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Profanity is not allowed in Reports?

sle1989sle1989 Member Posts: 552 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Controls and User Interface
Look, I understand that sometimes people will get mad and start cussing out GMs in a report, but not allowing us to have profanity in reports is a mistake. This is because there are several times when reporting other players for horrid behaviour you want to include what was said and often times this includes what can be thought of as offensive language.

This is not a specific example but what if you wanted to report another player for hate language and they used a word that is banned in the reports? They do ask for a detailed description after all.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Try replacing the word in question with "f-word" or whatever.
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  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    sle1989 wrote: »
    Look, I understand that sometimes people will get mad and start cussing out GMs in a report, but not allowing us to have profanity in reports is a mistake. This is because there are several times when reporting other players for horrid behaviour you want to include what was said and often times this includes what can be thought of as offensive language.

    This is not a specific example but what if you wanted to report another player for hate language and they used a word that is banned in the reports? They do ask for a detailed description after all.

    It's very simple. Give them the exact time of the incident and the player character@handle. Cryptic keeps logs of all chats and with that info, they can look up what the player said in chat and punish them if needed. The time of the incident is most important. It helps support narrow it down so they don't have to spend all day looking up the chat logs for the last 24 hours.

    And you don't need to repeat exactly what the player said. Just give support a general description such as being racist, or talking nasty, or whatever the case is.
  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I would just report the player and a timestamp of when it occurred. Likely whatever was said was logged somewhere and they can pull it up.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Just say they used profanity in the report. If I remember correctly, when you send a GM report, it makes a copy of your log that they access to review.
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    sle1989 wrote: »
    This is not a specific example but what if you wanted to report another player for hate language and they used a word that is banned in the reports? They do ask for a detailed description after all.

    "They" do also point out that they have logs of the chat, which will obviously contain any offensive text. That's why no, allowing profanity in reports is not in any way needed.
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited February 2014
    Yup, we have chat logs. If the specifics of what they said are THAT critical, we'll find it ourselves. No need to include it.
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  • mikec1013mikec1013 Member Posts: 152 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    This rule is what prompted me to name one of my ships the U.S.S. Profanity. Tell me profanity is not allowed...
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Yup, we have chat logs. If the specifics of what they said are THAT critical, we'll find it ourselves. No need to include it.

    You forgot: "/thread. [Closed]" :P
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