Forbidden word

[gabbatastic]

Analyzing. REALLY????? What kind of moron puts analyzing on the forbidden word list?

[Amundir]

The kind that have filters that match on partial words? Such as the first four characters of that word.

[Cordovan]

The kind that have filters that match on partial words? Such as the first four characters of that word.

This. We feel for the bastard swords that penetrate enemies' Damage Reduction, but it is what it is.

[Coyopa]

This. We feel for the bastard swords that penetrate enemies' Damage Reduction, but it is what it is.

LOL. Too perfect! Thanks for the laugh!

[dunklezhan]

Does that mean "assess" is blocked too? And if so, how many times?

[Aelonwy]

Still bothered wi****lly is filtered. wist fully

[Steve_Howe]

Analyzing. REALLY????? What kind of moron puts analyzing on the forbidden word list?

You could just type "@nalyzing" instead.

[Niminae]

In my character bio the word "Abishai" was censored. Since that is a fictional word and a part of the game, with no partial words that jump out to me I was rather puzzled to find it censored.

[SpartanKiller13]

Analyzing. REALLY????? What kind of moron puts analyzing on the forbidden word list?

Just do like the rest of us and shove something into it... Wait...

Seriously though, partial analyzers fail to letter sw@ps, sp aces, and enteric vocabularies. Although full word analysis fails to tacking a letter on (****q), so that's not really a solution either. However, once the "forbidden" part of a word is <50% of the content, one would imagine that it is no longer a case of concatenation and instead a casualty of censorship.

It's nearly pointless, someone will find a way around them; the two major methods are imposing penalties for offenses (not great) and social pressure (my rather large active guild doesn't swear on guildchat). Attempting automated censors*** just makes your playerbase slightly more creative in their attempts to express their opinion.

[Knobull]

Yes, blacklist censorship does not work very well at all, it is a losing whack-a-mole battle. Though a whitelist chat censor would be pretty challenging to do well.

An improvement on the current blacklist censorship would be to use regular expressions, but blacklist censorship is still whack-a-mole no matter how you go about it.



Edit: oh, forgot to mention that one can disable the chat filter in your own client in the options, under gameplay settings I think?

[Hobgoblin]

Still bothered wi****lly is filtered. wist fully

its cause of stf part

[Loromir]

This. We feel for the bastard swords that penetrate enemies' Damage Reduction, but it is what it is.

Oh Wow....that might be worthy of an infraction. Pretty funny though.

[apocaladle]

its cause of stf part

you missed the u at the end

[Hobgoblin]

you missed the u at the end

well ya but thats circumventing the filter which i did not want to do. just pointing out the issue

[JOTMON]

You could just type "@nalyzing" instead.

but then you are intentionally bypassing the swear filter and risk getting handslapped or banned..


5. Profanity
The use of profanity is not permitted on our forums. The forums will filter out specific words, but you are responsible for all words you use whether they are filtered or not. Please do not attempt to circumvent this filter with creative spellings, use of special characters or other means.

[Hipparan]

In my character bio the word "Abishai" was censored. Since that is a fictional word and a part of the game, with no partial words that jump out to me I was rather puzzled to find it censored.

The same thing happened to me with "Elemental". I guess maybe "mental" was blocked for some reason, but it doesn't make sense to me.

[Kylstrem]

For Abishai, maybe "bish" as that term is usually used when referring to a female dog in internet forums and memes

[Scrapco]

I've told it before, but...


I wanted to name my pet spider "Muffins," but it was blocked. Sadface. I get it, but still.
Then two seconds later, a toon named "Beastiality Necrophilia" runs by. Come on! That's just rubbing salt in the wound.

[SirValentine]

What kind of moron puts analyzing on the forbidden word list?

I've the filter off for a long time, but the game mechanic by which casters over come Spell Resistance used to be filtered. Maybe it still is. Spell ***********.

[xCataluna]

I've told it before, but...


I wanted to name my pet spider "Muffins," but it was blocked. Sadface. I get it, but still.
Then two seconds later, a toon named "Beastiality Necrophilia" runs by. Come on! That's just rubbing salt in the wound.

I was standing next to someone named noisolpxe lanigav at the Harbor bank the other day.
I had to look at it twice to get it, but I'm sure whoever it is just feels SO clever for getting that one by. *rolls eyes*