Profanity Filter to Eliminate Bad user names / nicknames of a Racist and Explicit nature on steam

[DJ Gaming]

I feel with the amount of racist and or explicit names of steam users increasing when i'm in a game of team fortress 2 is getting to a point now where it needs regulation I feel something should be done about it as there should be a zero tolerance policy to racism.

Even though I have reported dozens of steam accounts this cannot be ignored as they appear in the games kill feeds so its not easy to ignore at all and steam needs to have a profanity filter system so when you change names to make sure its nothing of an offensive and explicit nature.

if my Idea for a profanity filter is added to steam this will also free up time for the steam enforcement team to see to more serious tickets more quickly submitted and make the running of things more efficient.

The racist language can be a really bad influence on the younger player base who may be new to a game if there is people using explicit or offensive names and they could also get into trouble for using this language in the real world as it would be influenced in a very bad way from gaming online through steam.

Ask yourself do you really want to promote racism and hate or do you want to to the right thing and remove these offensive and discrimination describing words from steam for good with a profanity filter as I can understand people doing it for a and changing their name joke but there jokes are getting took too far now.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by davidb11:

That's odd, it's impossible to swear or say racist things on Steam. They're all filtered.

Are you suggesting this for something else?

Profile name. They only get censored when they are quoted in posts.

OP... I know they have thought about it but I don't think it is as easy as you would think.

[Gwarsbane]

@Ack This has been asked for many times by many people, long before the trump happened.

I'm not sure why it can't be done. Heck they could add the filter to when you go to change a name and then tell you "That name is not acceptable pick another name that does not break the rules"

But of course people will try everything they can go get around the rules and the filters so the devs and mods need to be on their toes. When I helped on stuff like this for a forums years ago, I had to think of every single variant of something that was being used to get around the filters. It was annoying but kept the forums clean. When someone did find a way around the filters, they were punished and new blocks put in. It didn't happen often as the site was not as big as Steam, heck not even 1% of 1% of the size steam is currently but we still had some people who thought filters shouldn't apply to them.

Anyway, yes it should apply to names too, again no idea why it doesn't but it could be a technical issues.

[DJ Gaming]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

@Ack This has been asked for many times by many people, long before the trump happened.

I'm not sure why it can't be done. Heck they could add the filter to when you go to change a name and then tell you "That name is not acceptable pick another name that does not break the rules"

But of course people will try everything they can go get around the rules and the filters so the devs and mods need to be on their toes. When I helped on stuff like this for a forums years ago, I had to think of every single variant of something that was being used to get around the filters. It was annoying but kept the forums clean. When someone did find a way around the filters, they were punished and new blocks put in. It didn't happen often as the site was not as big as Steam, heck not even 1% of 1% of the size steam is currently but we still had some people who thought filters shouldn't apply to them.

Anyway, yes it should apply to names too, again no idea why it doesn't but it could be a technical issues.

Im supprised steam have done very little about this

[PXL]

This is a good suggestion. I don’t see why a person should be forced to read offensive names.

[Freeasabird🕊]

Online interactions not rated by ESRB?? do you not know what that means?

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by Freeasabird🕊:

Online interactions not rated by ESRB?? do you not know what that means?

What does that have to do with this thread at all?!?
That doesn't even make sense to say here!
This is a forum! The ESRB only deals with video games!
Not forums!

You mentioned TF2, i figured you were complaining about peoples profile names while you were in game, i sort of stopped reading a little bit after that. But, people have the Freedom of speech to call themselves whatever the hell they want.

If someone wants to call themselves something vulgar so that people will hate there guts for it, they have every right to do so. hm, .. grow some thicker skin and don't be so offended by everything? you could do that. :/ there's many sick and Horrible people out there, the sooner you come to terms with that the better i say.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

A name filter could be useful for also getting rid of stuff like randomcsgogamblingsiteinusername.com.

[DJ Gaming]

Originally posted by Freeasabird🕊:

Originally posted by davidb11:

What does that have to do with this thread at all?!?
That doesn't even make sense to say here!
This is a forum! The ESRB only deals with video games!
Not forums!

You mentioned TF2, i figured you were complaining about peoples profile names while you were in game, i sort of stopped reading a little bit after that. But, people have the Freedom of speech to call themselves whatever the hell they want.

