Anti-spam word

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An anti-spam word (ASW) is an obfuscated security code ("captcha") used on IAFF to prevent automated comment spam.

The anti-spam words used on IAFF used to be generic. In February 2007 Casey Serin, acting on an uncredited idea suggested by his haterz, changed them to a short list of popular IAFF catchphrases.[1][2]

Enterprising haterz on Exurban Nation soon assembled the full list:[3][4]

One can only assume that the multiple occurrences of "sweet" are an example of Casey's mad IT skillz.

Casey later expanded the anti-spam wordlist; the list reported in April 2007 was:[5]

For a short while in April, IAFF reportedly carried a handful of anti-spam words -- "pregnancy", "zygote" -- leading to speculation on a possible imminent announcement of Casey Jr.[6][7][8][9][10]. This was almost certainly a troll by Casey.

Haterz commenting on IAFF often name the anti-spam word at the bottom of their comment, for example "ASW: juicy", especially if it is particularly apposite to the comment.

The custom anti-spam words tend to confuse newbies, who often believe that the anti-spam word they're given is picked from a dictionary and so get very excited when a Caseyesque term is presented to them.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Make the anti-spam words more Caserrific..., comment by Stop! Slammatime on IAFF, February 21st 2007 at 4:54 pm
    "Is there any way you can make the anti-spam words more Caserrific? Like win-win, jamba, looser, sweet, etc. That would really add value to the blog."
  2. ↑ How about some props to us haters?..., comment by This Post Sucks on IAFF, February 28th 2007 at 9:55 am
  3. ↑ IAFF ProTips..., comment by Anonymous on EN, February 25th 2007 at 9:59 PM
  4. ↑ Here's the list of anti-spam words..., comment by addin value on EN, February 25th 2007 at 10:34 PM
  5. ↑ Here are all the ASW..., comment by Ming the Murseless on EN, April 14th 2007 1:45 PM
  6. ↑ ASW is "pregnancy"..., comment by IRS on IAFF, April 13th 2007 at 2:30 am
  7. ↑ ASW was pregnancy... comment by GameOver on EN, April 13rd 2007 at 1:23 PM
    "Mrs. GameOver submitted a comment on IAFF.com today and her ASW was pregnancy"
  8. ↑ ASW is "gamete"..., comment by IRS on IAFF, April 13th 2007 at 3:51 pm
  9. ↑ Words including "gamete" "zygote" and "pregnancy"...., comment by sid_finster on EN, April 14, 2007 at 1:59 AM
    "Casey has been changing the anti-spam code to feature words including "gamete" "zygote" and "pregnancy"."
  10. ↑ I definitely remember "gamete"..., comment by Rob Dawg on EN, May 8th 2007 at 1:19PM
    "I definitely remember "gamete" but it was gone as fast as it appeared."
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