A GM recently gave someone I know a account-level warning due to "inappropriate language use" in in-game chat. They used a common swear word in /say. The F word, to be appropriate. F- This, to be specific.
The only reason I can imagine for a person to receive a warning for something like this is because someone possibly filed a complaint? My response to this is that there is a DEFAULT-TO-ON Profanity filter/Blocker for in-game chat. You don't want to see bad language, leave it on.
This is a completely ridiculous situation. While the account level warning may not be a huge thing or not, the principle of warning people for using language that the game has a filter to block automagically is quite stupid and heavy handed.
At any rate, I wanted to let my displeasure at such absurdity be known.
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The only reason I can imagine for a person to receive a warning for something like this is because someone possibly filed a complaint? My response to this is that there is a DEFAULT-TO-ON Profanity filter/Blocker for in-game chat. You don't want to see bad language, leave it on.
This is a completely ridiculous situation. While the account level warning may not be a huge thing or not, the principle of warning people for using language that the game has a filter to block automagically is quite stupid and heavy handed.
At any rate, I wanted to let my displeasure at such absurdity be known.
Continue reading...