Why not?
Ship Name Profanity Filter is Too Strict?
- Thread starter edgar
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I would not advise children.
And by this you mean...?
That's the game filter doing that and the point of this vaguely-staying-on-topic thread.
Wow, that was a great name and the filter created obscenity from it and then inserted that obscenity into the game.
Srsly, Grasshopper is a perfect name for the DBS, but now it reads as an idiot 12-year-old attempting to be ty with their xbox handle.
tiness is being added to the game by the filter
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Like this was never gonna happen.
I remember I named all the PP characters after certain types of fruit, called Hudson the "Grapefruits" which was censored at the time. I think they fixed that on the forums so don't despair.
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Yup, fixed.
You Humans are such drama queens...
Give it time.
I remember I named all the PP characters after certain types of fruit, called Hudson the "Grapefruits" which was censored at the time. I think they fixed that on the forums so don't despair.
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Yup, fixed.
You Humans are such drama queens...
Give it time.
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It turns out the number 8008 is also censored!
Dammit, i was gonna add 135 onto the end of it...
Just got informed by another CMDR that my DBX's name has been filtered
By the way, surely someone must have by now tested whether these filters also apply to CMDR names? That they do not apply to chat messages is clear from the previous poster's screenshot where the word stays readable. Is there any chat filter at all, or is it just not as strict/dumb/over-reaching as the filter for ship names.
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This is what happens when you censor harmless things for comedic effect: http://imgur.com/r/UnnecessaryCensorship
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Wow, that was a great name and the filter created obscenity from it and then inserted that obscenity into the game.
Srsly, Grasshopper is a perfect name for the DBS, but now it reads as an idiot 12-year-old attempting to be ty with their xbox handle.
tiness is being added to the game by the filter
This is what happens when you censor harmless things for comedic effect: http://imgur.com/r/UnnecessaryCensorship
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Was about to post my own thread about this. My python, A.A.C.V Assegai (it's a type of Zulu spear) shows up as AACV***EGAI to everyone else. Not only does the filter pick up on parts of words way too sensitively, but a filtered name also loses all punctuation and spaces. Strikes me as silly.
Yes, quite clearly you don't get it. This discussion is about perfectly acceptable words being accidentally filtered because of substrings contained in them.
Unless you actually do believe children should not be allowed to see words like ambas.sador, sas.safras or as.segai. in which case you do get it, and are wrong.
You are confused.
Clearly I was replying to the post I QUOTED and not OP.
Where the poster said "Swear filters are for the mentally inadequate".
It is why I quoted it. Just like how you quoted my post so we are able to tell you are referring to my post and not the OP.
And how I quoted your post so we can tell I am replying to you.
You see?
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Saw that one yesterday :
Yup, at minimum it needs a Whitelist of some sort.
Yup, at minimum it needs a Whitelist of some sort.
Also, it doesn't even show you that it gets censored. You can type anything and see it just fine, you only learn that the name became unreadable when others tell you about it.
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It's in fact the common procedure, to have a toggle for the filter which usually just defaults to on.
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I don't quite get this argument. I mean this was marketed to people who played the original in 1984.
Some backers simply wanted a game not dumbed down for kids, and that is nothing to do with being inconsiderate to parents or their children.
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Also, I am not sure how legally binding that PEGI 7 is. I mean it gets assigned somewhat automatically, right, when the game is examined but some committee? So a developer may very well start a game with content that may rate lower than the future content they have already planned, and can't be bound forever to stick to some rating that was put on their game from the outside? Or does the process work differently?
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It's what you do with swear filters. If you provide immediate feedback people just sit there and find a way round it.
Any swear filter needs to acknowledge that it cannot stop people swearing, it's just best efforts isn't it.
Please look at the post I replied to for the context.
It was claiming anyone wanting a filter is "mentally inadequate".
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