Steam swear censoring- I don't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ get it?

[.triple Cat]

So I can play ♥♥♥♥ games, games like viscera cleanup with tons of uncensored gore and violence, games like Agony where you can rip babies out of women's wombs and eat them- but I can't see swear words???????? Lay off your fat asses and add a option to turn off the damn filter.

[J4MESOX4D]

Games have age restrictions, the forums don't. There's really no need to swear here either. It's not mature or clever.

[Ogami]

Diposting pertama kali oleh G3n4o:

Lay off your fat asses and add a option to turn off the damn filter.

You mean the option that is prominently displayed in your account preference settings?
THIS option?

http://prntscr.com/uzf52e

I can read your post without hearts just fine because i turned the filter off.

Maybe next time before going on a rant, at least LOOK if the thing you want is already implemented.

[Nx Machina]

What you see in game has no relevance to a swear filter on the forums.

More importantly you are NOT the only one using the forums.

Swearing is not a requirement just a way to be edgy.

You must go to Starbucks and ask for a ******* coffee.

If you had actually used the search function you may have found an answer.

[nullable]

I love to swear, but I do just fine writing on these forums without it. Call it art from adversity...

[Mad]

Yah it pisses me off, too. I would imagine that a large portion, if not the majority of Steam users are of legal age. Not that 12-year-olds on the internet are spared exposure to scary-bad-words anyways (or ♥♥♥♥, or violence, or gore)...

Even when I want to change my Steam username to something like "D/C=u.a.b!tch" I can't use the real b-word - it changes it to those politically correct little hearts...

I don't see how a platform that sells games where you can pick up hookers in your stolen car, have ♥♥♥ with them, and kill them - feels the need to censor swear words. Seems gratuitously silly.

(And as for the 'games are age restricted, forums aren't' excuse - well that is still by design. Steam could easily add a disclaimer, a check-box that you have to accept before using the forums - you know, the same way a 12 year old can click the check-box on a game saying they're 18...)

[Milk Duck]

Diposting pertama kali oleh J4MESOX4D:

Games have age restrictions, the forums don't. There's really no need to swear here either. It's not mature or clever.

swearing is like punctuation. its effective when used correctly. now go ♥♥♥♥ yourself (im attempting humor in case that didnt translate well)

[.triple Cat]

Omfg this has never came up in any discussion about this topic anywhere all the answers every time are "You can't lol" even from mods, thanks guys.

[.triple Cat]

I turned it off and I still see the hearts- which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome- hope it just needs time to apply or smth for those wondering you go to account details click on preferences to the left side and scroll to the bottom

[löyly]

Yeah, I always thought that was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous. "Family-friendly" is teaching kids that killing creatures is cool as long as we call them monsters and there's no blood and stuff and the good characters are cute, but we gotta protect them from Bad Words! They can see people discuss war games and brutality, but they can't see terms that typically refer to normal bodily functions or that pretty much have lost their original meaning anyway. And people insulting each other? Well, they better learn more subtle ways for that because that's so much nicer...

The option in account preference settings is only for chat, not for the forums, reviews etc. and I see no good reason for that.

[Walach]

Am I the only one who, when seeing those hearts, try and decipher which swear word the poster used? :P

[löyly]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Walach:

Am I the only one who, when seeing those hearts, try and decipher which swear word the poster used? :P

No, you're not

[crunchyfrog]

You might think it ridiculous but the issue is you're conflating two separate things.

Games are sold on the storefront. Forums are community based communication. As ushc not only are they entirely subject to different standards, but it's not at all weird. Because a storefront, whether selling ♥♥♥♥ games or not, is age regulated. You cannot access that content unless you fill the disclaimer of the age gate in.

However, on the forums there is none of that.

Plus, the clear difference here is that storefronts are items listed by companies with at least a modicum of standards and liabilities. Not so private individuals on a forum.

So I can perfectly understand why it's there.

And yes, I swear like a trooper. It's called empathy.

[󠁳⁧⁧ 󠁳⁧⁧৫]

What you play is none of our business but some don't want to read your profanities in the forum. You can turn off the filter bdw.

[crunchyfrog]

Diposting pertama kali oleh chanluci586:

What you play is none of our business but some don't want to read your profanities in the forum. You can turn off the filter bdw.

Exactly.

[Walach]

Diposting pertama kali oleh löyly:

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No, you're not :rathbone:

One thing I've been wondering about is if swearing is "bad" in the USA because they bleep it out, creating some sort of stigma against it?

The good thing for me is that the swearing in my main language can't really be censored or atleast not in the same way. I only use the words: "hell", "curses" and "devil". And my favorite is all together: "cursed devils hell!".

It's funny how it works when you think about it. :P