Crazy Chat Filter

[Rick Grimes]

Of all of my possible complaints, this one made me angry. I wanted to tell someone where I was from and guess what? US is blocked and then I tried to say USA and that is blocked as well. Such a strange game

[alanchurch]

Send a bug report (see pinned thread) so that chat filter can be edited to allow US and USA.

[Sanka Baby]

Those both work for me. However I do agree the chat filter is too intense. But they are going to improve it over time.

[Omega Haxors]

Chat filter is deeply broken because they're using an AI filter for facebook, but this is one of the cases of it working as intended; you're not really supposed to talk about the real world.

[Greb]

Originally posted by Omega Haxors:

Chat filter is deeply broken because they're using an AI filter for facebook, but this is one of the cases of it working as intended; you're not really supposed to talk about the real world.

I definitely agree that the chat filter is deeply, deeply broken and needs some serious work, especially before 1.0 release, as to not scare away any potential new players. Nobody wants to put up with messages being blocked just for saying "Damn, that sucks man. Well I hope you get better soon" or something.

Also, I don't think there are any rules about talking about the real world, or countries, or anything like that, right?

Here's what the in game rules say:

• Nothing illegal.
  
• Nothing offensive or toxic or threatening.
  
• Nothing inflammatory or baiting (messages likely to make other players angry or upset).
  
• Nothing infringing 3rd party rights.
  
• Nothing adult only.
  
• No automated chat.
  
• No swearing.
  
• No harassment or bullying.
  
• No advertising (except you CAN advertise in-game trades, i.e. trading in-game items/currency for other in-game items).
  
• No scamming (deceiving other players for your own gain, or to maliciously harm them).
  
• No gambling.
  
• No sharing of personal information or passwords.
  
• No asking others for personal information or passwords.
  
• No spamming (posting nonsense, or the same thing over and over again).
  
• No encouraging others to break the rules.

Now if you were saying "USA is the greatest country, all other countries suck ass and [your_country] should become the 51st state!" etc then sure, that'd be inflammatory or baiting for sure, I guess. Not worth being filtered, or even reported, in my opinion, just ignored / blocked, but that's me.

However just saying "Hey, I'm from the USA" or "I like it here in the US, it's nice in [state]" is totally kosher and shouldn't be against the rules at all. Even a deep conversation about politics should also be fine, so long as it remains friendly / neutral and doesn't devolve into a flame war (good luck with that though lol.)

"No sharing of personal information or passwords" surely isn't so strict as to not allow you to tell people where you are from? I don't know how messed up UK privacy laws have gotten, but surely it's not that crazy? If OP was just trying to tell someone where he was from that absolutely shouldn't have been censored or blocked though, that's silly.

Only if someone was persistently bugging you to find out where you were from or something, would be when I'd consider that to be a problem - harassment, essentially. Creepy.

But even if some dude rolled up on me like "Hi I'm from the USA where are you from" I wouldn't recoil in horror or something lol. Even if I did I'm not obligated to answer, and I could just click like two buttons and he's gone forever anyway.

Bleh. I'd rather self censor myself and let some Big Brother tier AI do it for me. I hope they change it sometime in the future.

[Fogmoz]

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Both worked for me, but you could’ve said United States, America, ‘Murica, Canada’s beard, Mexico’s hat, etc lol.

I’m not sure what their game plan is. Chat is already opt-in. Maybe they want to implement a toggled chat filter, maybe they need to form a legal disclaimer before they can, idk. It’s not like this is their first time working on a game with online chat, so… Maybe they don’t care and just really want us to be ‘pleasant’ during EA.

Personally I’ve never had issues with the filter. The few times it blocked me I knew as I typed it, it was probably questionable lol. But like for instance, I’ve been able to talk about American politics no problem.

[Greb]

Most of my blocks have been through using words like "crap" "damn" and "sucks" lol. There's been a few others randomly popping up, but nothing really noteworthy. AI filter is too finnicky, it must be taken down a peg!

Well, it could be worse, it could be like a Fromsoft filter. "I'm picking the Cryok***ht class! Care to ***ist me with this boss? I'm having trouble pre***ting his moveset."

[Ponder]

If you spell it backwards, you can type anything you want.

[Fogmoz]

Originally posted by Greb:

Well, it could be worse, it could be like a Fromsoft filter.

Worse? I think you mean better:
Amazing chest ahead
Try tongue but hole
Don’t give up, Skeleon!
Why is it always Fingers?

[munk]

if you type "This chat message was blocked" you get the "This message was blocked, as possibly inappropriate......" etc...

now that is another level of crazy