When engaging in Chat in World of Warcraft, or otherwise utilizing World of Warcraft, you may not:The Terms of Service overrules your logic for this purpose. But what is logical reason, anyway? World of Warcraft has a T (Teen) rating, and not for profanity. There is, obviously, a "Game Experience May Change During Online Play" notice, which when combined with the enabled-by-default profanity filter is ammunition against outraged parents claiming their child doubled their vocabulary since acquiring the game.
(i) Transmit or post any content or language which, in the sole and absolute discretion of Blizzard Entertainment, is deemed to be offensive, including without limitation content or language that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, sexually explicit, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, nor may you use a misspelling or an alternative spelling to circumvent the content and language restrictions listed above…
The profanity filter exists if you or someone else happens to get offended by whatever profanity may be used in defiance of the Terms of Service; it is not license to swear. If the profanity filter caught everything and was impossible to circumvent, then there would be a logical reason to treat the profanity filter as an opt-in.
Of course, the Terms of Service aren't zealously enforced—I seem to recall a statement from a GM along the lines of "we don't care about profanity in guild/party/raid chat unless it's reported," but don't quote me on that.
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I didn't know about this... How stupid. I mean; if you get offended by profanity, enable the filter. If you don't, don't enable it. Easy as that. Though I agree that it should be prohibited to mispel offensive words in order to let people who chose to enable the profanity filter read it. And if there are any worried parents, just create an option at the site to always enable the profanity filter for that account (like the Parental Controls can control the playing times now).
This is of course another example of how mentally disturbed the Americans are. You can’t say fuck or cunt because ooh what if some kid heard it, but you can virtually kill someone that is quite alright. Of course its nonsense, there is nothing wrong with swearing, even in front of children (if you child starts to swear when you don’t want it, its because you are a bad parent) – there is also this American sickness about censoring everybody “Ooh what if i heard something i didn’t like” – well TOUGH – that’s the price for freedom of speech, you have a right to go elsewhere if people keep doing what you don’t like (and in Wow you can ignore people), but you don’t have a right to try and force your views on everybody else.
Ignore everyone who swears? Mm-hmm, sure.
hello said, "...but you don't have a right to try and force your views on everybody else." (sic)
Isn't that exactly what YOU are trying to do, though?
This "hello" dude is the real mentally disturbed sample. Really! Proof:
"there is nothing wrong with swearing, even in front of children" <> "if you child starts to swear when you don’t want it, its because you are a bad parent"
"you have a right to go elsewhere if people keep doing what you don’t like" = typical bully's & sociopath's excuse for bullying others & being anti-social in public, THEN...they follow you there, and repeat the same bullshit, so the only way to deal with a sociopath like that is good ol'cowboy way: **** him in the head. Very satisfactory.
"(and in Wow you can ignore people)" = this muppet has never used his ignore button enough, most probably because he's the one who always gets ignored, not vice versa. Blizzard, very unfortunately, is still limiting a player's ignore list to only 50 names or something, when we have 50,000 jerks & profane ***turds on every realm.
"hello said, "...but you don't have a right to try and force your views on everybody else." (sic)
Isn't that exactly what YOU are trying to do, though?" = exactly...the last proof we need is he is a mentally disturbed sociopath.
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.
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