Away with profanity in crafting style names, please

Tandor

Tyrobag wrote: »

I wasn't aware anybody actually left that thing on..

I leave it on, and Zone Chat off. Zone English is usually fine and provides all I need by way of public chat (none, apart from the odd question and answer), so any question of altering the default filter setting has never arisen.

Alchemical

Yeah you can just turn it off, but it also, apparently, impacts your ability to name things. Like my argonian guild 'Sweet Water' was forced to have a - in the middle of it, and in chat it comes up as 'Swee****er'. Which imo is both ridiculous and also sounds more like profanity than the original words. Or at least if someone called me a Sweeer I'd assume it was an insult.

VerboseQuips

I just think the profanity filter should replace every occurrence of forbidden words with "abavarlor" instead of using little stars.

rpa

I'm bad at remembering to turn the profanity filter off until I type something like 'put on' and it gets censored. I'm actually tempted to turn it back on to expand my vocabulary in random languages.

Merlight

Found another: Can anyone confi****hat *** runs rampant in ESO?

Ratzkifal

The filter being oversensitive actually taught me a lot more lewd/bad words in English than I knew before. It's kind of doing the opposite of what it's supposed to.

Kiyakotari

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

the ****** mightier than the sword

yes, that gets censored. yes, there is a space between "pen" and "is"

Yep, that was the first one I came across, and I promptly went and turned the thing off. It's now on the list of stupid settings I have to change each time I roll a new toon (because, you know, a "turn on/off account-wide settings" option would be too complicated).

Kiyakotari

Alchemical wrote: »

Yeah you can just turn it off, but it also, apparently, impacts your ability to name things. Like my argonian guild 'Sweet Water' was forced to have a - in the middle of it, and in chat it comes up as 'Swee****er'. Which imo is both ridiculous and also sounds more like profanity than the original words. Or at least if someone called me a Sweeer I'd assume it was an insult.

(It assumes you're trying to say that euphemism for a woman's more intimate area that both begins and ends with a 't' and just throwing in spaces or dashes to confuse it. The end result is a very different kind of confusion, of course.)

starkerealm

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

the ****** mightier than the sword

yes, that gets censored. yes, there is a space between "pen" and "is"

And the spirit of SNL Jeopardy is pleased.

LordTareq

What I don’t understand is why people have the profanity filter on in the first place? If someone is spouting profanity just put them on the ignore list!

Merlight

Kiyakotari wrote: »

(It assumes you're trying to say that euphemism for a woman's more intimate area that both begins and ends with a 't' and just throwing in spaces or dashes to confuse it. The end result is a very different kind of confusion, of course.)

"woman's more intimate area" is an euphemism; the word behind asterisks is not. Euphemism is a word or expression constructed purposely to bypass a filter (human or machine). For example "alternative facts" is an euphemism for "lies".

Kalgert

Ragged_Claw wrote: »

Yeah the whis****e one has always confused the heck (no swearing there) out of me. It's a scientific and perfectly acceptable term for you know, thingy. Think of the poor ***** whales.

The whales don't exist.

Also, sensual bodily products are evil, because.... Reasons.

Kiyakotari

Merlight wrote: »

Kiyakotari wrote: »

(It assumes you're trying to say that euphemism for a woman's more intimate area that both begins and ends with a 't' and just throwing in spaces or dashes to confuse it. The end result is a very different kind of confusion, of course.)

"woman's more intimate area" is an euphemism; the word behind asterisks is not. Euphemism is a word or expression constructed purposely to bypass a filter (human or machine). For example "alternative facts" is an euphemism for "lies".

Fair enough, I should have used "term" rather than "euphemism." I was just trying not to get censored by the forum software.