Chat System Anomalies - Disecting the flaws.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Dog Firestack

Try ' be your' Ed. It filters it for me.

Yup, added it; thank you. That one, I can at least understand - it must be a popular (annoying/problematic) phrase on tugabassa.

[Dog Firestack]

Ok found another one. 'But it' filtered me, I'm not sure if it will for you.
EDIT: I found aonther it's 'Dog is'

[Captain Sureshot]

Originally Posted by Edward Edgemenace

...the broad majority of players in this game, in fact, do assume they are being ignored.

Where did you get this fact? Or is it an assumption on your part?

[Dog Firestack]

Hey ed did you ever try but it or Dog is?

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Dog Firestack

Hey ed did you ever try but it or Dog is?

I've hit a series of mishaps - all Disney's fault (e.g. unbelievable lag, plus 3 to 30 second game freezes, even after significant hardware upgrades, playing a single pirate only, not even double pirating; no other applications nor non-OS services running - even windows explorer terminated.) Apparently someone must have tried "improving game performance" some more.

I'll try verifying those (and others) again tomorrow.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Added a bunch more. Trying to describe a particular British accent, ****ney, filters the entire line (understandable to filter IT but not the entire line.)

"Use right mouse to pan the camera" filters, why?

"Back up the ship" filters, why?

"Take me to Tortuga please" filters, why?

"Take off your hat indoors" filters, why?

More to come, shortly.

[Slouyx]

Not sure which part of this sentence got filtered, but, when I was explaining a book I was reading to a friend, the sentence " He made her the head mistress " got filtered.

[Mathboy2009]

i dunno what niog means buty i said there was a nig storm bye accident and it said innaproppriate word and i might be banned but i didn't get banned.

[StellaInTheSky]

Forgive me if someone's posted similar, I skimmed and didn't see it but could have been overlooked. Anyways, the word 'bit' used to never go through for me. (Stopped using it altogether unless I know I'm around Open chat peeps.) All I'm wanting to say is "Turn the ship a bit to the left" or "A bit further", something stupid like that. =/

[titanic95594]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

While the word hell in the game goes through, I think it shouldn't. I know the word has been said in the pirate movies, but you'd be surprised how many people use it in ways they shouldn't.

Tell me about it I seen GUILD names with "hell" on there! I dont know if pirates online doesnt want to be slammed by religious playes. But yea no offense it should be blocked I mean there are 10 yr old playing on there maybe younger! Plus if there Unlimited access there going to lose money!

[William ORoberts]

Originally Posted by titanic95594

Tell me about it I seen GUILD names with "hell" on there! I dont know if pirates online doesnt want to be slammed by religious playes. But yea no offense it should be blocked I mean there are 10 yr old playing on there maybe younger! Plus if there Unlimited access there going to lose money!

As I mentioned earlier ( I think in this thread) I'm 95% sure that the reason he'll is in here is because it is a contraction of he will without the apostrophe. Most contractions are allowed if you leave out the apostrophes, I'm not sure which ones aren't, but you are allowed to say things like couldve or wont and hell.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Mathboy2009

i dunno what niog means buty i said there was a nig storm bye accident and it said innaproppriate word and i might be banned but i didn't get banned.

Thanks. In the OP, I said,

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In all chat modes, there is a primary-level filter that prevents blatant obscenities, from going through. Entering that in a chat line, prevents the line from going through and displays a warning on the person's screen, warning them that their account standing is in jeopardy. Further such attempts give sterner warnings. Ignoring those can automatically block an account.

The "short list" of bad words is actually quite short - about a dozen words and maybe 5 dozen variations of them. Since most of those same terms are censored here, there is no reason to try listing those here. Furthermore, those give a perfectly clear warning.

Of interest to me (and the purpose of this thread) is to identify the "mystery" terms, that give no warning whatsoever, that DO give an indication the chat went through, when in fact, the server side filter eats the entire line of text.

[titanic95594]

Originally Posted by Slouyx

Not sure which part of this sentence got filtered, but, when I was explaining a book I was reading to a friend, the sentence " He made her the head mistress " got filtered.

I think it was mistress it means lover.

[Dog Firestack]

It was mistress. I have another Edward. It's My Asp. Got filtered for me.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Captain Sureshot

Where did you get this fact? Or is it an assumption on your part?

It is no assumption: 100% of the time chat filter has been an issue resulting in a dispute within numerous large guilds, the person filtered was offended at being ignored and said so. This is not merely dozens of times, but over a hundred times in my indirect experience. Try being an officer and mediating situations; you will find this chat filter being partly responsible almost every time.

I don't know why you would insist on your repetitious implication of the opposite. Since you have said you use other communication, you obviously can't appreciate just how frequent this is, for normal players in this game. I am assuming, based on your militant insistence, that the entire guild you are in uses some external communication method. So in-game chat anomalies do not affect you nor your guild, at all. Talking (chit-chat) as you type, it is very clear when something doesn't go through. You know within 3 to 5 seconds from the time you press "Enter."

But for normal people playing the game, it is very different. Without any knowledge of the server-side filter, the most natural human assumption is that the message did go through (because the game indicates that it was sent successfully) when in fact, it did not. Every dispute I've mediated where this chat filter was an issue, people have said that they were being ignored. Not some, not most, not merely dozens: every one.