Bad word filter
“Chat swear filters”
-None-
-Normal-
-High-
-Kitten-
-Bork bork bork-
I want to be able to see people swear.
I’d settle for a bit more context recognition in the filter. Right now it looks for letter strings and blocks them even if they are a completely innocent part of a word.
For example, in some chatter in game another person used the word “reputation.” If that is filtered here, it is rep utation. There is a bad Spanish word in the middle, yes … but really, getting “re——tion” in chat is a bit much. I had to go to No Filter rather than Normal because of that.
In this forum, I saw someone forget a space between two words. “Whom realize,” when mushed together, becomes “kittenalize.” (heck, it became it anyway when I correctly said Who not Whom) Back in the years when I frequented Blizzard’s forums, one could not use scrape (scr ape), grape (gr ape), rapel (ra pel), etc. Mind you, I absolutely campaign against casual use of the word for violent forcing of women (just ask any guildie of mine through the years), but completely innocent words have those four letters embedded.
So, however computer magic is done, enhancing the intelligence of the filter would help tons.
Mine is completely disabled…Maybe since I’m not a native english speaker I don’t get offended by anything in english xD but from what I remember when it was on from default it only hid the words with an “——” can’t remember if that was the heavy or the moderate filter though but it was very hard to understand what that person meant by that.
I think two levels of profanity filter are more than enough:
-The high is for when parents let their kids play
-Adults get to decide whether they want a filter or not (Normal/None)
I don’t see a need for Arenanet to further concern themselves with this issue.
I think two levels of profanity filter are more than enough:
-The high is for when parents let their kids play
-Adults get to decide whether they want a filter or not (Normal/None)I don’t see a need for Arenanet to further concern themselves with this issue.
Then “normal” setting needs major adjustment because it gets words few people would consider bad.
I don’t get offended by occasional swearing. I do not care to see tirades from people that happen periodically though. Sure, I can block them, but that’s after it started. I have noticed that the population here seems a little more respectful than in some other games, especially free ones.
I want kitten! I intentionally kitten perfectly kitten words with the kitten kitten in my kittens because I think it is kitten!
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I don’t use the chat filter but I might reconsider if "kitten"s were an option.
This thread feels so deja vu.