Guild Wars 2

As a frequent forum reader (and slightly less frequent poster), it didn’t take long before I noticed the large number of ’kitten’s showing up in posts.

While I understand that something had to be done to filter out bad words, substituting ‘kitten’ all the time is clearly not the best solution.

Now on VoIP and in text chat, many of my friends/guildmates/etc… have started using ‘kitten’ in their everyday speech. As an all-purpose swear word it’s slowly but insidiously replacing all the four letter invectives I’ve come to know and love.

Some might consider all this ‘kitten’ an improvement, as ‘kitten’ is a relatively common word and used widely without censure in many domains of communication. But ’kitten’ing all over our forum posts has a darker side. as well. Too much ‘kitten’ has only made a relatively innocent word into an expletive. Soon, ANet may have to seriously consider filtering ‘kitten’ on its own forums!

By manner of solution, I suggest a random pool of words to use instead of simply ‘kitten’. It would add the spice of variety and lessen the unfortunate impact on the word ‘kitten’. I would like to see the following considered for addition to the ‘kitten’ list. In keeping with the ‘diminutive/young/cute animals’ theme, I offer:

‘puppy’,‘tadpole’,‘bunny’,‘piglet’,‘joey’,‘lamb’,‘pony’,‘panda’

Allow me to apologize in advance for the next part.

As entertaining as it is to read “What the kittening kitten is going on here?” I think it would be far more interesting to see “What the tadpoling lamb is going on here?” Or even “What the puppying piglet is going on here?”

I realize that changing the ‘kitten’ list in this manner might encourage an increase in swearing in the forums, a sort of profanity prompted ‘Mad Gabs’ game by the players. But I believe the risk is warranted to protect the against the growing ‘kitten’ malignancy.

Please consider my suggestion, for the sake of ’kitten’s everywhere.

I humbly suggest ‘quaggan’.

I suggest Pony.

1) It’s a four letter word.

2) Some parts of the net consider it tantamount to swearing.

TheDaiBish.9735:

I suggest Pony.

1) It’s a four letter word.

2) Some parts of the net consider it tantamount to swearing.

Both good points, but as you’ll note, ‘Pony’ is already in my list of suggested words

Myrkkin.7921:

TheDaiBish.9735:

I suggest Pony.

1) It’s a four letter word.

2) Some parts of the net consider it tantamount to swearing.

Both good points, but as you’ll note, ‘Pony’ is already in my list of suggested words

I must be blind then, because Ican’t see it

TheDaiBish.9735:

Myrkkin.7921:

TheDaiBish.9735:

I suggest Pony.

1) It’s a four letter word.

2) Some parts of the net consider it tantamount to swearing.

Both good points, but as you’ll note, ‘Pony’ is already in my list of suggested words

I must be blind then, because Ican’t see it

‘puppy’,‘tadpole’,‘bunny’,‘piglet’,‘joey’,‘lamb’,‘pony’,‘panda’

Myrkkin.7921:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Myrkkin.7921:

TheDaiBish.9735:

I suggest Pony.

1) It’s a four letter word.

2) Some parts of the net consider it tantamount to swearing.

Both good points, but as you’ll note, ‘Pony’ is already in my list of suggested words

I must be blind then, because Ican’t see it

‘puppy’,‘tadpole’,‘bunny’,‘piglet’,‘joey’,‘lamb’,‘pony’,‘panda’

Bah, no wonder I couldn’t see it. Phone wasn’t showing anything past lamb.

Apologies

I would go with Blizzard as a replacement but i really don’t see why it needs changed at all . If anything its a GOOD thing they are replacing their swears with kitten even if its just as a joke .

Adine.2184:

I would go with Blizzard as a replacement but i really don’t see why it needs changed at all . If anything its a GOOD thing they are replacing their swears with kitten even if its just as a joke .

Oh I’m all for replacing swear words with other words. I think it is an interesting twist. Just wishing there was more than ‘kitten’. Especially now that I hear people using ‘kitten’ as a swear word

It’s actually kind of funny now that i think of it . Iv’e been saying things like Lyssa kitten it dating back to GW 1 or oh my Lyssa as a replacement for God , kinda makes me wonder how many others have done the same .

“Kitten” is being used as a replacement for naughty words to avoid the censors? I was aware of the problem of underage children accidentally seeing kitty porn online, but I had no idea that innocent words were being use like words overheard in a cat house! What a cat-astrophe! You could hurt someone’s felines talking that way! Let’s ban ALL replacement words… the whole lot! The whole kitten-kaboodle! (I would be lion if I said I didn’t want to see other lynx to this topic.)