I was going to say this, if reading the word assassin is banned on that side of the ships, then what about the mission boards?
Ship Name Profanity Filter Suggestions
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Assassin isn't what's being censored, it's just the first 3 letters repeated that it's censoring out. Same reason the first 3 letters of Assault is censored.
The big problem is that, without a dictionary of valid words loaded, we could get players naming their ships with one long word made up of several words, one or more being profane ("Gonnagetya" - now replace 'get' with a well known F word). Having said that, there are other online games that have managed to get around that, still censoring the profanity without censoring valid words, even in unspaced names. Might be an idea for FD to look into how they did it. As I pointed out earlier, the current method of censoring starts to get silly like it did on the Eve Online forums.
The big problem is that, without a dictionary of valid words loaded, we could get players naming their ships with one long word made up of several words, one or more being profane ("Gonnagetya" - now replace 'get' with a well known F word). Having said that, there are other online games that have managed to get around that, still censoring the profanity without censoring valid words, even in unspaced names. Might be an idea for FD to look into how they did it. As I pointed out earlier, the current method of censoring starts to get silly like it did on the Eve Online forums.
Logically Frontier are using some form of filter here; so why can't they use the same in the ship naming programming?
I often wonder if the proper spelling of the word for a gluteus maximus would get through the filter, when the word for a donkey fails.
So its ok for your nephew to deal illegal drugs steal and kill, as long as no cursing is involved. I should honour your logic by naming my next ship "Illogical Kitty Uncle".
If you are willing to report a player, shouldn't you and the others be the moral police and report ship names? Why should I be constantly harrassed and reminded of this nonsense? (if the filter was a person, after this sentence It would be interrupting me saying: you said a.s.s!)
At least make it optional, this filtering system is offensive to human intelligence! It censors words like Audifago (a real name), broad-bean (Fava), little butterfly (Farfalina), fish (pesce), because in some slang, it, or part of it is used to refer to sexual organ.
Will FD also have female holo-me wear a hijab or burka, they must know its offensive in some cultures for women to have uncovered heads?
Seriously, at least make it optional.
I've noticed that those in favour of having a profanity filter are being taken to task for it on these boards. Whereas I agree with the OP on suggestion 2, I do have to ask: why is enabling profanity so important to so many people? Why the urge to use swear words in your ship names? 'Adult' reasons are cited, but it hardly strikes me as a particularly adult thing to do.
Admittedly the filter used is rather oversimplistic, just replacing certain strings of characters with asterisks by the looks of it, and so being able to flag it with the admins (or whoever) is a fine plan. Currently the filter is an ineffective method of filtering swearwords (I once worked on an internet forum, and innocent words like the UK town name 'S****horpe' and the football team 'Arsenal' regularly got mangled which led to quite a few complaints, and the word '****' kept getting censored on a forum about breeding farm dogs for example). I can understand the frustration when a suitably descriptive work like 'assassin' gets chewed up.
But for the life of me I simply cannot understand why some people would so desperately want to use obscenities in their ship names and are getting so bent out of shape about it...
Edit: ironically, the forum software censored this post! The town in question in in the UK in Lincolnshire, and the word that got censored in the bit about breeding farm dogs referred to the female of the species
Admittedly the filter used is rather oversimplistic, just replacing certain strings of characters with asterisks by the looks of it, and so being able to flag it with the admins (or whoever) is a fine plan. Currently the filter is an ineffective method of filtering swearwords (I once worked on an internet forum, and innocent words like the UK town name 'S****horpe' and the football team 'Arsenal' regularly got mangled which led to quite a few complaints, and the word '****' kept getting censored on a forum about breeding farm dogs for example). I can understand the frustration when a suitably descriptive work like 'assassin' gets chewed up.
But for the life of me I simply cannot understand why some people would so desperately want to use obscenities in their ship names and are getting so bent out of shape about it...
Edit: ironically, the forum software censored this post! The town in question in in the UK in Lincolnshire, and the word that got censored in the bit about breeding farm dogs referred to the female of the species
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I've noticed that those in favour of having a profanity filter are being taken to task for it on these boards. Whereas I agree with the OP on suggestion 2, I do have to ask: why is enabling profanity so important to so many people? Why the urge to use swear words in your ship names? 'Adult' reasons are cited, but it hardly strikes me as a particularly adult thing to do.
