Profanity Filter Meets Michelle

Description

The image shows a form field labeled "First name" with the value "Michelle" typed into a rectangular input box. Under the field, a red validation message says "cannot contain bad word: hell". Beneath that is a comment-style reaction from "dingdongyouarewrong:" saying "are you shitting me". The technical joke is a classic content-filtering false positive: the validator performs naive substring matching and flags the harmless name Michelle because it contains "hell".

Common Tags

InputValidation FalsePositive ContentFiltering UXFailures SoftwareBugs ErrorMessages BugsInSoftware DataValidation DataValidationRules DeveloperHumor EdgeCase ContentModeration StringHandlingLibraries RegularExpressions

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Some regex saw `Mic[hell]e` and decided the user needed an exorcism, not an account.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Some regex saw `Mic[hell]e` and decided the user needed an exorcism, not an account.
Deleted Account 5y

i'm pretty fucking far from okay
1. @Yxolor 5y
  
  ок
@Dolfost 5y

yes, im fine, thanks.
@the_cash_network 5y

Try registering an SSL certificate with Geotrust with somewhere the combination "Iran" in your domain.. it will fail as well
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  Gov sanctions is one thing and insane filtering of people names is another
  
  @Araalith 5y
  
  Its not about the sanctions. Its about developer's skills.
@the_cash_network 5y

Sucks to have a name with Miranda then ;-)
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  :DDD
@FunnyGuyU 5y

This is a pretty common surname :)
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
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