Toxmod voice moderation.

[Xios]

So I've heard the claim "will be moderated by a human" before. WoW claims it does this and we know that's false. YouTube claims it does this to for things, which is a blatant lie. This is a worrisome addon. I feel adding easier and quicker block or mute would have been better.

More so if I'm talking to a friend in squad, our use of profanity shouldn't be a worry if it offended a mod who shouldn't even be hearing the conversation. Or if saying a swear flags a conversation and the mod is triggered over a topic of politics and religion. Human or not over moderation is a worry here.

I feel this is just going to encourage people to not use ingame voice at all and just mute it completely.

[water is not ice]

No idea if Toxmod works, but recroom does have auto mod and it works. No shot its moderated by a human though, maybe automod flags a second or two of dialogue and sends it to some poor chap in india being paid $3 an hour.

[WinterzVR]

In our case we will not be turning on auto moderation for the forseeable future, reports will be reviewed by humans. We have a dicussion channel in our discord that has a member of the toxmod creator to answer questions.

[Googledebunker]

In my experience, you need to be extremely toxic to get a ban in most online games. 99% of the time it's a legitimate violation of the terms of service, which usually includes treating their other customers with respect.

Youtube isn't even in the same form of media, so you bringing it up is entirely pointless.

If you're really that paranoid just use a 3rd party chat service to talk about your spicy edgieboi topics.

Hopefully you can use this as a moment to gain some insight into how it must feel to be the person constantly told that they need to change and avoid toxic people just to be able to enjoy the game they paid for.

For years I have had to listen to toxic people say racist and sexist things. "Well just block or ignore them" Well this is the kind of behavior that is going to discourage people from using chat.
Believe it or not but most women don't like being sexually harassed every time they use a microphone, so most of them just shut it off, the very thing you're so afraid of happening has been happening to other people.

It's great that companies are actually starting to enforce the social guidelines they put in place. Maybe my wife, sisters, daughter, and nieces will be able to speak in voice chat without spending half the session blocking and muting people.

[Xios]

Originally posted by He-Man Centipede:

I'ma just project a ton of stuff on yas here!

My stressed friend. It isn't about someone being edgy but how what mod or but determines what will be. For instance streamers playing "controversial games." Twitch's chat bots randomly decided the word trans was a bannable word. Just because of how toxic people became over Hogwarts.

The problem with these systems is they evolve and decide randomly that something harmless or normal becomes bad due to the context of conversations with those words. You then can have mods that feel certain conversations which can be completely safe, are all of a sudden the worst things a person can say.

Writing off automated systems because they aren't a game is just disingenuous. These are trainable systems that automate functions, doesn't matter if its on a game or a media platform they still function in the same or similar manner. You going to tell me youtube doesn't have a bot scanning audio for the content of what people say?

Would be far better if it was just a mute system that a player could choose to unmute the person that has been flagged. Having a separate icon above their name denoting this.