Admittedly the filter used is rather oversimplistic, just replacing certain strings of characters with asterisks by the looks of it, and so being able to flag it with the admins (or whoever) is a fine plan. Currently the filter is an ineffective method of filtering swearwords (I once worked on an internet forum, and innocent words like the UK town name 'S****horpe' and the football team 'Arsenal' regularly got mangled which led to quite a few complaints, and the word '****' kept getting censored on a forum about breeding farm dogs for example). I can understand the frustration when a suitably descriptive work like 'assassin' gets chewed up.
But for the life of me I simply cannot understand why some people would so desperately want to use obscenities in their ship names and are getting so bent out of shape about it...
Edit: ironically, the forum software censored this post! The town in question in in the UK in Lincolnshire, and the word that got censored in the bit about breeding farm dogs referred to the female of the species
The reason for this suggestions is not so that we can curse or see other people cursing, the reason is that of freedom of expression. To allow us intelligent people not be subject to this futile attempt of moderation and letting dimwits be elite dimwits. Personaly I think they bring diversity and immersion to the game, having ship names with * does the opposite.
The easy and fair solution would be making the filter optional. I cannot understand why some people so desperately want to force me to read asterisks.
The best solution would be letting the comunity moderate it self by flaging offenssive content (already implemented feature), our human filter is way better at reading all the alternative/creative ways to do it.
Another thing:
The game is ESRB rated as Teen - Games with this rating contain content which the ESRB believes is generally suitable for those aged 13 years and older; they can contain moderate amounts of violence (including small amounts of blood), mild to moderate use of strong language or suggestive themes, sexual content, and crude humor.
This rating would allow words like p.e.n.i.s, wiener or a.s.s., to be used yet they get filtered out. So the filter is clearly over zealous.
Another thing, this is the rating for the game content (things created by FD), not for the online content, so open play should at least have the option to turn the filter off (and I'm repeating myself).
The game is ESRB rated as Teen - Games with this rating contain content which the ESRB believes is generally suitable for those aged 13 years and older; they can contain moderate amounts of violence (including small amounts of blood), mild to moderate use of strong language or suggestive themes, sexual content, and crude humor.
This rating would allow words like p.e.n.i.s, wiener or a.s.s., to be used yet they get filtered out. So the filter is clearly over zealous.
Another thing, this is the rating for the game content (things created by FD), not for the online content, so open play should at least have the option to turn the filter off (and I'm repeating myself).
ya mean those non insectoid thargoid race that some how made it to our culture?
I have issues with a profanity filter in a game aimed at anyone above 12. It all gets a bit judgemental,
and the concept of putting some alpha numerics together and offending a snowflake is flawed in the
real world, never mind about way in the future, where no doubt brand new non-viking based expletives
have been formed.
Perhaps that is the answer? We just need to be more creative with our 'naughty words'. LOL
Phrases such a Fanak Thrunk are currently permissible. But the meaning *I* give to that phrase is not
So, yes, the whole concept of censorship with words is a complete pile of Trelique.
Where do we draw the line is another issue.... is a swearword now? I figure since we all have one it would be acceptable.
Or have we got to talk about BOTTOMS? Do we start including religious bans, so for example I can't call my ship "SERVANT OF CHRIST", but sure... it would be fine to call it "DEVIL SPAWN"?
Food for thought.....
Edited to note... yes, I see @$$ got censored.... I wonder if it censors CRUNT
and the concept of putting some alpha numerics together and offending a snowflake is flawed in the
real world, never mind about way in the future, where no doubt brand new non-viking based expletives
have been formed.
Perhaps that is the answer? We just need to be more creative with our 'naughty words'. LOL
Phrases such a Fanak Thrunk are currently permissible. But the meaning *I* give to that phrase is not
So, yes, the whole concept of censorship with words is a complete pile of Trelique.
Where do we draw the line is another issue.... is a swearword now? I figure since we all have one it would be acceptable.
Or have we got to talk about BOTTOMS? Do we start including religious bans, so for example I can't call my ship "SERVANT OF CHRIST", but sure... it would be fine to call it "DEVIL SPAWN"?
Food for thought.....
Edited to note... yes, I see @$$ got censored.... I wonder if it censors CRUNT
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Try 'Semprini'
Some forum software allows admins to swap dirty words for custom alternatives instead of asterisks, e.g. the eff word gets replaced by the string 'lovingly caress'
[Edit: had to edit this post because the letter 'f' followed by three asterisks got censored!]
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