Topic: Life on the Internet is Hard When Your Last Name is Butts
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #78,252
Yesterday, a writer for SB Nation named Natalie Weiner posted a screenshot of a rejection form she received when she tried to sign up for a website. Her submission was rejected because a spam algorithm considered her last name "offensive." After she posted about this, hundreds of other people with similarly "offensive" last names sounded off about how they had experienced similar issues.As it turns out, this phenomenon is so widespread that it has a name among computer scientists. It's called the Scunthorpe problem and it's been a scourge of the internet since the beginning. Motherboard spoke to content moderation experts about its origins and why it's such a hard problem to solve 20 years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Also of note: Natalie was born without a weiner and feels she should have been named Bunn.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 27 minutes later[^] [v] #913,706
Given what Antony Weiner did I'm not surprised that name has been blacklisted ??
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 19 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #913,709
@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
I am ashamed of myself for the copy pasta from another site.
Turns out the Butts is from this.
James Butts “knows these problems” and Matt Cummings has “been there.” Arun Dikshit said algorithmic bias has become almost a daily occurrence. “At one of my jobs, IT had to create a rule on email server to stop my emails from being rejected as porn spam,” said Clark Aycock.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmp9v/life-on-the-internet-is-hard-when-your-last-name-is-butts?utm_source=mbfb
My source which is a technical website also used Butts instead of Weiner. Quick look at web and cannot make a family connection between Natalie and Anthony.
She does look yummy.
I am ashamed of myself for the copy pasta from another site.
Turns out the Butts is from this.
James Butts “knows these problems” and Matt Cummings has “been there.” Arun Dikshit said algorithmic bias has become almost a daily occurrence. “At one of my jobs, IT had to create a rule on email server to stop my emails from being rejected as porn spam,” said Clark Aycock.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmp9v/life-on-the-internet-is-hard-when-your-last-name-is-butts?utm_source=mbfb
My source which is a technical website also used Butts instead of Weiner. Quick look at web and cannot make a family connection between Natalie and Anthony.
She does look yummy.