What about the chat box? I don't care if you're seven, religious, easily triggered or gay. I'm going to say rude things in the chatbox, so are many others. There's even a disclaimer - "online interactions not rated by the ESRB" - to cover this kind of thing.
Ship Name Profanity Filter is Too Strict?
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What about the chat box? I don't care if you're seven, religious, easily triggered or gay. I'm going to say rude things in the chatbox, so are many others. There's even a disclaimer - "online interactions not rated by the ESRB" - to cover this kind of thing.
It`s obvious what`s happening. They are so afraid of upsetting someone, anyone, that even when they weren`t sure about a word they just censored it anyway to be on the safe side.
That`s why this nonsense happens. Too much caring about offending someone. Weak-kneed, profit seeking cowards. I guarantee 7 year olds laugh at this.
That`s why this nonsense happens. Too much caring about offending someone. Weak-kneed, profit seeking cowards. I guarantee 7 year olds laugh at this.
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THIS is how all filters should work
It would be nice to see a statistic of actual player age.
It cannot be many 7 year olds playing this game.
I'm confused now. Is it [CENSORED] or [CENSORED]?
It`s [CENSORED] , I mean [CENSORED] . Blast it, I`m gonna start swearing in a minute, oh F[CENSORED] , SH[CENSORED] , [CENSORED] ,[CENSORED] ,[CENSORED]KS!
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Reminds me of when Scottish singer Susan Doyle used the hashtag;
#susanalbumparty
To promote her new album release, I would dearly like to name my ship that.
#susanalbumparty
To promote her new album release, I would dearly like to name my ship that.
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I completely agree. Not many do I would guess. In my opinion, it's not a game for 7 year olds.
I'm not just going 'oh think of the children'. It's advertised as a PEGI7 and has been for some time. It kind of goes with the territory. I'm surprised some people are surprised - even if they're from Scun'thorpe
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Would kind of generate very bad publicity. I think you confuse fear of upsetting with a sense of responsibility? If I designed an online game and I wanted children to play, I sure as anything would feel compelled to put a filter in.
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You underestimate the general public, they really aren`t bothered about names in a computer game. Nope, fear of upsetting the loudest minorities and possible manipulation is what companies bow to. Some have even lost profits mistakenly bowing to `pc` when everyone else is tired of it (*coughMarvelcomicscough*) It`s not about responsibility. Companies do what they think makes them money.
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Sure, but FD manage to fulfil their duty around profanity in player comms in a different way: the Report a Player function. Why not in this context too?
FD do not (AFAIK) routinely monitor the contents of player voice and text comms, and thus do not enforce any profanity filtering over voice or text comms:
For voice and text comms, it is down to any offended player to use the Report a Player function, and then FD can look at chat logs and make an informed decision, with all the context to work with.
Report a Player method is better overall, because it means that even though the game is PEGI7 or w/e, adults who don't need 'protecting' are still free to carry on using normal grownup day-to-day language with their friends, without a censor hanging over their every word and beeping out bits of the conversation.
Arguments about protecting 7 year olds from bad words on ship names fall a bit flat when you consider that 7 year olds do currently see unfiltered local chat if they play in Open, and their parents would need to be using Report a Player to deal with that as it stands...
So why can't we all be as relaxed about 7 year olds seeing bad words in text elsewhere in the game (ship names), and requiring their parents to do the same exact thing they're currently expected to do about bad words in local Open chat?
But that isn't the topic here anyway, we not even talking about actual "bad words"! This is about perfectly acceptable dictionary words being censored as false-positives because of this lazy and demonstrably unnecessary profanity filter.
Just get rid of it FD, you don't have it for Chat, so why do you have it for Ship Names? ANSWER ME!! [haha]
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Thinking about it more, Reporting someone over casual, non-abusive use of profanity is such an over-reaction..
Just Blocking someone should be enough, and that's very easy now that "Block" seems to have been plastered all over the UI for Multicrew (why the assumption that we're all so precious? That's another topic..).
Now, if only we had some clarity about whether Blocking someone just cuts out their comms, or also messes with their's and other's Instancing in Open.. It's a bit of a mess.
Just Blocking someone should be enough, and that's very easy now that "Block" seems to have been plastered all over the UI for Multicrew (why the assumption that we're all so precious? That's another topic..).
Now, if only we had some clarity about whether Blocking someone just cuts out their comms, or also messes with their's and other's Instancing in Open.. It's a bit of a mess.
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My favourite was the Therapist Finder website, www.therapistfinder. That could not have gone more badly wrong!
My Cutter is named "Titan Ura**s" or "Titan Uranus" if you get close enough to read the nameplate...
Misspell it with an extra s at the end - profanity filter defeated!!!
You know what happened to Thunderchild right?
Thargoids confirmed!
Grats, this is the first time i recognised obscenity in Embassy. Kind of like that website whose filter implied the film Free Willy might possibly have to do something with a particular Harambe campaign.
This is not acceptable from the point of view of an IRL champion of common sense - hence it is very tempting for me to enlist the entire Trinitas Dissancta Aranei Mundi - in the form of a warship INV Balneatrix, exploration ship SagittariusA.cx and logistics ship INV Festum Citris - in an act of nonviolent resistance and conscientious objection to this disorderly and demeaning state of things.
This is not acceptable from the point of view of an IRL champion of common sense - hence it is very tempting for me to enlist the entire Trinitas Dissancta Aranei Mundi - in the form of a warship INV Balneatrix, exploration ship SagittariusA.cx and logistics ship INV Festum Citris - in an act of nonviolent resistance and conscientious objection to this disorderly and demeaning state of things.