote:
| How does this directly relate to "Christian" values? Could
| "Islamic" values be applied? Afterall, the Prophet Mohammed
| made his opposition to crude language clear in the Hadith.
|
| Follow up: Also appears there are some misgiving regarding
| crude language within the Hindu religion as well. [0]
|
| [0]: https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.
| php?...
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| Ok, let's call that puritan values of abrahamic religions.
| rhizome wrote:
| And I bet someone named Shooter[1] has no problems
| signing up.
|
| 1. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/extreme-boys-names
| klipt wrote:
| Ironically a lot of "puritan" values are now considered
| "social justice" values.
|
| See eg "shirtgate" where an astronomer was castigated by
| feminists for wearing a shirt with naked figures, on the
| basis that it was offensive to women. Ironically, the
| shirt had been given to him by a feminist woman friend
| who thought it was liberating.
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| Bullshit culture as it is.
| klipt wrote:
| Islam is almost a branch off Christianity considering
| Muhammad knew many Christians and was likely inspired by
| them. Muslims also view Jesus as a holy person.
| [deleted]
| FlowNote wrote:
| Nope, this is pure dishonesty manifest.
|
| Islam throws gays off of buildings and beheads women.
| Christian city made you sad one time because your Dad
| made you go to Church.
|
| Your hopes to prevent analysis of moral arbitrage is
| nothing more than cheerleader cherry-picking.
| jorblumesea wrote:
| > Which you could easily manually eyeball to make sure there
| weren't obvious false positives?
|
| Implying devs test their code thoroughly. lol. After working at
| numerous companies (some with high bars of entry) I've noticed
| many devs push changes without testing properly. Or, if they
| test, they rarely consider edge cases or implications of what
| they're doing and only test the obvious base cases.
| clSTophEjUdRanu wrote:
| I had a friend named Hung Wang who was pissed Microsoft
| wouldn't let him make that his gamertag.
|
| "I'm so sorry my name is offensive!"
| somebodythere wrote:
| I have a friend named Aryan who was not allowed to sign up
| for a Microsoft account with that name. Support even refused
| to make the exception when asked, suggesting that he sign up
| with the name "Ryan" instead.
|
| To this day, emails from that account have "Ryan <lastname>"
| in the header.
| hysan wrote:
| And my name was filtered by Spectrum, who at the time was the
| only ISP in my area. Made chat support incredibly difficult
| whenever I had to type in my name. Explaining why I wrote it with
| spaces with an explanation to remove which spaces was quite the
| test in reading comprehension apparently. Especially funny was
| when the customer support tried to type it back to confirm only
| to see nothing! Confused them even though I just explained why I
| was doing it!
|
| I hope to one day be able to see the feature spec and QA that led
| to these types of hiccups.
| rdiddly wrote:
| Tell me again why anybody cares? Is it because the Church is so
| central to our lives? We're masters of rationality and
| technology, who believe in a retributive super-ape in the sky?
|
| Is it because we're medieval scribes and we really want to use
| the Latin _faeces_ to indicate our scholarly intentions, instead
| of the Anglo-Saxon _shit_ that everyone around us uses?
|
| There is no reason I can think of that comports with a
| technological or innovative worldview.
|
| Including cybersecurity. ("Shit" is just an identifier or a
| guessable string with 13 bits of "chaos" completely equivalent to
| "Dave" or "Phil.")
|
| Edit: Well I see small-minded superstitious dunderheads have
| shown up to downvote me, so FUCK CUNT SHIT ASS
| FlowNote wrote:
| And not a Dang in sight. Imagine that.
| falcor84 wrote:
| Words have meanings. These particular words have offensive
| meanings, in the sense of them being used to intentionally
| offend others. There's no word I'm aware of that is only ever
| used to offend and they all have (and generally have stated
| with) inoffensive meanings.
|
| In pretty much every community, we seek to reduce the friction
| between members, and as a part of that, different communities
| would often choose a point on that chance-to-offend spectrum
| and discourage use of anything more (potentially) offensive
| than that point. Despite myself generally preferring more open
| (and more offensive communities), I find it very rational for
| others to set the bar at other points.
