EPTBlizzard bans Nexus Word Wars for dictionary words - Page 12
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Ricjames
Czech Republic1047 Posts
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sLiniss
United States849 Posts
 The things up there now are wayyyy better than things on WC3's customs. | ||
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Brandus
148 Posts
On October 13 2010 15:18 Fa1nT wrote: Agreed ^^ Ripping a head off a greek god? Fine. A woman who has breasts and nipples? AO!! SOCCER MOM RANT!! I though Blizzard would be better than this... At least they could of contacted the uploader with a list of words to remove. Good point.. in the campaign you can literally shoot innocent colonists into a blood smear and somehow that's OK. Puritans :-/ | ||
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TheDna
Germany577 Posts
I cant understand whats going on with them. I mean on the european server 90% of the maps are stupid fakes and every jerk tryes to copy the map and get it up in the list via bots. Those maps don't get banned... But a original map gets banned becasue of some "offensive language". That just shows how horrible the system is atm. God i hope this gets fixed asap. It was never a problem in wc3.. Really everything was perfectly fine from the get go. I played custom maps through the entire time of wc3 classic to tft and never thought the system was stupid. And i couldn't imagine before sc2 beta release how a system really could be so much worse than wc3 custom map system. So really if the aim was to really mess up custom maps, hosting games and releasing maps, i think the current system is what it would look like. | ||
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TellMeWhy
United States39 Posts
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Cyber_Cheese
Australia3615 Posts
it was quite a lot better in war3 even with all the random porn maps | ||
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Red_beard
17 Posts
Kids that are 4 years old running around and cursing even they don't really know what it means and people care about a game which says words like "dyke"...reallly? What do you expect? They come (uh, sorry, banned word) from the USA, the land where some old broad's pierced nipple falling out of her attire for 2 seconds on TV was discussed for a year as a heinous crime against morality. Blizzard is just jumping on the morality bandwagon. If they outlaw the word "come", the bigotards can't really say they didn't do enough to protect their children from the perils of being a part of the internet community. Doesn't matter these kids have probably already had the pleasure of viewing such unforgettable classics as "two girls one cup", it's important they never see the word dyke, for they may learn its true secondary or tertiary meaning. In the beta, when the language filter was on, I remember it CENSORED the word TRANSPORT (!). Apparently, trans is an evil prefix. "My marines came over a dyke on a transport" would probably get an account banned. What's next in the wonderful word of selective puritanism? I say the letter X should be banned as well. Not only does it stand for "X-rated", it is also necessary to make the terrible word "sex". There are no other common uses for this letter. Ban it! | ||
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divinesage
Singapore649 Posts
On October 14 2010 00:19 ST1M wrote: ![[image loading]](http://0.tqn.com/d/compactiongames/1/0/r/m/1/starcraft2.jpg) Notice the bottom left corner of this image. Now please stop qqing about "fascist blizzard," when all they're doing is complying with the esrb. You know they could have easily appended the "Game experience might change when playing Multiplayer" phrase below the tag.. This is just so disappointing. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. | ||
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Aberu
United States968 Posts
On October 13 2010 08:57 Astro Boy wrote: So this person didn't even know what dyke was before they looked it up. Thats so stupid. User was temp banned for this post. I think the real question is, why didn't blizzard know the REAL definition of dyke. "A levee, levée, dike (or dyke), embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river or the coast." | ||
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Uhh Negative
United States1090 Posts
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figq
12519 Posts
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divinesage
Singapore649 Posts
On October 14 2010 03:06 figq wrote: Put yourself in Blizzard's shoes for a moment. They probably just want to prevent the maps that are full of profanity, so they ran automatic filters, and got some good maps under the axe too. So now they have to re-review manually and undo the damage. It's not easy to handle such issues... The simpler way is to remove the filters and put in an option for the community at large to flag undesirable maps. Obviously those maps which are filled with profanity would receive the largest number of flags and will be brought to the attention of Blizzard. Seriously there are so many ways Blizzard can approach the problem yet they are choosing the most ineffective and unpopular one. It makes me start to think if they have an ulterior motive behind all that.. | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
The question is how does the company creating a system designed to give them full monopoly over user created benefit benefits the user, aka, the end consumer, aka all that (should) matter to you. Arguing anything else is just being a corporate shill. Throwing misguided fanboying out the window, does anyone actually want words such as "gay" and "dyke" to be subject to arbitrarily censorship and punishment on b-net for themselves? Anyone? Anyone? Exactly. | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
Thanks Blizzard, I know how I'll call her next time a lesbian pisses me off. (doesnt happen everyday, but who knows). | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France7889 Posts
On October 13 2010 08:54 agorist wrote: Blizzard is full of dykes. User was temp banned for this post. I must have really shitty humour because I giggled at every post which got a warning or a ban in this thread. Stupid easy jokes are so efficient  | ||
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omnigol
United States166 Posts
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
In a sane world, it'd be the other way around. A non-profane word that's co-opted as slang should only be deemed offensive if it's clear from context that the intended use is offensive. Are they banning the word "fairy"? It's only offensive if the context is "you're a fairy". Or is the standard used the vocabulary of the lowest common denominator morons who don't know that "dyke" is used for anything other than denigrating lesbians? | ||
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Pandonetho
Canada321 Posts
I just hope that it's possible to reupload his map after removing the word. | ||
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agorist
United States115 Posts
On October 15 2010 05:55 Biff The Understudy wrote: I must have really shitty humour because I giggled at every post which got a warning or a ban in this thread. Stupid easy jokes are so efficient Good thing TL has admins that are no better than Blizzard. | ||
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chipmunkrage
Canada51 Posts
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