Profanity Filter

[tinycat]

This post is just a minor rant about something irrelevant and likely unworthy of consideration.

It deeply bothers me that now Valve has decided to apply their profanity filter in people's personal profiles' infoboxes, summaries, and name under the username. Instead of just keeping it where it should belong, the forums and comment sections.

Before on your profile, you could type down any profanity word, and it would not be censored.
And this was never really a problem. For the most part, there was only mild profanity there.
But now they brought those little hearts there, too.

I think this filter is more suited for public forums and comment sections, and that personal profiles should just be left alone.

And now, even that isn't allowed. And it just doesn't sit well with me.
Does this bother anyone else, or am I just being too much of a crybaby here?

Interestingly enough, you can still use a profanity word in your main username.

Regardless. What are your thoughts on this?

[Spud the Spud]

Profanity filters are set up backwards. They prevent anybody from cussing. Instead, they should prevent a user from seeing in on their end, not prevent anybody from doing it. This would let people who don't care view the full content, while those who do care don't have to, and everybody wins. Plus, that way there's no need to institute or deal with a ban policy over naughty words. You saw words you dislike? Here's a link to the help page for how to adjust your filter, have a nice day.

[Ramonkey]

Is it working? I've set it up to not filter, but I'm still seeing hearts

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Spud the Spud:

Profanity filters are set up backwards. They prevent anybody from cussing. Instead, they should prevent a user from seeing in on their end, not prevent anybody from doing it. This would let people who don't care view the full content, while those who do care don't have to, and everybody wins. Plus, that way there's no need to institute or deal with a ban policy over naughty words. You saw words you dislike? Here's a link to the help page for how to adjust your filter, have a nice day.

It is set up the way you want though.

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ramonkey:

Is it working? I've set it up to not filter, but I'm still seeing hearts

Read the Labs page again. It tells you where it is filtered.

[Spud the Spud]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Spud the Spud:

Profanity filters are set up backwards. They prevent anybody from cussing. Instead, they should prevent a user from seeing in on their end, not prevent anybody from doing it. This would let people who don't care view the full content, while those who do care don't have to, and everybody wins. Plus, that way there's no need to institute or deal with a ban policy over naughty words. You saw words you dislike? Here's a link to the help page for how to adjust your filter, have a nice day.

It is set up the way you want though.

:qr:

Most places it isn't. I wasn't speaking of any one specific site, but more online in general.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Spud the Spud:

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It is set up the way you want though.

Most places it isn't. I wasn't speaking of any one specific site, but more online in general.

Valve has taken the first step in going against the common way. Trying to set some type of trend for their online community that will hopefully change the way other sites do things.

[Captain Morgan]

Pointless rant. There is no profanity, if you alter letters to sound exactly the same.

Beach, two at etc. Be creative.

[Ramonkey]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ramonkey:

Is it working? I've set it up to not filter, but I'm still seeing hearts

Read the Labs page again. It tells you where it is filtered.

:qr:

It's working now. Had to restart

[Fox Loaf Liz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Captain Morgan:

Pointless rant. There is no profanity, if you alter letters to sound exactly the same.

Beach, twoat etc. Be creative.

Bypassing the filter. Not a good look.

[Adversary]

I don't think anyone should be censored, regardless of who they are, what they say or what they think. I think that if you disagree with someone, you should debate them, not demand that they be silenced.

That being said, Valve doesn't want angry calls because little Jimmy saw something online that his mother Karen didn't like. Because Karen doesn't want to do her damn job as a parent and would prefer to blame anyone but herself for not being involved in her child's media consumption.

Valve in turn realizes that there are enough people like her to make a dent in their bottom line. Since corporations care only about money - and if you think otherwise I have some oceanfront property to sell you - they in turn will appease anyone and everyone who could be perceived as a threat to said bottom line. This appeasement generally tends to be directed at the mainstream. Which includes people like Karen.

So I understand why they do it, but at the same time I disagree with it and think that parents should just do their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job instead of letting technology raise their kids for them.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Captain Morgan:

Pointless rant. There is no profanity, if you alter letters to sound exactly the same.

Beach, twoat etc. Be creative.

Bypassing the filter is still not allowed.

[Captain Morgan]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Mona Lizzard:

Bypassing the filter. Not a good look.

Circumvention and workarounds. Very useful stuff. Going through the fine print and get off without complications, or getting caught.

Wait now... Did i actually say, "get off"? At least two of its synonyms, the filter prevents. This, it doesn't, even though it is a perfectly harmless, completely innocent looking, pair of words. Correctly spelled, even! Philter is so medieval, anyway! Never count on artificial intelligence and programming, for security, protection, or prevention.

[SMIFFY]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Captain Morgan:

Pointless rant. There is no profanity, if you alter letters to sound exactly the same.

Beach, twoat etc. Be creative.

Bypassing the filter is still not allowed.

:qr:

I bet you would have loved living in the GDR.

[Captain Morgan]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Bypassing the filter is still not allowed.

:qr:

There are no dirty words. Only dirty minds. He he

[Tito Shivan]

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Excarius:

Should be optional to me...

It IS now. That's the point of the bump I gave it.

:qr:

And just like happened wih reviews comments I've already seen complaints on why the default state of the filter has to be 'ON'
Which IMO offers an interesting subtext on user behavior for future analysis. Interestingly It seems it's still not enough to have a filter toggle, it also has to be disabled for everyone by default.

Opprinnelig skrevet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Bypassing the filter is still not allowed.

Correct. The rules have NOT changed despite this new feature.

[Ramonkey]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tito Shivan:

And just like happened wih reviews comments I've already seen complaints on why the default state of the filter has to be 'ON'
Which IMO offers an interesting subtext on user behavior for future analysis. Interestingly It seems it's still not enough to have a filter toggle, it also has to be disabled for everyone by default.

Give them a hand and they will take your whole arm