When participating in communication of any kind (chat, voice communication, group finder), you are responsible for how you express yourself. You may not use language that could be offensive or vulgar to others.
Hate speech and discriminatory language is inappropriate, as is any obscene or disruptive language. Threatening or harassing another player is always unacceptable, regardless of language used. Violating any of these expectations will result in account restrictions. More serious and repeated violations will result in greater restrictions."
Literally nothing specific about swearing / profanity. That in combination with the language filter via in-game settings supports my argument that you cannot get into trouble by just using profanity.
I only ignore on the forums and then itâs just to keep track of people itâs not worth discussing things with because they resort to ad hominem, moving goal post, or in some way are disingenuous just to keep disagreeing.
Seems every generation has their self appointed morality police.
In the 80âs-90âs it was the religious right with their assertion that games were filled with âsatanistâ, what ever that is.
In the 90âs itâs changed to a more PC based morality and now they are the morality police with their assertions that games are filled with âToxicityâ, what ever that is.
Almost never. I have no idea where you guys are running into all your toxicity.
99.999% of people I run into in this game are decent people. At least decent enough that I can put up with them for the duration of a dungeon run.
Ps. I ainât no snitch either. If someone upsets me, I take myself out of the situation and move on with my life. I donât go out of my way to rat on them like a 10 year old just to try to get them in trouble.
Whatâs the difference between profanity and vulgarity?
To me, it seems the ToS is talking about âhate speechâ, especially since the following paragraph is specifically about hate speech, but I can also see the argument that vulgarity and profanity are synonyms.
It also makes me wonder about âERPâ, âfurriesâ, etc. Those could also be argued to be âvulgarâ. Letâs not even get into what conservatives can find âvulgarââŚ
You could easily make an argument for anything being offensive, whether in a trolling manner or not, and it still be valid. Since offensiveness cannot be defined objectively, everything can be labeled as offensive⌠Because ââwho are you to say something isnât offensive to me just because it isnât to you.ââ
Itâs a problem, but thatâs for a whole other thread.
I suspect this is why ârulesâ on forums are so subjective now too. What is âoffensiveâ is up to what the moderators feel based on their personal beliefs, which can change quickly.
Trade is useless nowadays anyways. I donât have it on my screen, but sometimes I flip to the pane, and itâs scrolling multiple messages a second for selling titles and mounts. Something I will never understand.
That this is Blizzards policy is not in contention.
The problem isâŚ
They have the technology in game to filter prohibited speech. If itâs prohibited speech, why have the option to turn it off?
They can blue text until they are blue in the face, but that implies itâs not prohibited speech. End of discussion. It just does.
If the speech is prohibited at all times then we shouldnât have the option to turn off the filter or every complaint about prohibited speech should be met with âTurn on your filterâ
This is just my guess, but my guess is that the filter is to protect children from seeing it. It doesnât matter to a parent if you banned the person âswearingâ. What matters to the parent is that their child learned a word from the game.
It does seem like an out-dated policy, from a time when parents protected their children from the internet mostly, which does line up with how old the filter is.
