Guild Wars 2

I feel like hate speech should have its own category on the drop-down menu. It’s a very specific issue, and I keep seeing it happen more and more frequently. This is, frankly, unacceptable. I’ve been placing it under “verbal harassment” but harassment implies repetition. Even once is too much, for hate speech.

Don’t worry bout it too much. Whenever you report, you pick the reason that you think fits best. when GM’s go over it they will use their own judgement. I think that the report option is either ‘harashment’ or ‘verbal abuse’ (cant check in game right now). Verbal abuse is something that would fit this perfectly.

I do wonder what you mean by hate speech by the way. My server has little hate speech what so ever (eu server gandara).

i simply made my own chat tab called “no-nonsence”, it only has the better part of chatting enabled, disabled general chat for starters.
ignorance is at times really bliss.

I frequently find map chat useful and/or hilarious. My home server is Tarnished Coast (NA), and there are a lot of good people there. But not everyone is like that, and I am frequently in overflow maps as well. By “hate speech” I mean terms like racial slurs, offensive language for personal sexual identity or misogynistic terms. To me, this sort of thing has become so much the norm in online gaming that people don’t often think twice about using these words. It would be nice if ANET would make it a high priority to discourage such things.