figurative bile, not literal.
this is not your backyard.
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If itâs not allowed they should just ban the words. Though considering teens hear those words and worse by 7th grade I donât get why they want wow to be more and more like club penguinâŚ
They did that in the M rated Blizzard games like Diablo Immortal and D2R. People just get around it with symbols, spaces, etc. Then they get reported, get penalized, and get upset that somehow they were âallowedâ to break the rules.
People are responsible for their own actions. It is not up to others to prevent someone from breaking rules. Nobody stops me from picking up items in someone elses yard and walking off with them. They are not chained down. However, I know that taking them would result in me being penalizedâŚand trying to say âbut they had total control over that lawn gnome and it was not chained down so they meant for me to take it!!â Would not work.
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If you think a curse word is vile that is your sensibility talking⌠Itâs usually based in religion and I will be honest I donât really care
at one point, the censoring on the forum was so strict, that we couldnât discuss drapes.
no.
they shouldnât ban the words.
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This is the same mentality as people who use âwell I donât see a signâ as a reason to do something that the basic human brain knows they shouldnât do.
And why thereâs now warning labels on antifreeze telling you not to drink it.
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Other than the banning what is the consequences of cursing vs âkid-friendlyâ version?
Why do they make people clutch their pearls less than the real word?
Do we believe it is actually cursed and to say or hear it will damn you in some way?
Thatâs silly
iâve always found it weird that the US doesnât put a bittering agent in their antifreeze.
such a minimal cost to the consumer, with life-saving results.
âŚespecially seeing how many people use it to poison other people.
if someone put aussie antifreeze in your drink, youâd know about it 
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I wasnât talking about consequences. I was talking about asking for a âdisclaimerâ on something thatâs very evidently against the rules. Everyone still cusses but a scant fraction of people ever get reported for it, then cry because âI donât see a signâ.
They would. Isnât that what the TOS should be for? But thatâs not what Iâm talking about. If Blizzard doesnât want you to type X, they can literally make it impossible to type X. Itâs their game.
Blizzard has all the power here. Itâs not like players are swearing and they canât do anything about it. They can make them unable to swear.
Why allow players to type it at all? And itâs not some âOh this would be too hard to codeâ scenario; they have a mature language filter already⌠extend it to words that are per se against the rules.
E.g. Blizzard doesnât want players to scam other players for gold. Do players find ways around this? Yes⌠but it also means that the Auction House, as a mechanical system invented by Blizzard, is going to work with an escrow system that holds the item being purchased.
The TOS is nice, but itâs not nearly as powerful as Blizzardâs actual, physical and technical control over how the game functions. This is like Blizzard entrapment: Let players type ____ so we can punish them for it later.
You can only steal a lawn gnome if you end up breaking it - Horde
Itâs definitely not entrapment. They donât go looking for it.
We also have the ability to choose our words especially typed.
I type How I speak because of my own sense of logic and morality. Itâs my choice.
Blizzard can make it so though. If the absence of the word X from the game is the ultimate goal, whatâs more effective, letting players type X and punishing them afterward? Or making X untypeable?
They do have control, literally, over the inputs the game recognizes. Like scammingâagainst TOS, players find ways around it, get punished. Does that mean Blizzard are going to let you scam people on the Auction House? No, theyâve designed the game to hold your item in escrow before the sale.
i donât think that at all.
nor have i ever used the term âcurse wordâ, thatâs not a term which my culture uses.
why would religion have anything to do with⌠anything? lol
i donât know.
do you?
youâre the one who keeps saying âcurse wordsâ
there are at least 2 disclaimers you need to click past just to play the game.
i already explained this.
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if youâre in a guild with like-minded players who donât feel the need to report you for swearing, you can say whatever you want⌠why would they want to take that away?
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Itâs easier to tell you not to do it than it is to continuously and forever add words to a laundry list
Ultimately these types of rules are unenforcible. Sure you can ban people but youâre never going to stop it.
Because other than epithets thereâs nothing wrong with them deep down
I can cuss in Sicillian and Japanese i think im safe
mooOOo moo MooOO!
(the forum didnât think those 3 words were a complete sentence) 
No you didnât. You arenât understanding my point. I donât dispute that people find ways to say naughty things; I question why Blizzard, if their goal is the absence of word X, allows you to type word X.
if youâre in a guild with like-minded players who donât feel the need to report you for swearing, you can say whatever you want⌠why would they want to take that away?
Thatâs specifically why I asked if certain words were per se violations.
Per se=in all circumstances.
The community council member said âYes,â now youâre saying, âNo,â which would explain why there is no filter.
with an inability to type certain words, people wouldnât be able to link items for sale.
i donât know how much more clear i can make itâŚ
last i checked, you couldnât report a guild member.
not sure if thatâs changed.
however, if there was some horrific chat which someone decided to report manually, it would still be actionable.
Welcome to humanity. Where most decisions are based on emotional response and because your mum told you âthose are bad wordsâ so you canât use them.
Thatâs it. literally. There is no other reason than that.
Itâs because our government likes enabling people who mix it into cat food and whatnot to kill stray animals. There is absolutely no reason to not make something that kills you if consumed absolutely horrific to smell or taste other than to make it easy for normies to kill eachother and other things
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