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I'm Richard and cannot even type my own nickname

Yeah these efforts always fall flat. Buttbuttination is my favorite example.

It flabbergasts me to find out that, by 2018 [1], people who are making decisions apparently still hadn't figured out that attempting to censor things (including people's names, of all things) using substring matching doesn't work and is a bad idea.

I mean... I understand that when we were experimenting with things on the internet in 1996 that might have come as a surprise because, you know, you just don't think of everything. But 25 years later?

[1] some of the examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#Other_examp...

Yes, that's a clbuttic.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-

That was 12 years ago, and sadly the Google link to searching for the word now links to countless articles about the phenomenon, instead of actual examples (I gave up after the 5th page.) Several years ago I could still find them, I remember there being an entire mailing list that was censored in that way.

I did manage to find one example that was saved by the Web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20080725103641/http://www.bluegra...

Amusingly enough, the spelling of the original word became very easy to remember after seeing that, and the phrase that I made up to keep that was "two asses in a nation".

Who goes by Dick these days? Seems like a 50s era nickname. I'm also a Richard.

I would've expected Dick to go the way of the Adolf.

I'm not making this up: the head of my high school was called Richard, but was known to (adults) by your nickname.

Same, but s/high/elementary/

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