How can you disable the chat profanity filter

Daialura - Heavens Tear

My response may be over the top but...

At the very least you have to agree that censoring ****atrice when that item is available to buy in the Cash Shop is indicactive of a broken system, right?

Apart from my rant, I think that's all anyone else is really saying: Don't remove the filter, but it is broken and needs to be fixed.

Right now, anyone wanting to sell a crimson cockatrice has to spell it c0ckatrice which puts them in violation of the ToS for circumventing the filter...

Surely you can agree that giving someone the choice between being an ineffective communicator, or risk becoming exiled (banned) isn't going to work in the long run right?

Daialura - Heavens Tear

One encouraging and happily surprising observation: After four pages, considering the topic, and use of several examples, the thread is still open. I'm guessing it's because the posters have been mostly respectful to one another.

I'm more hopeful that PWI is listening.

Daialura - Heavens Tear

The one argument I can present in FAVOR of using filters is this: PWI isn't a government representing constituents, they're a private enterprise and wholly own the Perfect World game environment. As such they CAN dictate what you or I can or cannot say as easily as you can do so to any guest in your house.

This is their house.

But as guests, we can make requests that certain rules be removed, relaxed or otherwise changed. PWI can say yes or no at their discretion.

That's really all that's happening here. PW's a game owned by PWI, it's their house and they can regulate what can or can't be said on their property.

I'm just asking for either a rule change or a fixing of the enforcement mechanisms so they don't interrupt speech that isn't breaking the rules, or an allowance for me to turn it off should I wish.

Daialura - Heavens Tear

One more thing regarding specifically the use of racial epithets, predict what I'm thinking when I say the word "cracker." There's no way to effectively do that because the word isn't presented with any context which is the ultimate failure of any automated system of censorship: The inability to determine context.

They removed that word from the list, but amusingly enough, it WAS censored.

If you're referring to the "n" word, yes that word is strongly offensive, but again there was an episode only a few weeks ago where someone was able to easily bypass it and caused much WC ruckus in HT.

Again, anybody normal wouldn't use the word, even accidentally so there's no point in filtering it. That person was crude enough to use it offensively and repeatedly and easily bypassed the filter, so it was ineffective at doing what it was designed for.

Phoenix - Dreamweaver

Question: if someone can circumvent the lock on your front door, and get into your house, does that mean you shouldn't put a lock on your front door?

Question: If someone were to beat you to death with a red herring for using a red herring fallacy, does that mean we should ban fish? No, because that would be as ludicrous as implying that a word filter is analogous to the protection of personal property, although if you really must have your pithy metaphor: a door lock is individually operated, and the discretion of its use is left up to the home-owner, not the manufacturer of the lock.

Dude, I am not talking about "my arbitrary standards", dumbass. Read my last post. Thanks for playing.

Dude, society's standards for lingual propriety is also arbitrary, making your anemic comeback completely pointless. If you can't comprehend the contextual nature of language you are psychologically impotent and therefore incapable of understanding the very base issues at hand; you cannot discuss the spuriousness of a word filter, which you've so aptly pointed out is the topic of this thread, without also touching upon the motives for its creation which by necessity requires discussing social impropriety and individual maturity.

Even racial slurs and epithets have vastly different meanings when uttered between friends. Censorship is insolent for its blithe presumptuousness, and is more insulting than the harsh words it spares us. Lern2context, dumbass.

Daialura - Heavens Tear

Hey hey hey, put the gloves back on... lol

The mod's are gonna swing their own lock metaphor at this thread otherwise and I'd rather the point didn't get overshadowed by insults.

Phoenix - Dreamweaver

The point has already been made; mandatory expletive censorship assumes the playerbase has the mentality of a child and must be protected from harsh language. It's not any more complicated than that.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

You know this entire thing could be avoided if you would not use such language. Its not hard. I don't use it.

jemima

Daialura - Heavens Tear wrote: »

If you're referring to the "n" word, yes that word is strongly offensive, but again there was an episode only a few weeks ago where someone was able to easily bypass it and caused much WC ruckus in HT.

But again, as the filter is currently designed, it blocks words containing it which are perfectly innocent. Have you never s******ed at someone's niggardliness before?

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

You know this entire thing could be avoided if you would not use such language. Its not hard. I don't use it.

That requires restricting the language you use, and depends on what you talk about. Well, except that the word filter is so easy to bypass, but that's another argument against the filter.