Guild Wars 2

I’m not entirely sure this is the right place to post this but here goes:

I’d like Anet’s forum staff to consider adding the word “cancer” to their profanity filter. Such illness is truly terrible and everyone who ever suffered through it or had someone close to them suffer from it knows how bad it is.

Why this word, and not every other disease?

Because other diseases haven’t been made into a “trend” word such as “toxic”, “scrub”, “pug” and whatnot. If they had it would be just as compelling, probably.

Before someone argues it: yes, i am a bit oversensitive about it because reasons, as it stands however the word is used all too often (“this X is a cancer to the game”, “that Y was so bad it gave me cancer”) and i cannot think of a single way to use it constructively on a game forum discussion.

Why would this word be considered bad…out my morbid curiosity it seems your delving into words far too much.

To say this subject for example is cancerous and leads to the outright restriction of the upper tier of linguistics would not be far off.

If you don’t get what i’m saying here it’s as simple as this, just because you interpreted the societal meaning of a word doesn’t make it the real meaning. Restricting it based on the societal norm is a slippery slope that will lead to us having less and less words to chose from. That in and of itself is a bad idea.

Odd, I noticed that word was filtered out not long after the original post above. Maybe some more filtering is being done…or adjusted.

If the filter can objectively decide when a word is used in an acceptable context, why does it still filter phrases like ‘okittennowledgement’ or ‘specifikittenil’?

I do see the contraction before it and some other formerly filtered out combinations now are allowed. Yay!

Thank you for your answer and for actually taking time to discuss it Gaile, regardless of what the outcome would have been your attention is appreciated.

@TexZero: the word itself isn’t bad, it’s just that at some point it became a trend to use it in ways that are less than appropiate. It could have been any other word but it was this one.