| techslave wrote:
| These are names. not words.
| rdiddly wrote:
| Sure, agreed, and Lyft's apparent priorities are a big part
| of why I'm not in a relationship with them or part of their
| "community" (read: "customer base." _Community_ is a lie and
| therefore offensive, despite being totally a "clean" word...
| great and unexpected example... I digress).
|
| Edit: sorry, digressed so far that I forgot to finish. By
| "priorities" I mean, Lyft, pull your people off of pointless
| projects like messing with people's identities, and put them
| on QA of basic functionality like accepting a credit card
| payment via your website. Last and only time I tried it, it
| failed utterly. Now I don't know how much anti-sales other
| people need to de-persuade them before they'll not-buy, but
| in my case that was enough. The person for whom I was trying
| to buy a gift card, got something nicer with a lifecycle that
| doesn't burn such an obscene/offensive quantity of fossil
| fuels.
| allovernow wrote:
| FromSoft has a similar problem with totally inane censorship of
| names in online play in the Dark Souls series. E.G. you would
| think they'd whitelist the word "knight" in a game about knights,
| but it's always censored to k __*ht. There 's some other wacky
| stuff going on but in this case I don't quite blame them because
| the devs probably don't speak English natively or at all, and you
| can tell they had a tight budget/schedule.
| donmcronald wrote:
| Clbuttic
| dathinab wrote:
| It's always funny (not) when companies don't slice realize that
| there is a certain overlap between "bad" words and last names
| (many because of a shift over time wrt. What words are bad, and
| differences between languages and dialects).
| jklein11 wrote:
| Maybe the Danes are on to something here.
|
| https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-strict-name-laws-of-...
| jFriedensreich wrote:
| The US has a serious problem with saying normal things like fuck,
| cunt and shit. I find it extremely offensive to hear beeps in
| series and even the verge author self censors his article.
| Fucking stop being hypocrites.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| teh_klev wrote:
| Twitter seems to filter through the prism of US standards of
| speech. Woe betide you if you're Scottish and use the word
| cunt. In Scotland there's quite a lot of nuance in the usage of
| cunt. In fact I go so far as to say that the use of "profane"
| language is a bit of an art form in Scotland, but sadly not
| appreciated by our Facebook and Twitter overlords.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCmFg4xIPI
| nkrisc wrote:
| You're offended by the beeps? Well now you now how the people
| offended by those words feel.
|
| Edit: People seem to think I'm offended by those words. I'm
| not.
| teh_klev wrote:
| They're just words. You can always turn the TV off.
|
| See also:
|
| https://youtu.be/78OevDyH7-Y?t=187
| nkrisc wrote:
| I'm not offended by words. I was just talking about other
| people.
| [deleted]
| TigeriusKirk wrote:
| What happens with towns like Cumming, GA?
| m0zg wrote:
| There are a lot of Dicks around, if you pardon the pun. On a more
| salient note, why the fuck would Lyft try to censor language in
| the first place? Is there a point after which you're _too_ woke
| for your own good? It's OK to have an "offensive" name.
| ceejayoz wrote:
| The good old Scunthorpe problem.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
| llarsson wrote:
| How do they not realize what an obvious shitstorm this will
| cause?
|
| And who is bothered by this, really?
|
| I find it hard to imagine that it's the drivers calling
| themselves Dick Cummings out of immaturity. So what does it
| really matter what the customers call themselves?
| jamestimmins wrote:
| From my experience building filters, this is one of the most
| frustrating tasks in software development, because getting it
| right is thankless and highly contextual, and if you get it
| wrong, the results are obvious.
|
| Edit: Actually, it's worse bc if you get it wrong you open up
| your employer to getting called out for cultural insensitivity.
| _wldu wrote:
| You can never get this 'right' and trying to is a waste of
| time and money. Words are just words. Trying to police what
| words a person has in their name, username, email, etc. is
| wrong and has unintended consequences. What's inappropriate
| to these 'decision makers' is actually the given names of
| some of their users.
|
| You should never try to define 'appropriate language' and
| then impose your definition of that on to the world.
