EPTIt's annoying how quick people are to lynch Blizzard when this is merely a user issue. It's not like the map maker has been personally punished or anything like that. Just review the words that could be considered "potentially offensive in any context" and republish the map. Drama dismissed...
Blizzard bans Nexus Word Wars for dictionary words - Page 13
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Dox
Australia1199 Posts
It's annoying how quick people are to lynch Blizzard when this is merely a user issue. It's not like the map maker has been personally punished or anything like that. Just review the words that could be considered "potentially offensive in any context" and republish the map. Drama dismissed... | ||
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WhuazGoodJaggah
Lesotho777 Posts
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DarkSeerTurbo
United States105 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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comis
United States333 Posts
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divinesage
Singapore649 Posts
On October 14 2010 03:39 Half wrote: I don't see why people are arguing whether blizzard can do this, or whether it is morally sound that companies regulate there products. You're missing the fucking point. 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. That's a paradox. Monopolizing the community would inherently take away said freedoms and benefits that would otherwise be provided to the comminity. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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a_flayer
Netherlands2826 Posts
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LolnoobInsanity
United States183 Posts
That's so completely dumb, Blizzard really has changed. | ||
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LolnoobInsanity
United States183 Posts
On October 15 2010 15:52 Dox wrote: I read the first page of replies to this thread and I have to say... some people are tremendously close-minded. Why would you assume that this is the result of a Blizzard map reviewer? Each custom map has a "Report for Offensive Content" button on the Score Screen where users can submit a detailed complaint. If enough people complain about it, action will be taken (perhaps even automatically) until a suitable resolution has been reached. It's annoying how quick people are to lynch Blizzard when this is merely a user issue. It's not like the map maker has been personally punished or anything like that. Just review the words that could be considered "potentially offensive in any context" and republish the map. Drama dismissed... Wtf. It clearly says that he couldn't republish the map, that's why there was any drama in the first place. Also, imagine that you put in the effort to make and publish a map, and all of a sudden you get nothing from it because it's removed, you'd be a little upset too. Also it's not like scanning through a 32000 word dictionary for potentially offensive words (words including dyke, so you have to look through all the definitions and slang uses) is just a little bit extra work before he can republish it. When's the last time you read through 32000 definitions in a dictionary? | ||
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crappen
Norway1546 Posts
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HunterX11
United States1048 Posts
On October 15 2010 15:52 Dox wrote: I read the first page of replies to this thread and I have to say... some people are tremendously close-minded. Why would you assume that this is the result of a Blizzard map reviewer? Each custom map has a "Report for Offensive Content" button on the Score Screen where users can submit a detailed complaint. If enough people complain about it, action will be taken (perhaps even automatically) until a suitable resolution has been reached. It's annoying how quick people are to lynch Blizzard when this is merely a user issue. It's not like the map maker has been personally punished or anything like that. Just review the words that could be considered "potentially offensive in any context" and republish the map. Drama dismissed... By taking complete control over everyone's ability to play custom maps in SC2, Blizzard takes complete responsibility. If they do not want to deal with the obligation of being 100% responsible for every aspect of battle.net 2, they shouldn't design it to allow only Blizzard-approved behavior. | ||
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PTZ.
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I guess they have to either ban all or debate with all - and the former is definitely less subjective - but some of the things I hear sound overly restrictive. | ||
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YuTz
United States119 Posts
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Neivler
Norway911 Posts
On October 16 2010 02:29 HunterX11 wrote: By taking complete control over everyone's ability to play custom maps in SC2, Blizzard takes complete responsibility. If they do not want to deal with the obligation of being 100% responsible for every aspect of battle.net 2, they shouldn't design it to allow only Blizzard-approved behavior. Well that only makes things boring. Sensorship is always lame. | ||
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HunterX11
United States1048 Posts
On October 16 2010 02:34 PTZ. wrote: I find it really weird that Blizzard was so lax in their map policies back in BW (you could find everything up to actual XXX material oO) and now they are so uber strict wheareas their own campaign is pushing what's allowed in a T game. I guess they have to either ban all or debate with all - and the former is definitely less subjective - but some of the things I hear sound overly restrictive. The difference is that BW didn't have publishing, and besides that it had things like LAN play so that Blizzard had no means to prevent people from playing maps. What's so insane is that I cannot even start a private game with my friends now to play Nexus Word Wars. I can understand Blizzard being concerned about maps that are listed by popularity, but why should they care about people's ability to play private custom games among themselves? It's like they sided with the dissent in Lawrence v. Texas. | ||
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crms
United States11933 Posts
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Spoh
United States57 Posts
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Weavel
Finland9221 Posts
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Jaug
Sweden249 Posts
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