Lord is not allowed either…
For the name thing Titles are not allowed. That is why that is filtered in that name creation field. It is not that they are bad, just that they are reserved.
Not having an option to disable it is ridiculous. Not all game lobbies are public, some are private with friends. Blizzard shouldn’t be censoring how we choose to talk to each other.
Give us the option to disable it. There’s no reason not to.
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Blizzard doesn’t want to deal with people getting upset at profanity. That’s why you can’t turn off the filter.
I can’t believe there is no chat filter.
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So… for 20+ years we go fight THE DEVIL… IN HELL… and we pk each other at will, but a couple words just can’t be said because feelings? What kind of Chinese commie crap is this? I guarantee most of the playerbase is age 30+. Talk about an aspect of the game that didn’t need to change…
Also, which version of D2 did they make D2:R from? I remember when LoD first launched, Cain was near the gate in Act 5. Then they moved him to the portal for us. Now he is back by the gate. Details, Blizzard. Details.
Diablo also always had a really good community, imo. One of the best in any multiplayer game. Everyone in game is usually helpful. So there is really no need for a filter. Plus, if you don’t like what someone says, just go duel about it.
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“Plato’s Cave”
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No one swears so incredibly bad as the swedes, go Ronny & Ragge! 
Rofl, you’re hilarious. Let’s just make a sexual video but filter the chat for people watching these because hey, the video is rated R but the chat is not rated! So we must keep it kids friendly.
Literally make no sense. As simple as it is, it’s not about what is rated “individually”. It’s about what comes as a whole. The entire content of D2 is blood, gore, violence and a bunch of half naked “heroes” using dangerous weapons and magic to violently chop off demon’s head with blood gushing out. But hey, forget all that! We’re keeping the chat kids friendly because it’s rated separately!
Yeah, you’re attempting to defend something pointlessly but by the book when it doesn’t even fit the logic of it. That’s why people are arguing with you. It makes no sense and yet you’re throwing “Code of Conduct”, Term of Service, EULA, and more. Like bro, yeah, we get it but that’s not the point. The logic behind a game that’s rated M without any option to filter profanity is literally braindead.
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I think it’s her job to try and keep the peace and defend the company at all costs, even if deep down inside she knows it’s wrong.
Which it is. Any honest person could admit that.
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Except the reality is it is rated individually. The game content by Devs is rated the the panel. The organic player generated content is not - it has to follow the Code of Conduct, whatever that is for the company.
Telling you facts is not defending or promoting. It is just point blank neutral. That is how it works. I did not give my opinion on it. Just information.
Still want this fixed Blizzard!
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Except they cover this in the rating itself with the “Users Interact” bit, which wipes their hands clean of anything said/done by players.
The ESRB ratings have ALWAYS had a caveat for stuff like that, so this has absolutely 0 to do with the games rating.
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Blood and gore but swearing oooh mah goood chat filters are always annoying.
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Just be careful when using the f word even in its shortened form. I used it in a thread to mean that classic players got “screwed over” cuz no shared stash in non-xpak, and got a 12 hour forum acc ban.
Should’ve read the forum rules, got too used to RL. Gotta be mindful of children whenever you are.
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I still don’t understand why can’t filters be in read mode!
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what happens to the player you report if they harass or insult ???
Please do not tell me it is the same result as world of warcraft where underage kids get very sensitive over simple things and Report To GM ?
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The same thing as all Blizzard games seeing as they all have the same policy and same GMs reviewing tickets.
Right click report attaches the chat logs to it for GM review. If what was said violates the Code of Conduct then the player will usually receive a Silence. That removes the chat and social features for a period of time. That time starts at 24 hours and doubles each time a GM applies the Silence.
The goal is not to get reported.
Can I appeal somewhere for removed posts?
Another post of mine was removed, code of conduct style, the funny thing however is that in that post I explained that it was very annoying that if I chat in dutch normal words are being scrambled, a word that means CAN in english (like I can or you can) and thus incredibly common word is scrambled, quite annoying also showed the word with 2 – between it otherwise it wouldn’t post.
That post where I complained was removed, the word I used was not against the code of conduct, it was Dutch, you guys have google translate look it up, its so common not even google translate will mess this up.
Is it policy now that blizzard is limiting the dutch vocabulary, I am being prohibited from normal conversation in my native language and when I explain it, the post gets removed.
Personally I think this is just one big #$%$#show now, freedom of speech is no where to be found, even if you don’t go against code of conduct.
Blizzard is by now just proving they are not a decent company and keeping the forum nice is not the goal of removing these posts.
PS: reporting does not work in D2r, I did multiple times just like a friend of mine, because some item selling sites keep spamming and you can’t turn them of half of the time but the D2r chat functions are not functioning, reporting them does not stop the spam.
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Correct. As you saw from many other posters. Private property rights are a thing in the US, and that includes the right to set rules, which includes no profanity on the forums, including masked profanity.
I would much rather Private Property rights exist than to have the Govt take over all the private companies.
The word you used, as you noted, is a masked profane term in the US (and several other places). You are posting on an English Language forum so they will not take into account that it means something else in a diff language. You know that, because you said as much in your post. You knew it was a profane term in English and were joking that is a common word in your language.
I had this looked into the day after release. The Report function does work, and if enough unique reports come in it can trigger the spam squelch until a GM gets to it. Otherwise, reports sit in queue to be reviewed along with reports from all the other games.
What seems to be BROKEN is that reporting does not temp ignore/squelch the spammers - which is what happens in other Blizz games. Reporting at least makes you normally not have to see them. Further, the Block function on the Right click does not block chat in Lobby from the spammer! That seems to be a bug, I hope.
There was nothing constructive in that post that added to the forums other than to express your thoughts about the filter, and to use masked swear words. If you did not get suspended, take it as gentle warning not to do that.
No, not really. You can appeal a forum suspension, but not removal of a post. I have tons of mine removed all the time because whole threads get nuked and mine are in there, or I reply to someone who is breaking the rules and when they get removed, my posts make no sense - and the mod takes mine out too.
I explain policies sometimes - and discussing forum or account moderation is against the forum rules so those tend to go “poof”. As long as I stay away from explicit discussion of actions on an individual account they seem ok with generic policy level discussions.