Guild Wars 2

C’mon, ANet – this kitten filter is getting a bit out of hand. Since when is a 4-letter word, beginning with “H” and ending with “D” (The opposite of “soft”) a “naughty” word? Might we tweak the system to recognize bypass attempts and inflection of text somewhat?

Hmm? Hard works quite well for me

Only thing I can think of is that you said Hard and then One and it took it as a bypass attempt. The filter is a bit annoying in deciphering text when it makes a goof, but I enjoy seeing the replacement word “kitten”.

@Mistro:
Considering what post I made when that happened, yer probably right. Which is still wacky as heck. I would hope they eventually tune it to recognize spacing in sentences.
Although, preferrably: I’d love it if the filter were user-side removable, like the one for
in-game chat. /shrug

Advent.6193:

@Mistro:
Considering what post I made when that happened, yer probably right. Which is still wacky as heck. I would hope they eventually tune it to recognize spacing in sentences.
Although, preferrably: I’d love it if the filter were user-side removable, like the one for
in-game chat. /shrug

Not really sure how you can consider that strange, since otherwise it would be very easy to bypass.

Regardless, I don’t agree that users should be able to turn it off locally. This is a place for civil discourse, and though the meaning of various kittens is usually clear, allowing users to simply ignore the filter without receiving any feedback or knowing what the filter is doing to their text is hardly an ideal environment for communication. In a worst-case scenario where meanings actually aren’t clear, users could be flamed for having the filter on and therefore being unable to understand “kittens should kitten kitten.”

If any change is made, it should be the same for everyone, even if that change is removal.