PSA: Do not report particular instances overzealous chat or ship name censorship

[Mephane]

They will only whitelist the individual words, not fix the underlying issues:

• The filter implementation does not respect word boundaries, is overzealous and uses a list of "forbidden" words that is ludicrously extensive (literally the world "ball" is censored).
• There is no client-side toggle for it.

By reporting individual instances of filtered words, all they are going to do is add that specific word to their whitelist. Now with the filter being extended to chat, this issue is more pressing than ever. We need a true solution, which means at the minimum a toggle, ideally also (but not only; toggle should be considered mandatory) a better implementation of the algorithm itself.

Instead, whenever we encounter something being filtered that clearly should not, we should report the absense of The Toggle to turn that feature off.

 

[Kaocraft]

+1 on that. Somehow the game functioned just fine up till now without ludicrous near-random censorship of chat. Those of us who somehow managed to survive this dark age ought to have the option to disable the filter. By all means keep it enabled by default so that new players don't die of a heart attack when they read the word "ball," but at least give us the choice.

 

[Riverside]

The player block function will always block chat from that player, and will attempt to not matchmake you with that player again (other rules may take precedence).

By use of the block function these less polite chatters will then receive complaints from their fellow players that because so many are blocking them for their blue language, instancing is being disrupted and will therefore motivate them to talk in a more considerate fashion or not play.

Please advocate using the block function and advertise that you are doing it in as public a way as you can, turning this into a self-solving community based solution rather than one that taxes FDev's support staff.

 

[Han Zulu]

I think **** and ***** , but ***** ***** **** . And that's all I ******* to say.

 

[Hacker#451563]

Yes, yes. + all round.

When someone buys this game they will use a CC or such like (only available to adults), if it's bought for a child then the adult can see it's an on-line game and people will talk to each other. If that's so terrible then the adult should not buy a game for their child that can have interaction with real players.

Treating me like a snowflake will turn me into a seal clubber out of rage.

 

[Shiro Akai]

Oh the good 'ol days of original Fallout 1 and 2. With all that stuff that falls under 21+ category. Now we have political correctness and other decide what is right and what is wrong, essentially thinking for you. I'm really upset when someone decides for me. No toggle option is a crime. I'm an adult and i have full rights to decide whether I want to see profanities or not.

Not to mention real hypocrisy. You can buy and sell people - human trafficking. You can shoot skimmers - destruction of property. You can scoop material - unlicensed natural resource acquisition, theft (if from wreckage). You can shoot and pirate traders - piracy and assault. You can shoot and kill targets - assassination and murder.

All good and fair. But saying "Bucky Ball" is forbidden for it may corrupt minors...

I wait for game bans dor chat misbehave. Recently I saw one youtuber to be banned for punching in a face a female NPC, in a game that revolves around violence.

 

[Aashenfox]

Not to mention real hypocrisy. You can buy and sell people - human trafficking. You can shoot skimmers - destruction of property. You can scoop material - unlicensed natural resource acquisition, theft (if from wreckage). You can shoot and pirate traders - piracy and assault. You can shoot and kill targets - assassination and murder.

But, but! THere's no blood!

I completely agree with you. Great post.

 

[babelfisch]

How about getting rid of the filter completely? If someone uses foul / abusive / insulting language we can report him. Being reported three times would get your chat and ship naming rights revoked for a month, in extreme cases they should ban the entire account. Should be a little bit more effort for support but I'd say it's worth it, first because it would fix the not working filter and second because it would remove people from the game who don't have a place in this community.

 

[Hacker#451563]

How about getting rid of the filter completely? If someone uses foul / abusive / insulting language we can report him. Being reported three times would get your chat and ship naming rights revoked for a month, in extreme cases they should ban the entire account. Should be a little bit more effort for support but I'd say it's worth it, first because it would fix the not working filter and second because it would remove people from the game who don't have a place in this community.

Too sensible.
Dosen't annoy enough people.
A snowflake might get their fee-fee's hurt and need counseling.

Take your pick.

 

[Drelthar]

PSA: Please riot until they stop this hideous trash and allow us to toggle the filter off.

 

[Bryan K]

+1. FDev are in for a real ****storm if they don’t give us a toggle by the time this hits live.

 

[Mephane]

+1. FDev are in for a real ****storm if they don’t give us a toggle by the time this hits live.

None other than FD have any numbers about how many people even play the beta, or peruse the forums, but probably both are a small fraction of the whole player base. A lot of people are in for a hell of a surprise when this goes live as is.

 

[Kenneth McGrew]

+1. FDev are in for a real ****storm if they don’t give us a toggle by the time this hits live.

thisstorm? are we allowed anagrams? we can play countdown while in space

"of course it was Tampering"

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

with this filters,
i am eagerly waiting to accept my first buttbuttination mission
and when im not able to talk about my buttinal (omg, its alredy filtered here on the forums!) of weapons fitted onto T10

 

[CMDR CPT. Boris]

Fdev should change the pegi rating from 7 to 18 and case closed
... we are almost all dinosaurs playing this game anyway

 

[Ian Skippy]

Too sensible.
Dosen't annoy enough people.
A snowflake might get their fee-fee's hurt and need counseling.

Take your pick.

Can you stop with the 'snowflake' ranting about non-existent people? Nobody asked for this, there is no scary group of 'other people' being scared of the word 'ball'. This is just some corporate screw-up that needs fixed.

 

[zimms]

Currently the censoring isn't overzealous, it's outright broken.

 

[lokvette]

As per the norm. FD give with one hand and take with the other.

 

[Screemonster]

The alternative is to just flood them with every word. Every. Single. Word.

They have the choice of adding a client-side toggle for the filter, fixing the filter, or else their support staff ending up being flooded until the entire oxford english dictionary is in the whitelist.

 

[Drelthar]

The alternative is to just flood them with every word. Every. Single. Word.

They have the choice of adding a client-side toggle for the filter, fixing the filter, or else their support staff ending up being flooded until the entire oxford english dictionary is in the whitelist.

Considering 90% of "naughty words" are in the Oxford dictionary.... well..

(Also they'd probably use Cambridge )