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Perfect Balance
Norway131 Posts
The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying. Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish.. As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us.. | ||
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Jimmeh
United Kingdom908 Posts
On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote: Their new policies are quite ridiculous. The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying. Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish.. As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us.. Disable the word filter?? | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
It's minor, but it's completely asinine nonetheless. | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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Rickilicious
United States220 Posts
On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote: Their new policies are quite ridiculous. The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying. Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish.. As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us.. slut means end in swedish?! wow I'm gonna use so many shitty jokes with that. but on topic, it's kinda ridiculous, and I wish they would draw the line somewhere, but I bet activision has say in it, not just blizzard, because, HAVE YOU SEEN THE NIGHT ELF DANCE, zomg horny movements lolz. | ||
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gedassan
Lithuania83 Posts
On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote: Their new policies are quite ridiculous. The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying. Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish.. As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us.. Yes, this is bad design. They are totally not thinking about the rest of the world in this case. Although you and your friend do have a workaround in turning off the profanity filter. | ||
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raz`
United Kingdom33 Posts
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gedassan
Lithuania83 Posts
On May 20 2010 10:21 morimacil wrote: Its not really about whether you find it offensive or not. Its more about if its appropriate or not. I guess none of you are parents, most people here must be teenagers. So yeah, you probably smoke weed, and dont find names like "dopeman" offensive. To be honest, neither do I, but thats not the point. The point is, that when the game is rated for 12 and above, as parents or as a company, you just dont really want the 12 year old kid to log in, and then face off against "dopeman.dopeman", "crack.addic7ed", "mein.kampf", "gay.fucker", and all that good stuff that people some up with for names when there is no moderation. Now sure, you might not find the name "dopeman" offensive. And for example, a nazi wouldnt find the name "mein.kampf" offensive. And I suspect that drug users wont find the name "crack.addic7ed" to be offensive. But they are still inappropriate. And 12 year old kids still shouldnt be seeing that kind of stuff when they log on to battle.net. The question is not whether you as a teenager find the name offensive, the question is whether its an appropriate name for a 12 year old kid to see. Seriously, how hard can it be to come up with a name that isnt a reference to drugs, sex, or an insult? You make a lot of assumptions about the posters here - I can assure you they are not correct. Sure there are teenagers here, but there are also grown up people who do not rely on a game rating (teen) to save their kids from foul language. This system encourages kids learning about drugs, sex and insults. You can use a (seemingly) common word and get it censored out/banned/warned for it. Naturally you will go and check it out. You also make an assumption that marijuana = dope. There is a world of difference between those two. Sure, I don't want to see a lot of + Show Spoiler + "mein.kampf", "gay.fucker" However, "dopeman.dopeman" says absolutely nothing about drugs to a person who doesn't know that meaning. They will never know what it means, unless they actively pursue the knowledge outside of the game experience. I am simply saying that Blizzard should ban words that have a single direct meaning - but should not ban normal words that may mean something in slang. It is counterproductive. Of course that is assuming they are not just doing a half-assed attempt at reaching a particular rating by implementing a half-assed system and not caring about the results it produces. | ||
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
On May 20 2010 05:29 omg.deus wrote: totally wrong...dope doesn't mean just drugs...it was slang for weed decades ago and nowadays exclusively refers to heroine. doesn't matter if u hang out with heroine users or not, it's irrelevant...unless ur sheltered or grew up in the 60s u know dope as heroine and heroine only. b/c of this I can see why blizzard doesn't want any heroine related user names EDIT: did some research and I guess there are some places like Kansas where heroine isn't around so people say dope to refer to crystal meth. Still, I found that the vast majority of people thought as I did that dope only refers to heroine. way to tell me I am totally wrong when you are posting with no clue whatsoever. I am not totally wrong. You are totally wrong. Look the word up in a fuckin' dictionary. Christ. How your friends use the words isn't relevant. People use words differently all over. Especially slang. But the word does have an actual definition. | ||
