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Why is "ting e" censored in game?

Tekyn
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Just what the title says... Why is this ghetto text filter cutting off half of perfectly normal words? Yesterday I tried to say "tasting emote" when talking about the cooking animation. Today I see someone else saying something that ends in "ting" followed by a word that starts with "e". If it's for another language, limit it to people using the option for that language.

These kinds of lazy blanket filters make games feel cheap and needlessly hinder communication.
  • rotaugen454
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    I bet a lot of people will be testing that out when they log in to the game today...
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  • Turelus
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    Tekyn wrote: »
    Just what the title says... Why is this ghetto text filter cutting off half of perfectly normal words? Yesterday I tried to say "tasting emote" when talking about the cooking animation. Today I see someone else saying something that ends in "ting" followed by a word that starts with "e". If it's for another language, limit it to people using the option for that language.

    These kinds of lazy blanket filters make games feel cheap and needlessly hinder communication.

    Pretty much. Wasn't there some combination of numbers that was filter as well because it can become part of a racial slur? I forget what it is now but there was a thread on it before.

    Personally I just turn off swear filters. I am a big enough boy to not be offended by bad words.
    Edited by Turelus on June 8, 2016 7:16PM
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  • MasterSpatula
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    Yeah, I find profanity filters far more offensive than most things anyone is likely to say. I have an ignore list for the people who actually spout garbage.
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  • Tekyn
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    It did remind me to turn off the profanity filter, I'm just curious what possible reason there is for that particular filter. All I can come up with is a mental image of Butthead going "Uh huh-huh...thingy..."

    If that's really what it is I have to wonder if the person making the filter is about 7 years old. Seeing as that's unlikely...what the heck else is it?
  • rhapsodious
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    Hooray for overzealous censoring!

    If it makes you feel better you couldn't say "after" in Monster Hunter Tri. Because it's German for, um... the end of your digestive system. In the expanded edition, you could say "after", but you couldn't say the name of one of the monsters - Stygian Zinogre - because it thought you were trying to say the name of a very bad group of people in WWII (...n zi...). Fun stuff.

    I just turn off profanity filters. At least it's optional.

    e: haha, the word I was trying to say got censored in full here, but not as strictly.
    Edited by rhapsodious on June 8, 2016 7:23PM
  • phaneub17_ESO
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    People were asking what mouse they use, in-game, found out that "Naga" is censored. It must mean something bad in another language, it's not just English speakers playing this game so they probably filter out all possible languages in every version of the game.
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    People were asking what mouse they use, in-game, found out that "Naga" is censored. It must mean something bad in another language, it's not just English speakers playing this game so they probably filter out all possible languages in every version of the game.

    Naga? What do they have against argonian breeds?
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  • xilfxlegion
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    my player name in nhl games is gofah cureself. eso wouldnt let me do it no matter how i changed around the letters
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    my player name in nhl games is gofah cureself. eso wouldnt let me do it no matter how i changed around the letters

    Classy...
  • MissBizz
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    Hah. I've always turned the profanity filter off. Another food for thought, there are items in the game which will get censored in the forums. (some for obvious reason as they can be used with very different meanings)
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  • hingarthuub17_ESO
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    I saw this too. I typed "I keep getting emailed" (the constant CP 160 mail bug) in guild chat and saw "I keep gettin****ed". Couldn't understand why that was the case.
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    I saw this too. I typed "I keep getting emailed" (the constant CP 160 mail bug) in guild chat and saw "I keep gettin****ed". Couldn't understand why that was the case.

    Now that's a case of cencoring being worse in terms of dirty language...
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    Shunravi wrote: »
    I saw this too. I typed "I keep getting emailed" (the constant CP 160 mail bug) in guild chat and saw "I keep gettin****ed". Couldn't understand why that was the case.

    Now that's a case of cencoring being worse in terms of dirty language...

    HAH! So true
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  • ParaNostram
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    Turelus wrote: »
    Tekyn wrote: »
    Just what the title says... Why is this ghetto text filter cutting off half of perfectly normal words? Yesterday I tried to say "tasting emote" when talking about the cooking animation. Today I see someone else saying something that ends in "ting" followed by a word that starts with "e". If it's for another language, limit it to people using the option for that language.

    These kinds of lazy blanket filters make games feel cheap and needlessly hinder communication.

    Pretty much. Wasn't there some combination of numbers that was filter as well because it can become part of a racial slur? I forget what it is now but there was a thread on it before.

    Personally I just turn off swear filters. I am a big enough boy to not be offended by bad words.

    It's a rated M game, we can all put on our big kid undergarments and handle some heat. If you want to see real heat? Stay in online mode when in Cyrodiil and wreck some EP faces, oh the profanity you'll encounter...
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  • Elsonso
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    All I have to say is that if you Google: "ting e" profanity filter
    The only reference that comes up is this: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/270711/why-is-ting-e-censored-in-game
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  • Lenikus
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    It is probably very offensive in some language in europe.
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  • KhajiitiLizard
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    It also censored out "crafting style" for me before I realized I forgot to turn off the filter on a new character.
    Edited by KhajiitiLizard on June 8, 2016 9:29PM
  • Shunravi
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    And like that I realized how raunchy trade conversations must seem to those with the filter on....
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  • newtinmpls
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    Yeah, I find profanity filters far more offensive than most things anyone is likely to say. I have an ignore list for the people who actually spout garbage.

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    *!@#@ are you guys !@#!@!@#?

    *!@#*!@ is wrong *@!!@ filters!

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