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Think of it like this. Just because a police officer walks out in a bulletproof vest - itâs not an invitation to open fire.
The filter exists to try and help shield minor children or people who just donât want to see people spewing vulgarities. Mind you, itâs not a catch-all because of how people try to âmaskâ their language. Itâs not there so that people can just let loose.
Nah, and I apologize if thatâs how it came off. Orlyiaâs turn of the phrase is exactly the vulgarity that most players would recognize, not the slur youâre alluding to.
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Right I get that, it just seems counterintuitive to say using profanity âcan and willâ have your account actioned yet still also giving players the ability to do so.
If profanity is wholly against the rules and the profanity filter filters it, why give the option to remove the profanity filter so you can use/see profanity? Blizzard had to go out of their way to include the option for you to remove a filter for things that are implicitly against the ToS.
It would be like saying itâs against the rules to play the game with more than 3 action bars even though there is an option to turn more on.
The game is rated for 13+ right? So children younger than that shouldnât even be playing. It just doesnât seem to make sense to me that, if Blizzard donât want people using profanity, and by extension donât want other players seeing it, why give them the option to opt out of the profanity filter? Remove the ability to turn off the profanity filter and the bad words wonât be seen by anyone, but if they still want to action peoples accounts for using words that get caught by the filter then go right ahead?
Also np just confusion over wording is all.
It isnât necessarily a blanket allowance. Guilds have a little freedom with some colorful language as you are willingly signing up to be a part of that atmosphere, for example. Whispering your friends? Go hog wild if you know they wonât report you.
Public channels like trade and general do not have that kind of protection.
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You can use profanity in game, but just be very very mindful. Talking smack in a party made entirely of like minded close friends is unlikely to amount to anything since your friends wouldnât report you. Same with small friend based guilds. While you can and could be actioned, like minded folks tend not to report each other.
Itâs when you say in bigger group chat, instance, or world chats that you get dinged if reported.
Filter can cause more harm than good, Sir Jigglesworth (the mount) not being allowed to be said in game is an amusing example. Filters are also by and large not overly great and easily bypassed. Could it be better, definitely, but that may just not be worth the effort right now. Or ever I guess.
Anyway I do want to give you kudos to owning up to your actions. Itâs refreshing.
You may not agree with how Blizzard implements the filters it does have, but at least you know itâs not a pass to use some language now.
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I understand what youâre saying, but the wording of the ToS and statements from Blues implies that regardless of if itâs in guilds or whispers, it is still actionable.
I donât and it doesnât make sense to me. But dems the rules
Also thanks. As the blue response said in reply to me, nothing I really said was particularly over the top, just let my frustrations get the best of me in Blitz too often. Iâm really not an overly toxic person xD
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Why canât you just scream at your screen. That takes a whole lot less effort than typing something out and hitting return. Just donât do it too loudly our youâll upset your neighbours.
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Where is Mirasol with the quote from a SFA from 2006.
She posted it already. 
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Whatâs the point of bulletproof vests if your still not allowed to shoot people?
The filter is an extra layer of protection against players that just canât seem to help themselves⊠like you.
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This comparison is terrible because blizzard can just choose to not allow the words to be typed into the game. We canât just remove guns from irl
And we canât just remove words from a game, unless we remove ALL words.
Blizzard literally can just remove the ability for those words to show up in the game by not allowing you to turn off the language filter
They canât simply filter out the unwanted words, because then they run into the Scunthorpe problem.
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OP it really feels like youâre trying hard to deflect blame and responsibility for your suspension.
It really isnât hard to self-censor what you type BEFORE you press enter.
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I meanâŠread the thread? I openly accepted responsibility for things I said that warrant a suspension. I said things against ToS. I deserve a suspension. I still donât agree with the rule around disallowing any profanity and especially do not understand why you are able to turn off the profanity filter if profanity is against ToS anyway.
When YOU turn the filter on or off, it only affects what YOU see. It is not there to stop YOU from writing profanity.
Filtering, while it seems an easy solution, isnât. The amount of filtering required will impact those of us who donât use profanity etc when playing.
Why should we have to when weâre not the ones who canât self-censor?
As mentioned before, the filter is there to protect those who donât want to read profanity from people who canât censor or control themselves. Plain and simple.
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Also see: grapefruit.
This is actually a good point here. Why not simply have the filter engaged for all players all the time? Why even give players the option to toggle the filter off?
#dfmb
You have been here long enough to know exactly why the filter exists, and why it can be turned on and off. Even with the filter on, players are not allowed to use profanity, masked profanity, slurs, etc.
The question is now 20 years old and has been answered so many times it is a dead horse, as it was back then too.
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Of course I do. The filter is an important tool to help make the game atmosphere better for everyone.
Actually, I donât know why the filter can be turned off. Why not just have the filter engaged at all times for everyone?
There was no need to be so condescending about it. My question had nothing to do with the purpose of the filter. I was only asking about why weâd even have the option to turn it off?
#dfmb