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Suggestion Name: Auto-censor vulgarities in in-game chat
Suggestion Description: Have a system to auto-censor vulgarities in in-game chat. For example, if someone says the 'f' word, it will automatically be replaced with asterisks. " * "  Or tweak the system such that any posts with any vulgarities will not be posted onto the chat,

Any example images: Clash of Clans has a very good censor system.

Example image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtO33VvCcAAaNne.jpg

At least the regular PC keyboard does not have multiple keyboards to switch back and forth for the user to try to type the vulgarities.

Why should it be added?: There are lots of people spurting out vulgarities frequently (especially in Rotterdam), even as ETS2 is rated 3+.

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Clash of Clans censor system can be avoided by using LEED-Language structures

instead of writing "fuck", you write "F\_/C|<" or simlar. (sorry for the language, but I needed an example)

So it won't be effective in the end if someone really wants to swear.

10 minutes ago, uuu100145j said:

At least the regular PC keyboard does not have multiple keyboards to switch back and forth for the user to try to type the vulgarities.

i don't exactly understand what you mean with this sentence.

Do you mean diffreent languages on the keyboard or something else?

"Just because others break rules, does not grant you the permission to break the rules as well"

Please drive respectful on the servers. Thank you!

 

 

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For the iOS or Andriod systems, you can add keyboards in other languages to write vulgarities. For example, writing the "c" in the 'f word' using the Russian keyboard can avoid the censor system too. Since it is harder to change keyboards on the PC it will be a deterrent. 

 

LEED-Language structures aren't obvious, I can't make that word out at first glance.

 

This means that anyone who swears can be in a position for a heftier ban, because they find a loophole in the system just to swear. More reason to ban them there.

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There is a hotkey-feature for that in windows too. The shortcut for that is Win + Space. (etl. you need to change a seeing in the language settings before being able to do this)

So if the system can be avoided using the explained tactics, the intended use of the system is not achieved which is "avoiding vulgarities in chat"

"Just because others break rules, does not grant you the permission to break the rules as well"

Please drive respectful on the servers. Thank you!

 

 

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However, since most people do not know this Win + Space feature, (I did not know it till now), it can still deter some vulgarities from being spoken. (Most TMP players are quite young which means a reasonably large amount of people will not know these exploits)

 

EDIT: The profanity rule still exists, but people who say profanities in-game also exploited the censor system, which means more reason to ban them.

Otherwise, another way is to auto-ban users who frequently try to say profanities (but I do not think this would be feasible)

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I think this suggestion has been made before. It might be worth noting a blacklist can always be bypassed as has been pointed out, not to mention the the number of spoken languages (meaning a huge blacklist!), as well as double meanings, harmless substrings etc. 

That being said, having a small blacklist of the most common words wouldn't really do too much harm, so I can see some potential for it

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42 minutes ago, bestgolfer86 said:

That being said, having a small blacklist of the most common words wouldn't really do too much harm, so I can see some potential for it

It all depends on how hard it is for the devs to add it in. Based upon what kind of feature it is, it should be somewhat easy. Once it's supported, adding new terms could be done easily by admins. Sure, people will learn to bypass it, but it'll still help clean up chat.

 

Honestly, if the censoring is only done on the receiving end, allowing the user to disable the filter would mean people are less likely to try and find ways to bypass it. A game like Planetside 2 does this very thing and it works. Though, rather than star out words, they instead replace the word. So any combo of the 'F' word changes into 'Higby'. We could instead use trucking terms, but you should get the idea.

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Any sort of profanity filter can be avoided by simply placing spaces, capitals or keystrokes that give the same spelling, for example (and excuse the profanities) but some filters stop words like "twat", the easiest way around it is to put tw@. not the same spelling, yet still sounds the exact same.

 

Also a Filter like this defeats the whole idea of having rules against bad language. Not to mention that if you see a blurred or weird line in a chat message, you automatically know that someone has used profanity anyway, people will still get offended by it.

 

So -1 here.

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I still think this is useful. Clash of Clans has a solid censor sytem. It also censors words that have spaces in between, using replacement letters (like b!tch instead of bitch) and also censors lots of other words. A good system is one where the admins can easily add words that people use to try to avoid the blacklist system. With consistent addition of new profanities that people use, almost all profanities can be censored. (e.g if someone says b!tch, the admins can blacklist this word easily)

 

16 hours ago, megadethsteve666 said:

Any sort of profanity filter can be avoided by simply placing spaces, capitals or keystrokes that give the same spelling, for example (and excuse the profanities) but some filters stop words like "twat", the easiest way around it is to put tw@. not the same spelling, yet still sounds the exact same.

 

Also a Filter like this defeats the whole idea of having rules against bad language. Not to mention that if you see a blurred or weird line in a chat message, you automatically know that someone has used profanity anyway, people will still get offended by it.

 

So -1 here.

It doesn't defeat the idea of using bad language (admins can still ban people using profanities in the voice chat). Also, if the message is "asterisked", no one will know what profanity is attempted to use, and if the whole message is deleted, it will be even better,.

 

Also less work for the admins, as adding new terms to the blacklist is a one-time thing. More time to patrol and catch rammers and trollers instead of sitting in Rotterdam countlessly typing " /b [user] 3d Insulting ".

 

If Supercell can do it, so can we. Especially since we have admins online almost at any point of time, many more people will be caught.

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^the thing is, the current system teaches people NOT to use profanities in chat, simple. A filter system will ENCOURAGE people to use profanity because they know it wont technically be seen because its filtered/covered etc, so instead of someone using normal language to describe the situation, such as saying "good job, where did you learn to drive?" people can still say things like "F you you Fing Idiot, learn to Fing drive like an Fing real person", just instead of the swear words appearing, they will be censored, so it does not stop people from swearing in chat, it just tries to hide the fact which im opposed to 110%, if you cant speak civilly in chat, don't speak at all, same goes for Voice Chat, if you cant say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

 

The only way hot headed people will learn is if its recorded by others and they get banned from the system to cool of for a bit, we don't want to see swearing in chat, filtering/censoring doesn't really solve the problem, just covers it up, banning the offensive person will solve the issue. simple.

 

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I know that this topic is old, but I wanted to bring it up anyway.
*blows dust of*

A profanity filter could be a little relieve from the admins, regarding the amount of reports they get.
There are many people, that were getting rammed, and in a spur of adrenaline, typed something that is not appropriate.

Those people get reported, admins need to take a look, what has been said etc etc.
Piling up the list of reports.
While they did not really mean it, and cursed in the heat of the moment.

Then you get the people who really want to curse in the chat. And will avoid the profanity filter. Those people deserve a ban more, than the impulsive people, in my opinion.

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On 6/29/2016 at 0:09 PM, [ALB] SMAviator said:

What about voice chat? You can't really censor that automatically.

Exactly what I was thinking. Plus most people who insult/swear tend to do that no a days as its convenient, gets their anger across, and can't be reported unless someone was recording and got their name/pinfo down and really feels a need to report.

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This is imposible to make, because on TruckersMP are players form different countries. Look, in Polish you have about 40 badwords and they don't sound this same. Now, think about others language, every badword must be save in database, this is really hard. And besides, the creators have other activities.

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This would be nearly impossible to implement and there are many ways to bypass a swearing filter/censor such as using special characters or characters in different languages.  Also people speak many different languages so it would be nearly impossible to block swearing in every language.

 

Please also use the search function next time as this has been suggested before and rejected.

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