| Especially if you want to do business.
| cmdshiftf4 wrote:
| >I find it hard to imagine that it's the drivers calling
| themselves Dick Cummings out of immaturity. So what does it
| really matter what the customers call themselves?
|
| That was my thought too. It's one thing if you're using
| obscenity in an anonymous online alias, as a great many
| Redditors seem to love doing, but I'm struggling to believe
| that it's something people do in signing up for real-life ride-
| sharing apps, either as a driver or rider.
|
| Obviously there must be some amount of people doing it,
| otherwise Lyft wouldn't bother with this at all, but it's just
| so... _unexpected_.
| jasonjei wrote:
| My last name "Hung" was blocked by Apple's Genius Bar at one
| point when they displayed the names queue on the digital board.
| They don't like certain methods of Chinese romanization
| (particularly the one used in Taiwan).
| jamestimmins wrote:
| Patio11 has a good post about this topic from 10 years ago.
| https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
|
| As a programmer, it's difficult how little of the world follows
| consistent "rules" that you need to build straightforward
| conditional logic.
|
| Really, the only surprising thing is that Lyft didn't cross this
| bridge years ago.
| minimaxir wrote:
| It seems like tech companies have been doing DIY profanity
| filters. Apple has a profanity filter for engraving text onto a
| device in the online store
| (https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1213188371452841984 );
| intended to be your name, so terms like "Dick" have to not be
| filtered.
|
| I learnt that Apple has a validation endpoint. Since the
| engraving service was recently updated, I took a profanity
| wordlist and checked it against the endpoint just for fun. The
| results are...counterintuitive: https://pastebin.com/mzpECiQw
| (NSFW language, obviously)
| rubyn00bie wrote:
| A bit of a tangent but you reminded me-- and maybe, I'm totally
| full of shit or like my memory is wrong, but the iPhone
| predicting profanity was my favorite feature. For YEARS it
| would never write "duck" instead of "fuck," and generally was
| great, but then (and this is the like maybe I'm totally wrong
| part) after Jobs passed away that stopped completely... and now
| I get this bullshit I have to fucking correct all the time (I
| have had to set up shortcuts to prevent it from fixing my
| profanity).
|
| I can't imagine Jobs putting up with trying to swear at someone
| over text and repeatedly getting "ducking."
| unlinked_dll wrote:
| iOS autocorrect has always been terrible, it's not exclusive
| to profanity. Both in terms of its performance and
| experience. Its incredibly frustrating to use when it
| autocorrects words 3-4 words later, and navigating text
| fields has become significantly more difficult on recent
| versions of iOS.
|
| Android is the superior experience in almost every UX
| category imo, and text handling is the best example of that.
|
| sent from my iPhone.
| bradleyankrom wrote:
| For the life of me I cannot get "may" to stop
| autocorrecting to "May"
| rubyn00bie wrote:
| Yeah, the whole "replace a block of text" auto-correct can
| be a fucking nightmare, but I personaly haven't had bad
| performance. Maybe I'm just not remembering it... or I'm
| not thinking of all the uses cases.
|
| On Android the latency of the screen has always bothered me
| when typing so much I can't notice anything else, but I
| haven't had a high-end Android device in years where that
| could be remedied (I was very tempted by the OnePlus 7 but
| didn't want to fork over the cash just to try).
| ben_w wrote:
| The profanity filter in the Apple App Store was [0] amusingly
| wrong, but fortunately also a soft filter rather than a hard
| filter.
|
| What happened was, the German localisation of the app
| description included the word "Knopf". Knopf is not a rude
| word, according to any German I've discussed this with -- it is
| one translation of "knob" in the sense of "button", but Apple's
| naughty word detector clearly thought it was "knob" in the
| sense of the euphemism for a body part.
|
| It didn't stop the app passing review, but the automatic
| warning was still a regular part of updates for that particular
| app.
|
| [0] Back in 2012
| reaperducer wrote:
| I wonder if there are any Knopf titles in the Apple Books
| app.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf
| userbinator wrote:
| I've seen "schwanz" (tail) more commonly used as the
| euphemism for the body part.
