[Question] About the chat filter

[feer_marx]

Hello there!
I’d like to stay on the anonimosity, so i won’t be mentioning more than being a Silute player for about 2 years.

To start with, i have always been against the concept of chat filters, as it’s something pretty trivial and inefficient (c’mon, we all know that if you put a dot on the middle of the word, you bypass it in atleast 99% of the games…), it also ends up censoring regular words by mistake and making communication somewhat troublesome.

But as i’ve been talking to a friend of mine (who gave me the idea to bring it to the forums), we started to wonder why is the word “gay” censored.
It is not an offense to be gay, and censoring it makes it feels like it’s something not accepted, against the rules, on the company’s vision.

For that reason i would like to know, from the Staff, why is the word gay censored if the only words that are censored are either swearwords or words that could be used for sexual harassing someone (oh, by the way, you guys censored only words related to the female genitals and
~neutral stuff~, if you know what i mean, nothing about males. You might want to give it a proper look too).

Oh, and if IMC is open for improvements, i would like to suggest the removal of the word ‘gay’ from the chat filter.

Thanks for the attention

@STAFF_Letitia @STAFF_Ines @STAFF_Yuri @STAFF_Amy @STAFF_Ethan @Staff

[Ersakoz]

[anon55982834]

1st of all, the primary (although it’s already a bit old) bearing of the word gay is happy, 2nd after that is colourful,it got nothing to do with the likes of some specific special interest groups.
We e.g. learned in our school subject English that gay means happy,lively,bright(ly coloured).

Whatever some 1938 film introduced as an overly streched term of the sexualized term “gay” (meaning = frivolous/without morals) should not be up for discussion but stay in the gutter it came out from.

Also, in that context, judging from where the term got a pejorative connotation(i.e. in reference to impure sexual behaviour), why do people even use the word to describe that kind of “activities”, even the “actors” themselves use this term, thus accusing themselves of “sodomy”?..

Gg for shooting their own legs, they deserve a prize.

2ndly(and most importantly), this games(i.e. TOS’) chat filter is one of the worst kind. It even filters the word “Hunter”, although it’s a Class of the Archer tree for “the goddesses” sake…

[feer_marx]

Hello there! But please do note that the word ‘gay’, despite it’s origins, is used nowhere in the world as happy, lively, bright anymore.

In fact, most of people (especially from South America, where this concept was barely introduced, and it’s important to note that the SA server is the biggest ‘international server’ for tos!) aren’t even aware about that meaning, as it’s something relatively old, and it’s meaning, as the meaning of any existing word is subjected to change as culture and society itself changes.

Also, please note that the focus of this topic is not to question why homosexuals use the word gay, but why it is censored, because neither the old meaning nor the new meaning have a reason to be.

[marrun]

Most people use gay as somesort of cursing/bad word anyway …its nowhere near “happy” or “colorful” lol
Btw…are you sure “hunter” word got censored tho?

[Ersakoz]

Hunt was censored a couple of months back. I raised the issue during a GM meet up and Guava mentioned it being a german slang/swear word (?). Sadly my guild name was TaltHunter QQ. Talt****er