Profanity filter rework...

Just a quick post, but I recently noticed (and laughed...heavily) at the way my ship is being viewed by others. for it has a name so rude, so insulting, so unthinkable that it deserves to be called S***************S and that is...


The 'Skittle Express' (as it has 3 skittle shooting pacifiers each with their own effects...every time I squeeze the trigger my enemies taste the rainbow!! :D )

Can I just say, in what world do any of those letters resemble even a single profanity? :D

Makes me wonder how many more of my ship's have their names blurred out... I wouldn't be stretching the mark on using the word Apple or Hugs??? too offensive for some? :D :D


Skittle Express needs to be heard and seen, it is a fierce and majestic Krait Mk2... Please change the profanity filter to filter profanities only, although blurring all words appears to be effective at removing profanities, it perhaps isn't the best solution :D
 
Serves you right.

Clearly the game is telling you to rename your ship "Taste The Rainbow". :p

I've come to the conclusion that the profanity filter is just filtering everything, as to be sure it's not missing anything. :p

100% effective!
 
There are letters in it that could be possibly maybe rearranged into a profanity... If run through Google translate into the wrong language... Perhaps?
 
Serves you right.

Clearly the game is telling you to rename your ship "Taste The Rainbow". :p

I've come to the conclusion that the profanity filter is just filtering everything, as to be sure it's not missing anything. :p

100% effective!

That is an amusing alternative! becoming more catchy the more I think of it ;)

Yeah that's my thoughts too, if everything is blurred then there is 0% chance of a profanity being visible. :D

There are letters in it that could be possibly maybe rearranged into a profanity... If run through Google translate into the wrong language... Perhaps?

I guess, they probably also included the Thargoid and Guardian languages to make sure we don't offend them either when translated! :D
 
Check your ship name here:
http://wordsafety.com/

Here it gives two suggestion on why it could be considered bad.
One English
One Swedish

The English suggestion isn't even even part of the name. The closest thing in the name is "Skit", which could actually come out as the word in question given the correct accent. That said, the rest of the name gives context that nullifies the meaning of the word, so yeah. I don't buy it.

The Swedish makes some sense. However, Skittles are sold in Sweden, where they use a different pronunciation for Skittles and the flagged word (Skittles is pronounced with a hard 'k' and the k in the flagged word is pronounced as a 'ch'). I think the Swedes should be able to differentiate between Skittles and the naughty word regardless. I don't really buy this one either.
 
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The English suggestion isn't even even part of the name. The closest thing in the name is "Skit", which could actually come out as the word in question given the correct accent. That said, the rest of the name gives context that nullifies the meaning of the word, so yeah. I don't buy it.

The Swedish makes some sense. However, Skittles are sold in Sweden, where they use a different pronunciation for Skittles and the flagged word (Skittles is pronounced with a hard 'k' and the k in the flagged word is pronounced as a 'ch'). I think the Swedes should be able to differentiate between Skittles and the naughty word regardless. I don't really buy this one either.

I have never been very found of these multi language profanity filters, as what might be a totally innocent and daily used word in one language can have a totally different meaning in another language.



It is always great fun to go and visit Selene Jean in her home system .... now if we could enable profanity filter, you will no longer be able to...
 
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