| dathinab wrote:
| Honestly if filter try to filter out euphemisms all is lost
| because:
|
| 1. People who use them for that just come up with new ones
| all the time
|
| 2. People still use the word in the regular sense, like would
| I now have to come up with a euphemisms to describe a door
| knob ?!
|
| 3. How I wore is my decision. As long as I don't hurry anyone
| intentionally or knowingly no person and even less company
| had the (moralic) right to constraint me. (Through wrt.
| Minirs, Y least younger ones, their parents opinion matters,
| too.)
| danso wrote:
| The Apple endpoint, inconsistent as it was, was a little more
| permissive than I expected. At least compared to something like
| the Sony Playstation ID filter; for example, 'hitler' is fine
| for Apple, whereas Sony seems to block out any ID containing
| the literal string of 'hitle', e.g. `hitle123987` [0].
| Meanwhile, Apple manages to block some of the more esoteric
| sexual profanity that Sony's filter can miss, e.g. `bunghole`.
|
| [0] curl -X POST
| https://accounts.api.playstation.com/api/v1/accounts/onlineI...
| -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d
| '{"onlineId":"hitle123987","reserveIfAvailable":true}'
| zeta0134 wrote:
| I'm still trying to work out what Sony's filter doesn't like
| about my username (zeta0134) which I've had for ages. The
| first bit is just the letter "z" in Spanish; there's no
| deeper meaning. To my knowledge it's not considered offensive
| in Spanish, but Sony would _not_ let me have it no matter how
| many variations I tried. Maybe there 's some political thing
| I'm not aware of?
|
| Anyway, I switched languages and I'm "zed0134" on their
| network. The whole thing struck me as a bit odd.
| somehnguy wrote:
| Maybe something related to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas
|
| ? Seems like a poor reason but most profanity filters are
| inconsistent as hell anyway so its possible.
| Gibbon1 wrote:
| > what Sony's filter doesn't like about my username
| (zeta0134)
|
| I can explain that one to you.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas
| danso wrote:
| That's very interesting. I just called their endpoint:
| curl -d '{"onlineId":"zeta0134","reserveIfAvailable":true}'
| \ -X POST https://accounts.api.playstation.com/api
| /v1/accounts/onlineIds \ -H "Content-Type:
| application/json"
|
| And got a response indicating that the name was both valid
| (i.e. not "improper") and available. Maybe at one
| particular time the word was flagged, but I can't imagine
| why.
|
| edit: As other repliers have said, I _did_ think that it
| could have something to do with Los Zetas, and maybe that
| was the case in the past. However, as of now, `zeta0134`,
| `zetas0134`, and `loszetas0134` are all valid and available
| names, according to the endpoint.
|
| Interestingly, `pabloescobar0134` _is_ considered improper.
| However, `elchapo0134` is _not_ - which supports the
| argument that Sony 's blacklist is (obviously) manually
| curated and perhaps subject to change. Maybe enough people
| who wanted "Zeta" complained for Sony to realize it was a
| word that had many more uses than in Los Zetas
| okasaki wrote:
| Possibly because of the Mexican drug cartel?
| [deleted]
| dspig wrote:
| Los Zetas?
| Havoc wrote:
| Bit of a dick move
| cs702 wrote:
| I hereby propose the term "AS" for _Artificial Stupidity_ : The
| use of software to automate obviously stupid behavior.
|
| Sample usage: "AS is sometimes an unintended result obtained when
| insanely smart people work with vast resources on very complex
| problems for long periods of time."
| soulofmischief wrote:
| I got randomly "banned" from nexus mods two months ago because
| they forced a password change, which wouldn't proceed because it
| said my name wasn't allowed. Apparently having "fucker" in your
| name is against the community guidelines for a website which lets
| you download adult content such as hyperviolent and hypersexual
| game mods. I've also had this account for almost a decade. I
| ended up getting in quite a spat with customer support until they
| stopped responding.
|
| I expect I will be receiving a similar notification from Lyft
| soon as the email address I am registered with definitely has a
| name which would incorrectly trigger this algorithm.
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