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The swear filter

• FatFace68 85 Posts

  Fri, Mar 4 2022 10:25 AM

  What's going on with the swear filter? Yesterday I tried to write "miss hit the mouse button" twice, and twice it came out as ****** in the chat. Also, why can't we say "hell"? I wanted to type "hell of a shot" to someone and I couldn't. I understand the need for a swear filter, but blocking the word hell? Really?

• Duphpherer 467 Posts

  Fri, Mar 4 2022 1:45 PM

  It is in need of attention. Right behind 500 other little things. Sometimes poorly censored chat can be interpreted wrong and look like an insult in the context of a remark.  

  Would be nice to be able to turn on/off chat filter in settings. Off by default and if one is easily offended, toggle it on... or vice versa. 

• SamSpayed 5,018 Posts

  Fri, Mar 4 2022 6:37 PM

  Duphpherer:

  Would be nice to be able to turn on/off chat filter in settings. Off by default and if one is easily offended, toggle it on... or vice versa. 

  +1 on that

  I think this is yet another situation where WGT tried to "improve" something but ended up making it worse.  Maybe they should hire some competent QA people to test these things before they release them.

• FatFace68 85 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2022 3:05 AM

  Duphpherer:

  It is in need of attention. Right behind 500 other little things. Sometimes poorly censored chat can be interpreted wrong and look like an insult in the context of a remark.  

  Would be nice to be able to turn on/off chat filter in settings. Off by default and if one is easily offended, toggle it on... or vice versa. 

  A filter we can turn on or off would work for me. Good idea.

   

• protonc 645 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2022 8:35 AM

  Agreed!!!

• PureGro1 1,656 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2022 8:47 AM

  It is ridiculous at this point....I sometimes forget which words are okay.

   

  Last night coin game--

  Opponent: "Hey GL, How are you tonight?"

  Me: "Hey thx, HF and Pw! Just enjoying a cookie" which Filtered to "********"

  Opponent: F u too pal

  Me: "Sorry, just tried to say cookie" Which Filtered to "********"

  Me: C o o k i e 

  Opponent: Nothing but SILENCE

  No response, Im sure he closed chat and all i could do was SMH...

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2022 3:13 PM

  PureGro1:

  It is ridiculous at this point....I sometimes forget which words are okay.

  Last night coin game--

  Opponent: "Hey GL, How are you tonight?"

  Me: "Hey thx, HF and Pw! Just enjoying a cookie" which Filtered to "********"

  Opponent: F u too pal

  Me: "Sorry, just tried to say cookie" Which Filtered to "********"

  Me: C o o k i e 

  Opponent: Nothing but SILENCE

  No response, Im sure he closed chat and all i could do was SMH...

  What kind of cookie?

• twinponds169 3,042 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2022 3:45 PM

  And if you said "just enjoying some nookie" it probably would have went through just fine.  :-)

• PureGro1 1,656 Posts

  Sat, Mar 5 2022 6:03 PM

  ct690911:

  What kind of cookie

  Peanut butter w/ chocolate chips...Magic butter made em about 40mg 

   

  twinponds169:

  And if you said "just enjoying some nookie" it probably would have went through just fine.  :-)

  Haha

  

• FatFace68 85 Posts

  Sun, Mar 6 2022 4:57 AM

  So cookie is a no-no, but we can say FFS. It just makes no sense.