I was just joking,in danish it means “kiss”
The idea of full time blizzard employees reading game chat is incredibly funny to me
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Toxic players have legit money and Bob is happy
Why not level up?
Why not file a report with the police on the individual who said to “un-alive” yourself? It is an offense to suggest such things in some states, could even be federal.
If your that perturbed or that affected by it, why not skip the in-game ban and pursue a real life time out? Bigger lesson in breaking the law than breaking EULA and TOS right?
Because the phrase in question isn’t “hate speech”. It’s encouragement of self harm.
If you’re going to attempt to make it a legal precedent, you might as well get the right category. Not everything offensive is “hate speech”, hell most examples of “hate speech” aren’t “hate speech” depending on what your context or country is.
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Have kys filter to something like:
I hope you have a nice day. By the way, my mom is impressed with your manhood. Will you be my new stepdad?
Problem solved.
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Even if it’s a proper word in danish, Blizzard does have the right to hold us to English standards,like how I can’t go around saying “how” in my language because in English it’s the word for a certain bodily fluid.
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Why not go the CSGO route and do a community based sort of initial moderation?
I’d volunteer some of my own time in exchange for some sort of in game incentive. I’m no authoritarian, but I do like drama.
All for personal filters for those who wanna use them. They get their safety bubble, I get spicy undoctored conversations. Win-win.
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Just put it as an option to do during queue times.
could mean keep yourself sane or keep yourself safe
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Specifically what?
The amount of pearl-clutching I see when the topic of racist and toxic chats come up is insane. the only time I have ever seen someone say “kys” or anything like it is in a toxic way, people trying to grasp at straws to find some way to justify toxic chats are just deluding themselves.
They should make kys or ky s (there was an entire 5 stack that spammed this after they won, they thought they were clever and somehow making themselves immune to consequences by putting a space) do an auto change like they did for gg ez:
“Great game! I wish you the best in life.”
“I’m a bad person, but I’ll try to do better.”
“Sometimes my toxicity gets the best of me, but you’re deserving of love.”
“My insecurities cause me to belittle others, I’m sorry.”
Stuff like that.
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5.48 million.
Seems like a few.
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You already pointed out the flaw in this approach.
People will find ways to circumvent the system. There’s too much variation and new varied vernacular to keep up on the censorship to the point where censorship will over encompass the point of chat for even the most benign of words used.
A better approach would be to allow personal filters for players to enable themselves by typing in each and every phrase/word/acronym/thing they don’t want to see.
The crowd that wants censorship gets their wish, the crowd that doesn’t care gets their way, the trolls think they’re getting their way, everywhere in between gets their way, and everyone is in a better spot overall.
You greatly overestimate that persistence of most people, some people will circumvent it, but if it blocks most people then that sounds like a win in my books. It shouldn’t be an opt-in thing, people that feel the need to be racist or tell others to kill themselves should get bopped and that’s that.
There should be zero tolerance for those type of people regardless of how thick skinned you are.
“kys” “ky s” “k ys” “k y s”
That’d cover most of the options.
Oh and I guess your experience is the only one that’s valid, right 
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- [memelord1337]: What do you call those tall buildings that touch the sky?
- [dadman78]: skyscraper?
- dadman78 left the game
- [memelord1337]: omg lol
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This response brought to you by a community who also says things such as “Game is F2P, get banned, make new account, repeat as needed”.
So which is it? Do people give up or do they stay persistent?
Or you can advocate for the means to remove yourself (and the power these people hold over you) from impactful conversation. You win by taking power away from the trolls (rule 14 brother) not by acknowledging its impact.
Ok lol.
There’s also legislation against this sort of thing with fines and jail time in most cases. Do you:
- Pursue actual meaningful punishment that will make an impact on the way these things are handled and enforced?
Or
- Get them banned from a F2P video game for circumventing chat restrictions in interesting ways after making their 3rd or 12th alt account after their previous ones were banned (according to this community) for the same thing by enabling a feedback loop the troll is after?
Pick your poison.
I’m not going to participate in this as it is technically against the rules, but I’ve thought of about 7 or 8 different circumventions in addition to your own, and that’s excluding circumvention using alt language characters.
If Blizz isn’t interested in doing any moderation that isn’t AI automated, why would they take the time to add to and update an ever growing tedious list of naughty language circumventions when they could just give the option to players who seem fervent enough to do it themselves?
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“Just don’t get offended” is a victim-blaming excuse for toxicity. People are trying to be hurtful. Regardless of the effect it has on the target of their toxicity, the behavior itself is problematic and needs to be addressed.
“We can’t prevent every case, so it’s pointless try to address any case,” is a pretty hot take. Yeah, you can’t prevent every option, but you can make it more difficult and filter out a lot of the more casual toxicity.
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