Worthless Profanity Filter

chrisw_63_ESO

Sometime in the recent past the profanity filters have changed. Instead of just filtering common English profanity, someone decided to add, from what I've seen, profanity from just about every other major language that can possibly be typed using the English alphabet. When you add the fact that it ignores spaces, it is now removing a lot of common speech, just because, without the spaces, it becomes a foreign profanity!!! (e.g. "Hey put an AE on that group of adds." Yeah, this one is fairly understandable with the "put a" censored, but many others are not.)

So now everyone will turn off the filter so they can figure out what people are saying in English, and the filter is worthless. Is there any way to fix this? It used to be nice not to see the F-word every other line in zone chat. Now I have to choose whether to see that, or not understand what my friends and group mates are talking about. Please put it back the way it was.

barney2525

I don't use the filter, but before I found it, and I saw it censor a word I wrote in chat, I just rewrote the message and used in incorrect spelling on the legitimate word.

Its a nuisance. But it works.

IMHO

Elsonso

I wonder if this also contributes to some of the social bans that we have been seeing, lately.

Kiyakotari

I turned off the profanity filter about an hour after first logging into the game, after seeing it censor both "The pen is mightier than the sword," and "[...] at water's edge the party stopped [...]". (Or something along those lines for the second one.) Turning it off is now part of the routine (and long) list of settings adjustments I have to make every time I set up a new character. Because in 2020, global settings are too hard.

JamieAubrey

I'm 30, I don't need no B A filter

StormeReigns

JamieAubrey wrote: »

I'm 30, I don't need no B A filter

I'm 40. I keep it on cause fill in the blank madlibs during down times is entertaining.

YandereGirlfriend

Indeed, whatever regular expressions they're using to implement the filter are really not doing their job right.

They filter everything and make it into just random strings of characters that look like a cypher or something.

I'd recommend just turning the thing off entirely.

rpa

Does it still censor "Whisper me"?
Edit: I'm fluent enough in english I don't need translation for games, books or movies but not enough to quickly do crossword puzzles. Please don't make game chat one.

Sanctum74

It’s an adult rated game have you tried Minecraft?

redspecter23

You hit the nail on the head. The filter is doing the job so well that it makes reading what should be normal speech impossible so people that might actually want the filter on, still turn it off.

kadochka

rpa wrote: »

Does it still censor "Whisper me"?

Yep.

Saelent

Moaned at if you do, moaned at if you don’t.
Just imagine the number of whiners there would be if they didn’t have a profanity filter, hell, if it didn’t have the current level on place I’d put money down that there would be an opposite to this thread.

“I am young and this profanity filter does not shield my eyes!!!”

TheShadowScout

Sometimes I think those profanity filters are the worst. But then I remember...

Sengra

Welcome to the world of non-English-speakers where it's always been like that.

Ryath_Waylander

rpa wrote: »

Does it still censor "Whisper me"?
Edit: I'm fluent enough in english I don't need translation for games, books or movies but not enough to quickly do crossword puzzles. Please don't make game chat one.

Thanks for finally clearing that one up for me. I'm an english speaker and I thought that Whisper me was being censored because it is usually spam It's often a game for me, and an education after googling swear words I would otherwise never have learnt, to try figure out "Guess the swearword".

If they enabled chat in the loading screens, it would at least give me something to do to pass the time.

Neoealth

Just turn the filter off and deal with any swearing like an adult. Just ignore it and don't allow it to bother you. People swear, it's a fact of life, whether you like it or not.

Cirantille

Mine is supposed to be turned off but still:

Why even "farm tower" is censored?

In which language is that?

Also if my settings are in English, this shouldn't happen

There is literally no end and I know "English breaking" profanity filters from my language

ZonasArch

StormeReigns wrote: »

JamieAubrey wrote: »

I'm 30, I don't need no B A filter

I'm 40. I keep it on cause fill in the blank madlibs during down times is entertaining.

made me giggle, ahve an awesome.

Fischblut

Does it still censor "Whisper me"?

Funny, but it was the main reason I turned off this useless filter some years ago I was new player, and I saw all the guild recruiting messages in zone chat ending with censored text... I wondered why do they always need to add some profane words to their messages?..

This filter is example of very bad job I sometimes see new players repeating their text in zone chat and then being confused (cause they have the filter enabled and don't understand why their normal words are censored).

AlienSlof

I've never understood this desire to censor everything. I'm grown up, I can make my own choices, I don't need some self-righteous prude deciding for me.

Censoring legitimate anatomical terms is even more incomprehensible to me.

Human race: grow up.

redgreensunset

I don't think I've ever encountered a profanity filter that wasn't useless.

CassandraGemini

AlienSlof wrote: »

I've never understood this desire to censor everything. I'm grown up, I can make my own choices, I don't need some self-righteous prude deciding for me.

Censoring legitimate anatomical terms is even more incomprehensible to me.

Human race: grow up.

The filter on the forums is a bit better than the one in-game, but even here there are some words that get censored which always make me shake my head. I mean: [snip] Wth? I once tried typing [snip] and noticed it wouldn't let me. Protecting people from being insulted is all well and good, but if it keeps you from using certain latin words correctly, that's taking it too far.

[edited for bypassing filter]

Elsonso

Fischblut wrote: »

Does it still censor "Whisper me"?

This filter is example of very bad job

Yes, it is. This is old school tech, apparently lost to the ages and being reinvented, incorrectly, by a new generation. It is almost like text-based online games never existed.

redgreensunset

CassandraGemini wrote: »

AlienSlof wrote: »

I've never understood this desire to censor everything. I'm grown up, I can make my own choices, I don't need some self-righteous prude deciding for me.

Censoring legitimate anatomical terms is even more incomprehensible to me.

Human race: grow up.

The filter on the forums is a bit better than the one in-game, but even here there are some words that get censored which always make me shake my head. I mean: [snip] Wth? I once tried typing [snip] and noticed it wouldn't let me. Protecting people from being insulted is all well and good, but if it keeps you from using certain latin words correctly, that's taking it too far.

The problem here is that this word is used as an English slur far more often than a Latin word and I don't think the profanity algorithm have yet been invented that can tell the difference.

scorpius2k1

Just don't type anything with with the word "grape", the game sees it as something something entirely different.

L_Nici

Well the profanity filter is always the first thing I disable, since I can't even use my language without getting censored every few words.

ZOS_RachelM

Hi there! While it's alright to discuss the topic, please make sure you aren't trying to bypass the forum filter on words. It's in place for the purpose of keeping profanity off our forums — please help us keep the ESO community constructive and profanity-free by respecting that filter.

Ilsabet

Cirantille wrote: »

Why even "farm tower" is censored?

I think that one is for RMT, which stands for real money trading and is super not allowed.

Nanfoodle

I would leave the game if they removed the filter. I know many feel that way.

CassandraGemini

ZOS_RachelM wrote: »

Hi there! While it's alright to discuss the topic, please make sure you aren't trying to bypass the forum filter on words. It's in place for the purpose of keeping profanity off our forums — please help us keep the ESO community constructive and profanity-free by respecting that filter.

You're right to do this, of course, in case of actual profanities that are being typed out, circumventing the filter. But you did see the way I used the word that has been edited out, right? That's the way it should be used, there is nothing profane about it whatsoever, it's a latin word! That the filter can't tell the difference is one thing, but as an actual human being you should be able to do what the filter can't. But, without trying to be personal to any specific mods or admins here, this is often a problem on these forums: a mindless sticking to the rules without actually looking at the context first.

mikikatze

The filter sucks so bad in German that I always think of it as an April joke they forgot to turn off in year 1.