WP's robot check thinks a hovercraft is a boat

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Wrong Planet's robot check thing apparently thinks a hovercraft is a boat.
It failed me since I didn't say a hovercraft is a boat.

If a hovercraft is a boat why does the US Coast Guard, who one would presume by definition know a boat when they see one, discuss their hovercraft in their aviation section?
https://cgaviationhistory.org/1970-eval ... conducted/

and then let me ask you this, hovercraft self-propel themselves on land using the same drive components it does on water, how many boats self-propel themselves on land using the very same components with which they propel themselves in water?

(edit - and yes, I do know about amphibs, Dad was on LST 1126, Snohomish County)
amphibs are also not boats, they are amphibians, which, oddly enough, is why they are called amphibians instead of boats

And then there's,
"Dude, you are asking an ASPIE if a hovercraft is a boat & expecting them to say boat - take a couple steps back and think that through!! !"

They also say to find bicycles, but show tricycles, tandems and even a triplet!

Next thing ya know it will be insisting you tell it bacon is pork chops.

A capital crime.

The robot check here is crap and weird. It seems to only check me if I have too many quotes in a post, and you have to look at not one but TWO pictures, and after you done it it says "bad request", so you have to go all the way back to your post and resubmit, then it accepts your post. It takes several moments of my precious time, people! Just like the unskippable 20-second ads on YouTube! Those 20 seconds feel longer than 20 seconds!! !

I've tried to figure out ways around it, but haven't quite gotten there yet. I'm not sure exactly what triggers it.
Certain blacklisted words, I would assume?

It guards us from spammers by hassling us ONLY when we do NOT act like spammers.

A spammer would never respond to a thread. Only start a thread with an original post. And a spammer would never use the quote feature on another post.

But I never get hassled when making an original post, and ONLY get hassled when quoting someone on an existing thread.

Captcha is still running ... ?  Wow!

In my experience I've only suspected a trigger word once. It's mostly longer posts with lots of BB code formatting [ ] that sets it off.

Longer posts with lots of quotation marks will trigger the "robot check."

What Joe90 said...except she didn't mention a magnifying glass. I have old eyes and the things I'm supposed to find in those pictures are little.


It is not the only WP robot that has picked on me recently, though.

Mountain Goat started this bit of silliness in the "Television, Film, and Video" category. dragonsanddemons beat me to a Doctor Who reference so I tried to do a Max Headroom reference. The censor robot pounced on the punchline:

The Bryce Lynch institute thinks it can produce an automated polywater cracker.
Apparently misinterpreting my ambiguous reference to a food item/industrial construct as being an offensive slang term. (I don't know if the word "lynch" being in the same sentence was a contributing factor.)

Background info:
-- There is no such thing as "polywater." Back in the 60's someone thought they'd discovered a new form of water with strange properties--it turned out what they had really discovered was impurities in their lab equipment caused confusion.
-- "Bryce Lynch" was a character in Max Headroom who, in the first episode, created a computer-simulated, virtual parrot.
-- And, at least to me, "polywater cracker" sounds like "Polly want a cracker".

Last edited by Cornflake on 21 May 2021, 11:04 am, edited 1 time in total.: Please don't attempt to bypass the auto-censor

Hmm, I'll have to test that out next time it pops up. Thanks.

testing testing

polywater cracker

I didnt expect THAT!

I posted the phrase "polywater cracker" to see if it would trigger the Captcha (in reference to Double Retired's post). .

It did not.

But it DID "bleep out" the word "cracker".

I guess the computer thinks of "cracker" as the White equivalent of the N word, and censors it.

Damned racist parrots!

But...a hovercraft is a modern vehicle of ambiguous affiliation. Could be called either a boat, or an aircraft. It doesnt displace water but it is usually used to cross bodies of water.

David Lynch is a polywater cracker.