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Unscheduled Minor Patch - October 20, 2016
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Whether I'm cool with curse words or not, given the option I'd disable this filter any day just so half the conversation doesn't turn into me and my friends trying to figure out which word(s) were censored when we said something that was wrongfully detected.
As far as I can tell they're not even using regex to detect the banned words, they're just stripping messages of certain characters like punctuation and spaces and then check if any of the banned words are found inside the string. And if regex is actually used, then that's a bad way to utilize it.
My mother taught me how to swear in Spanish (and a little bit in French) when I was in kindergarten. That doesn't mean I went around using the words and phrases myself. The point is, regardless of whether something is a curse or not in any language, if it's in the middle of one word or happens to be formed by someone's sentence structure (i.e. "thought it," "can all," etcetera), it shouldn't be censored as it makes communicating even without curse words be extremely difficult, and in some cases, nearly impossible. Guildmates of mine often have to say their sentences one word at a time to avoid them being huge masses of asterisks.
@Klara
So, to reiterate what everyone causing backlash against the reinstatement of the chat filter has been trying to put across: it is not about being able to swear. Sure people were going nuts with it, but it's no different than someone going out to a bar and getting utterly hammered when they turn 21; it's because it's something new they can do, so they're going wild with it. Just like the nasty hangover telling a person "maybe I shouldn't do this that often," the excitement would wear off after approximately a week at most, and everyone would've went back to talking like normal.
All everyone wants is to have a conversation with their friends or their guildmates, or even strangers, without having to fear the other party will not understand what they were trying to say as masses of it had been censored. We just want to be able to communicate.
@AKradian - I agree a whitelist is not a good solution to an overeager blacklist. Instead the algorithm does need to be refined greatly (as well as the blacklist should be shortened significantly).
And what really confuses me is the damn filter on these forums. Some (rather a lot actually) words/phrases that are censored in game are perfectly fine here. So why can't that same list be applied in game? Also, the approach of just deleting words on the blacklist (as happens in this forum) instead of just asterisking them out for everyone except the person who typed them is a better approach (though not much better)
They should just do the bare minimum to cover their ass about being a familyfriendly game. People will bypass it if they really want to, people have always found ways to bypass it. But this way we wouldn't have to try and bypass the filter daily when trying to convey something entirely harmless. I have to have tiddies and anal on my mind all day just so I can remember to bypass it to use regular sentences.
Just wanna know if you guys will occasionally bring it back the ip block and wait til merge to be finished...
About your bar example, not everyone partakes in that sort of culture. There are people aware of the dangers and health risks so there's no interest in trying it out for the first time if it's going to have a negative effect either to the individual or to others with their unconscious actions. Same with choosing not to swear due to self control and consideration.
The question remains unanswered.