"Inappropriate" Language

then block "hitler", i doubt anyone still has a last name like that these days, or will in the future. also block "sieg heil", just don't mangle normal first names.

wow a defiance nerd have my children

protogoth wrote: »

arrmateys wrote: »

limonazza wrote: »

adolf

adolf shouldn't matter.

just because one bad guy had a name like that doesn't mean everyone on the planet with the same name should suffer for that. otherwise why aren't all josephs suffering for stalin's and mengele's atrocities? or vlads for lenin creating one of the worst regimes, only rivaled by adolf's one?

We have German players. The BRD has some laws which would be considered draconian censorship by some other nations, such as not allowing a child to be given the name Adolph (that is the correct spelling of the jerk's name). Having German players means that PWE will not want the forum site to be blocked in Germany, so they may have to add some things to the filter while they're taking others out.

They may be able to get away with just doing that on the German Language Version.

More testing:

chink in one's armor
Kike Elomaa
Guido van Rossum

Apparently, it filters a common saying and the name of a Finnish bodybuilder, but not the name of a programming language creator.

I saw this in another thread:

limonazza wrote: »

Is there any way to change your forum name or ID or whatever, i am not really going to post anymore (and i had thousands post count) as long as i am forced to do it with my very account ID.... The devs really need to fix this... i mean your email is kinda public, your ip is kinda public, your account ID is public... seriously? getting hac.ked couldn't be easier than this (why is h acked even a bad word wtf)

hack
hacked
hacker
hacking

I'm not sure I understand this one. Why filter out the bare infinitive and the past tense, but not the present participle or the noun?

It seems the opposite of Heaven is blocked out as well.
Kinda silly that one.

protogoth wrote: »

We have German players. The BRD has some laws which would be considered draconian censorship by some other nations, such as not allowing a child to be given the name Adolph (that is the correct spelling of the jerk's name). Having German players means that PWE will not want the forum site to be blocked in Germany, so they may have to add some things to the filter while they're taking others out.

I just wanted to point out that you are mistaken with "Adolph", at least regarding the original German (I indeed have no idea wether there's a different spelling in English but I have never seen anyone using the spelling "Adolph"). "Adolf" is a derivation of the Germanic "Athalwolf" (later "Adalwolf") and has always been spelled with "f"

BRD laws do not require the name "Hitler" or "Adolf Hitler" or any forms of it to be censored. A child can of course be named "Adolf", there are no laws against that (wether you want your child to carry that name and it's implications is another matter). NS-symbolism though is censored except in historical and educational material as well as movies ("Indiana Jones" movies for example can show the swastika and SS-runes, the point and click video game adaptations need to censor it, though. I think, but I'm not sure, that is because movies fall under freedom of art whereas computer games are legally toys). There are also some rather curious effects like license plates cannot have a "SS", "SA" or "AH" in them (German license plates read XXX XX 1111 whereas the first two or three letters indicate the city or community, the second set of letters are randomly assigned letters followed by random digits).

EDIT: GOOD GRIEF, X-X-X gets censored?

protogoth wrote: »

(...)

But as for the legality of giving the name to a child, ...

So dürfen Vornamen nicht beleidigend oder lächerlich sein. Der Vorname muss als Vorname erkennbar sein. Darum sind Sachbezeichnungen wie z. B. „Telefon“ oder „Eisenbahn“ genauso wenig gestattet wie Nachnamen. Heftig gestritten wird übrigens über Ortsbezeichnungen als Vornamen, nicht zuletzt weil es hier viele internationale Beispiele gibt.

-- Quelle

Na und?

The bolded part only states that names cannot be insulting. "Adolf" however is not an insult, it's a regular name (as quite a few elderly people still carrying that name, I think they would fight you on considering their name an insult).

According to that site, naming a child isn't even covered by law but by a Verwaltungsvorschrift which basically means the citizen is not bound by it (loosely. I had some basic jurisprudence covered in my studies but not enough to safely navigate German law, especially outside of my field of expertise) but the authority the name is stated to has to decide wether or not naming the child in that way is considered "irresponsible".

The decision wether or not "Adolf" is irresponsible is up to the officer whom may register the child's name, it is thereby subjective. The name itself is not problematic, just the social consequences that choice bears need to be kept in mind.

EDIT: For some reason I have quite a lot of trouble typing "consider"

daveyny wrote: »

It seems the opposite of Heaven is blocked out as well.
Kinda silly that one.

Grethor will have to do.

toiva wrote: »

daveyny wrote: »

It seems the opposite of Heaven is blocked out as well.
Kinda silly that one.

Grethor will have to do.

Or perhaps Hades? Or Hel. There is likely no shortage of synonyms for the underworld.

Tongue firmly in cheek for this one...

Well I'm a Londoner which gives me a few ways of getting a point across with rhyming slang, which came about as a way for the 'underclasses'[sic] to talk freely without the authorities being able to understand what was being said.

Such as:

Berkshire hunt: As in 'what a total Berk'

Thruppenny bits: As in 'You're getting on my Thruppennies'

Pony & trap: As in 'What a pile of pony'

Merchant Banker: 'You're a right merchant'

(I'm pretty sure you can work out the rhyming slang.)

And a few other choice terms that have no way of being stopped by any decency filter. But that is the thing about linguistics and the headache that filtering systems have to deal with...

And just for the lol, here's a little twitterism.
https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/615626050987520000/photo/1

There's a whole list of words that would normally be accepted that just aren't any more.​​

gulberat wrote: »

Wow. This REALLY needs to be addressed. We just had the word knob -- k.n.o.b--censored in a fanfic while describing the act of opening a door. That is way, way over the top... O_O

Well it's a slur in British English you k.n.o.b.head XD. Refers to a specific part of male genitals.

Man all the naughty words I'm learning today. It's like being 7 again and starting school.

gulberat wrote: »

ilithyn wrote: »

gulberat wrote: »

Wow. This REALLY needs to be addressed. We just had the word knob -- k.n.o.b--censored in a fanfic while describing the act of opening a door. That is way, way over the top... O_O

Well it's a slur in British English you k.n.o.b.head XD. Refers to a specific part of male genitals.

Man all the naughty words I'm learning today. It's like being 7 again and starting school.

In the U.S. it means nothing but the part of a door used to open it. IMO it can safely be removed from the profanity filter and mods can use their judgment as to the meaning and context.

Yeah I don't really get why it's there either. It is a bit overzealous.
Especially as it's not even that bad a word, Brits are generally more laid back with references to genitals and sex than Americans are. After all, a fairly common and relatively mild insult to call someone is wanker, which refers to masturbations. Granted knobhead is a bit worse, but not by that much.

tehbubbaloo wrote: »

the beauty of the overzealous censor is that encourages creative writing ​​

To say the least. And whoever came up with the idea that people who swear have limited vocabularies? I have rarely seen such inventiveness or diverse application of language