Some North America realm (i.e. Zul’Jin) have a high concentration of French Canadian. Meaning the trade chat and other public channels have a lot of French discussions. Which is totally fine by me as Canada has 2 official languages (English & French).
There is a high level of toxicity (insults, vulgar/sexual character names) on those communities. Because the spoken (written) language is French, and more specifically French Canadian/Quebecker, the report option yield nothing to low result. Without naming anyone directly there are some people with very explicit name concerning the male genitalia but written in French with slight “typos” to make google translate fail in showing what it means.
The language also has very colored slangs that is easy to cheat any translator so the words are not recognizable, yet someone who speak fluently French Canadian will know it’s intended to insult someone.
My concerns are not that people speak French, I myself speak French. My concern is that we are letting this toxicity sit still and fester. Someone who speak English or Spanish that would do the same thing (from toxic chat to sexual name) would have actions taken quite fast.
Having GMs from France checking those reports will not help as French from France & Canada are very different. Especially on the slang and insults.
Could Blizzard look into those matters and support French Canadian communities. Maybe even having French realms if that helps finding GMs to support those realms.
Thank you.
Edit : I hope people will not jump into the whole insulting of Quebeckers (a classic in Canada) or laugh at the French language, this is not the goal of this post, but to find constructive solutions to a problem that are being handled in other languages in North Americas realms.
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You might get more traction on reports if you use the box to explain what it was that was offensive. I imagine that even if they have support reps that took a couple of years of French in High School, there’s a lot of nuance that a non-native speaker would miss if not for an explanation.
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That is what I usually do, but trying to explain what it means sometimes might take more than the 200 characters. Explaining a whole paragraph/sentence ain’t clear. I miss when a GM would poke back to get clarifications. It was easier to explain it.
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It’s funny cuz Quebec isn’t even french if you ask anyone from France
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Why do newfoundlanders hope Quebec separates?
Because then it would be a shorter drive to Toronto
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Dude please go outside and get some sun rays. It’s not that deep. If it’s stressing you out this much maybe turn off your computer and go find a safe space.
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Maurice Chevalier agrees. 
Keep it up and suggest that they test out the name in a translator on google in the report box.
But I want my Spartan inspired warrior Teasticles to shine like the star he is!
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Dang, didn’t realize we were gunna have such a cool guy posting
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Im a french Canadian and i can tell you right now most of Qubec vocabulary is swearing. It’s not really swearing. Your probably just reporting people for haveing regular conversations.
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Google Translator won’t pick up slight modifications to a word. Like I said in the post, a clever change to one word and google translator fails.
I don’t believe I was trying to come off as cool.
I work with enough people from France to tell you that they like to complain within themselves as well about their French. So your indirect insult to the language can go elsewhere.
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Haa made me laugh. Tabernac that was good.
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you’ll have to write what the word actually is they are bypassing too. You won;t get banned for that as you’re just trying to help
Hope you’re successful
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I wanna insult Quebec more though
Just stop being offended by a name.
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Blizzard has policy in place for masking words, though you can’t mask a name because it can only be letters and masking is stuff like M**key and $hrubbery So I don’t know if a name with “typos” would qualify as breaking the rules assuming their name is something like Menis or Yagina.