Reddit says a bug is letting slurs get added to its links - The Verge
Reddit says a bug is letting slurs get added to its links - The Verge
Some of the links are appearing prominently on Google.
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
63There's a fine line between 'bug' and 'oversight' and just about every time people are using 'bug' to not look incompetent.
49Which is funny, because every decision over at reddit has demonstrated they're fucking incompetent.
11If you want to be pedantic about it, every bug is an oversight
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Lol I saw that yesterday on a google search and literally thought it must be some kind of custom lemmy instance that mocked the UI and URL, too funny
24Slur? The article seems to say it's just the word "fuck"
Are people still shocked by stupid shit like profanity? I was expecting racial slurs or something actually bad...
22The word in question is not "fuck". It's "faggоt".
[And before someone complains: the above is an instance of metalinguistic usage of a word. It's morally OK as you're using the word to refer to itself, instead of using the word to convey any discourse that would target a marginalised group.]
18Oooohhhhhhhhh. I completely forgot about that "f-word" and appreciate you not beating around the bush like the article did.
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It's a US based company. "US" is short for Ultrareligious States.
8Ahh yes where in some states, rapeing little girls and marrying them off, so the child whose abortion is considered criminal, can grow up with a mom and dad, is endorsed by the "devout Christians"
8Or
Un-Satan
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the f slur is different from the f word
4figuresfigasWow, I can't believe I almost slurred a hard R there!
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It's not the same thing, but my immediate thought was Something Awful's load bearing slur which broke logins when removed.
21?
4Details:
On January 1, 2020, Lowtax changed a setting so that unregistered users could not see the forum index. Anyone not logged in would be given the banpage because of '=' in place of '==' in a section of the code. This led to discovery of an ancient bit of radium code that changed 'unregistered user' to a homophobic slur. Jeffrey fixed the bug, but this load bearing slur will live on forever.
While details are scarce at this point, my best assumption as to what happened hinges on the idea that non-logged-in users with a presumed username string value of
unregistered userwere meant to be forwarded to the login page, but because a separate section of the code changed the string value ofunregistered userto[homophobic slur here], hence nobody actually got the correct forwarding and they were all sent by default to the ban page. If I recall, this led to the unintended side effect of non-logged-in users being unable to log in.@favrion@lemmy.world @KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz @Klear@lemmy.world
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Story time?
3Clarify?
1Yeah what
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Is "fuck" really a slur? I didn't think slur was the right word for swears.
14Verge's editorial standards may discourage printing out the f-word in question, but following the links shows it to be the f-word for homosexual, not the f-word for copulation.
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Reddit can die.
7Oh no. Somehow the code allows people to speak their minds uncensored.
This is a massive threat to democracy.
-13If all you want to say is slurs, maybe you don't deserve it.
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