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[Novakaine]

Game Time: 13:45
Place: Canyon Network
Blue Team 0 - Red Team 4
13:45 "Nova's flanking B3 can I get some support we can get behind them.
13:02 No response.
12:25 "Come on we're getting slaughtered here.
11:43 Blue Team 0 - Red Team 6
11:30 One heavy responds, but soon see a squirrel and goes nutz then goes after it.
11:09 Blue Team 1 Red Team 9
10:56 Blue Team 2 Read Team 10 Crab assault mech dies as it tries to turn waddle away - Nova gets a kill.
10:42 Nova dies a valiant, but useless death again after 6 matches in a row.
10:32 Nova stares at screen of a disco'd mech - not that would have made a difference.
10:29 $@%#^#&@*@@(@@(*#%^#%$)(**@##%#&*! - @*#*^$%#&@(@()!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you wonder why.

[InspectorG]

Darth Mech, on 27 January 2015 - 02:27 PM, said:

Thanks for the (belated) welcome, but I’ve been lurking and surfing the “interwebs” as you call it since ArpaNet became UseNet.

Why do people think a word filter will change human behavior?

They are pretty easy to work around. And kids and trolls get creative.

[Darth Mech]

InspectorG, on 27 January 2015 - 04:04 PM, said:

Why do people think a word filter will change human behavior?

They are pretty easy to work around. And kids and trolls get creative.

No one expects a word filter to change human behavior.

A very simple word filter would mitigate at least some of the most extreme trash.

Those types of filters have been proven to work, year after year, in games that far exceed MWO population.

If you can't accept that, then you are just part of the problem, because you just shrug and accept the status quo.

Edited by Darth Mech, 27 January 2015 - 04:28 PM.

[Xythius]

Darth Mech, on 27 January 2015 - 04:22 PM, said:

No one expects a word filter to change human behavior.

A very simple word filter would mitigate at least some of the most extreme trash.

Those types of filters have been proven to work, year after year, in games that far exceed MWO population.

If you can't accept that, then you are just part of the problem, because you just shrug and accept the status quo.

Again, no, we just accept the fact that some things are outside our control and are able to live with that. You are in essence trying to legislate morality by filtering things YOU don't want to see from other people that are ok with what they are seeing.

The UI is clunky enough without having to dig around and find a new 'feature' to turn off. If this status quo is so offensive, then simply turn your chat off. Viola! Problem solved.

[Kristov Kerensky]

Darth Mech, on 27 January 2015 - 04:22 PM, said:

No one expects a word filter to change human behavior.

A very simple word filter would mitigate at least some of the most extreme trash.

If you can't accept that, then you just are part of the problem.

No, it wouldn't, at all, just go look at the games that DO have filters but have no active game moderators in them and tell me people don't get around the filters constantly.

Kali and NetMech..ah that brings back some memories, and you are incorrect, I remember some rather epic ranting going on in Kali, especially in the GC, man could some of those folks go off. The unit I'm the XO of, SRM, were rather abusive and foul mouthed on Kali on a daily basis, as were many other units at the time. We carried that over to The Zone when MW3 and 4 were played on it, filters be damned, we'd use ASCII or simply use words from another language that didn't get filtered. I've been the head of or an officer in a number of units over the past few decades in online games from MW2 to Tribes to Battlefield42/Vietnam/2 and WoW and DDO and more, and cussing was pretty common in every one, both in the public and league gaming.

Again, you are the guy who wrote that letter to the editor about going to the strip club and seeing naked women.

[InspectorG]

Darth Mech, on 27 January 2015 - 04:22 PM, said:

No one expects a word filter to change human behavior.

A very simple word filter would mitigate at least some of the most extreme trash.

Those types of filters have been proven to work, year after year, in games that far exceed MWO population.

If you can't accept that, then you are just part of the problem, because you just shrug and accept the status quo.

They work? Coulda fooled me. Nintendo and Sega have pretty strong filters...which fail.

Part of the problem? Or perhaps i value Freedom of Speech and personal expression, even if it is ridiculous?
Last i checked this isnt a kids game. Adults swear and say vulgar things.

Why does that hurt you so?

It is not very hard to counter a troll without resorting to swearing, i do it frequently. I do if if people use overly sexist/racist/homophobic/etc language.

Making bad words go away doesnt solve the bad behavior in the world. It just deludes people into thinking it doesnt exist.

Me? 'status quo'? We should talk politics some time. Then make that statement.