If someone wants to call themselves something vulgar so that people will hate there guts for it, they have every right to do so. hm, .. grow some thicker skin and don't be so offended by everything? you could do that. :/ there's many sick and Horrible people out there, the sooner you come to terms with that the better i say.

The thing is the names I see on team fortress 2 are linked to steam accounts as steam themselves have done nothing to stop this from happening younger players are going to learn rude,racist and vulgar names and its a bad influence to the younger generation of gamers.

[PXL]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

A name filter could be useful for also getting rid of stuff like randomcsgogamblingsiteinusername.com.

Yes! Any friend request from CS/TF2 Skins random website .com .cn .whatever, I instantly block. They’re everywhere!

[DJ Gaming]

Originally posted by leveller:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

A name filter could be useful for also getting rid of stuff like randomcsgogamblingsiteinusername.com.

Yes! Any friend request from CS/TF2 Skins random website .com .cn .whatever, I instantly block. They’re everywhere!

I agree there's far too many steam names advertising to third party scamming and hacking websites and steam has done nothing to stop this.

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by Valiant:

The thing is the names I see on team fortress 2 are linked to steam accounts as steam themselves have done nothing to stop this from happening younger players are going to learn rude,racist and vulgar names and its a bad influence to the younger generation of gamers.

Hm, well that should be up to the parents to moniter what there kids are getting into. its not steams job to babysit/raise and instil moral values for other peoples kids you know. being a parent is HARD WORK.

Parents shouldn't just let their kids have free reign of the I PAD or computer and let them play or look up whatever the hell they please when the parents want to go do something else, they should bite the bullet and raise there damn children!.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Freeasabird🕊:

Hm, well that should be up to the parents to moniter what there kids are getting into. its not steams job to babysit/raise and instil moral values for other peoples kids you know. being a parent is HARD WORK.

Parents shouldn't just let their kids have free reign of the I PAD or computer and let them play or look up whatever the hell they please when the parents want to go do something else, they should bite the bullet and raise there damn children!.

I only wish that any of this were true. But in fact parents throw money at something so they don't have to be a parent. And that's been forever - when I managed a comic store I had parents that did so little that they then had to come back of course complaining when their kid brought home something they didn't like. I really, REALLY wanted to tell them, "you stood at the store's door and handed your kid a 50$ what do you expect if you didn't actually go IN the store with them?"

I do wish that Steam's naming system would absolutely exclude things, but I do also see the issue with it. The list of things that people try to get around those exclusions is ... ridiculous. Absolutely and patently full bore lunacy actually. Spaces, dots, alt letters, number-combos, different fonts. And they WILL try everything. How many variations of hitler ARE there? I dunno, but I've reported like 2 dozen in the last couple months alone. They have to rely on reports, honestly, because the "list of forbidden things" is a manually-produced code. It's not automatic, because no computer can 'tell' what is offensive.

[Kesac]

Technically, there IS a filter on names, but there's very few things on the filter -- "Steam", "Valve", and "Administrator" are replaced with *s when used in usernames.

[KharnTheKhan]

Originally posted by Valiant:

I feel with the amount of racist and or explicit names of steam users increasing when i'm in a game of team fortress 2 is getting to a point now where it needs regulation I feel something should be done about it as there should be a zero tolerance policy to racism.

Even though I have reported dozens of steam accounts this cannot be ignored as they appear in the games kill feeds so its not easy to ignore at all and steam needs to have a profanity filter system so when you change names to make sure its nothing of an offensive and explicit nature.

if my Idea for a profanity filter is added to steam this will also free up time for the steam enforcement team to see to more serious tickets more quickly submitted and make the running of things more efficient.

The racist language can be a really bad influence on the younger player base who may be new to a game if there is people using explicit or offensive names and they could also get into trouble for using this language in the real world as it would be influenced in a very bad way from gaming online through steam.

Ask yourself do you really want to promote racism and hate or do you want to to the right thing and remove these offensive and discrimination describing words from steam for good with a profanity filter as I can understand people doing it for a and changing their name joke but there jokes are getting took too far now.

Save the children! Lol what is this the 90s? When i was in elementary(early 2000s) Most of my fellow classmates sweared and used racist profanity, Silencing/censoring steam forums/names wont change anything

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Phoenician:

Save the children! Lol what is this the 90s? When i was in elementary(early 2000s) Most of my fellow classmates sweared and used racist profanity, Silencing/censoring steam forums/names wont change anything

Perhaps YOU didn't learn.