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sqwert
United States781 Posts
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On May 20 2010 10:21 morimacil wrote: Its not really about whether you find it offensive or not. Its more about if its appropriate or not. I guess none of you are parents, most people here must be teenagers. So yeah, you probably smoke weed, and dont find names like "dopeman" offensive. To be honest, neither do I, but thats not the point. The point is, that when the game is rated for 12 and above, as parents or as a company, you just dont really want the 12 year old kid to log in, and then face off against "dopeman.dopeman", "crack.addic7ed", "mein.kampf", "gay.fucker", and all that good stuff that people some up with for names when there is no moderation. Now sure, you might not find the name "dopeman" offensive. And for example, a nazi wouldnt find the name "mein.kampf" offensive. And I suspect that drug users wont find the name "crack.addic7ed" to be offensive. But they are still inappropriate. And 12 year old kids still shouldnt be seeing that kind of stuff when they log on to battle.net. The question is not whether you as a teenager find the name offensive, the question is whether its an appropriate name for a 12 year old kid to see. Seriously, how hard can it be to come up with a name that isnt a reference to drugs, sex, or an insult? I put the responsibility of raising my daughter in my hands. This means that everything I allow her to do is my responsibility. If I allow her to play a game that's multiplayer then it's pretty safe to assume that the rating is an automatic M. You could try to pass off SC2 as a teen rated game I suppose and then find yourself amused as you watch a collossus burn a marine to a husk...you know with burning corpse and everything. A 12 year old is no longer shielded for society unless you have home schooled the poor kid. They've already heard all of that and more in middle school. I am already more than aware of what people on the internet are prone to saying. I mean really, people are much more likely to say things they normally wouldn't due to the anonymity of the internet. Again what your kid sees or doesn't see should rest on the parents, period. It shouldn't be on the shoulders of the company or the TV..or the school. | ||
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slowmanrunning
Canada285 Posts
On May 19 2010 06:56 afg-warrior wrote: my online name is afghan madman....am i in danger??? oh lord... you don't have long | ||
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QuixoticO
Netherlands810 Posts
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Beatus
Canada101 Posts
That said I think it's a good idea to ban/give name change to names like that even if I don't think "Dopeman" is that bad.. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
On May 21 2010 01:31 Nyxs wrote: Better not get Stimpack as your name. This reminds me that marines use drugs and at the same time Blizzard restrict nicks which mean drugs. Nice one Blizzard. ^^ | ||
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iounas
409 Posts
On May 20 2010 23:19 gedassan wrote: Yes, this is bad design. They are totally not thinking about the rest of the world in this case. Although you and your friend do have a workaround in turning off the profanity filter. ha, that is terrible.. I remember some online game that had a filter with words from many languages and if there is a single word from filter in a sentence it wouldnt even show.. So I sit there trying to chat with a friend in my language and chat wasnt showing up.. Changing some words and trying to figure out what was going on and the game banned me from chatting.. That is hilarious.. How stupid do you have to be to make a system like that when some basic words mean something else in another language.. | ||
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iounas
409 Posts
On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote: Their new policies are quite ridiculous. The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying. Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish.. As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us.. Why is lust filtered? Why is white and black filtered? Anything with "trans"? Wtf? Cant say transfusion, transport, transform, transparent...or anything from here http://www.morewords.com/contains/trans/ Seriously this shit doesnt make any sense.. What is next? I find mondays, december and letter "v" offensive.. ban that.. Terrible terrible system.. | ||
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On May 20 2010 22:01 Rickilicious wrote: slut means end in swedish?! wow I'm gonna use so many shitty jokes with that. but on topic, it's kinda ridiculous, and I wish they would draw the line somewhere, but I bet activision has say in it, not just blizzard, because, HAVE YOU SEEN THE NIGHT ELF DANCE, zomg horny movements lolz. "Out of minerals" = "Slut på mineraler" Yeah, english word filters - by default - on a product meant for international use is fun  It shouldn't even be there in the first place, certainly not as a default. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32159 Posts
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