Ship Name Censoring Games

Just be glad it isn't Sony.

On community pages the censorship got so bad that even foreign curse words were censored, if they were recognized by the Puritan software within an English word.

"Outfitted/Outfitting" was censored for some reason too. Great for discussing ship builds!

Supposedly, now Sony is removing communities from psn entirely, for whatever reason. Glad I moved to pc a few months back.
 
Scientific update!

"Erection" as in "Stellar Erection" is actually fine for the filter... I went back to my earlier choice, so if anyone wants to grab the name... ;)
Another suggestion was "tithing" which happens to end up in the filter. So it seems that in my attidudinal case it seems to hinge on the three letter t-word.
 
Scientific update!

"Erection" as in "Stellar Erection" is actually fine for the filter... I went back to my earlier choice, so if anyone wants to grab the name... ;)
Another suggestion was "tithing" which happens to end up in the filter. So it seems that in my attidudinal case it seems to hinge on the three letter t-word.
So you can have a Stellar Erection but not t...s :)

lOgIc :)
 
Some intern did quite a nice job on the filter, doncha think?

Thanks for the laughs, OP.

In all fairness, censoring language is a lot harder than most think. If you don't want to mangle user input, you have to accept that dirty language is going to get through. If you don't want much getting through, you have to accept user input will get mangled.

Just the way it works, though even the most stringent language filter can't stop those who want to use dirty language from doing it. This is why I err on the light side myself, but companies that are overly-sensitive to public shaming will demand maximum filtering, despite it not really working, just to be able to say they did everything they could, whatever the cost to their users.
 
Do you mean Japanese girl anime character names? :)
Some of them are, some of them are taking the characteristic of the name which match the ship.

For example, for my Imperial Cutter I have taken the name 'Miyuki' which means 'Beautiful white snow', my Co-vette I have taken the name 'Chihiro' which is the character name from animation 'Spirit away', and I feel she is brave and dare to explore in the animation.
 
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Some intern did quite a nice job on the filter, doncha think?

Thanks for the laughs, OP.
You're quite welcome, I had a few laughs myself with this thread over the past two days, thanks to everyone for contributing! :geek:

I've submitted a ticket to Fdev support regarding this issue.
I've also taken the liberty to submit the other instances of unfairly censoring ships names that came up in this thread. We'll see how support reacts, I suppose.

Names submitted for whitelisting are:

  • Attitude (ofc ;) )
  • Eat It
  • Titan and Titanic
  • Montana
  • Executor
  • Hope Dempsey

Thanks again, Cmdrs! See you in the black!

PS: If this goes to show anything then it is the need for attention to undue censoring which I very much hope will live on in this forum.
 
Oh and for those who dont know - and were wondering what happened to all the fuzzy felines of our Galaxy....

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Guardians of Lioness, a planet populated by chameleon and hybrid creatures, such as this half man half cat being. They were the results of genetic engineering experiments by another race. The other race was wiped out by the Raxxlans.... But their experiments lived on.

So ya - Im thinking the guardians were the Cat People from old Elite
I think it might be time to break out this guy again:

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