I had an idea, when I was looking at .NET - Chat Filter | Skyblock Forums <-- Inspired.

Staff. They should be able to look at the word said that can is starred out. Also, it should allow more words like "grapes" <-- Come on now.

I say that Staff members should be able to look at the word said because if it is not an actual curse word, or inappropriate word, what is the point of muting, banning, etc. Take this situation for example:

Friend: Hey, what did you eat for lunch yesterday?
Random_Greenie5: G***** <-- (Grapes)
Mod: Random_Greenie5, Please do not curse. Keep the chat G-Rated.
Random_Greenie5: Im not cursing!
Mod: It looks to me that you are.
Random_Greenie5: GR4P3$
Mod: has warned Random_Greenie5 for evading chat filter.
Random_Greenie5: I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!
Mod: You evaded chat filter.
Random_Greenie5: Gr4p3$
Random_Greenie5: Gr4p3$
Random_Greenie5: Gr4p3$
Mod: has tempbanned Random_Greenie5 for 5 minutes for "evading chat filter multiple times. Warned before."
Friend: Unban him! He was telling me his lunch yesterday!
Mod: Sorry, too late.

-- Friend & Random_Greenie5 leave and never join again. --

I'm saying that mods should be able to do this.

Friend: Hey, what did you eat for lunch yesterday?
Random_Greenie5: G*****
Friend: Huh?

Mod sees this:

Friend: Hey, what did you eat for lunch yesterday?
Random_Greenie5: Grapes
Friend: Huh?

 

I understand your point here, but there’s a thing wrong here.

I would let the first thing slide, and calmly explain that the word “grape” contains a word in the filter, and suggest avoiding the word or substituting it with something else.

The second part however, is the user knowing the word is in the filter and purposely spamming and filter evading, which warrants a temp mute.

All in all, the filter should be changed, but rules are still to be enforced.

 

Using the word grape is totally fine in my opinion, unless you find a way to use it in an inappropriate, or a harmful way. The only word the word grape is censored is because it has the word

in the word. The plugin just detects that word in the word grapes, and blocks it. Saying the word grape should not be punishment worthy, at all, unless it is used in an inappropriate way. At one time, the word muffin and grass were both censored because they both contained inappropriate words (I don't know why muffin was blocked). The easy fix should just be to unblock the word from the filter, along with some other silly words.

 

I just witnessed this Situation this morning on minechat where a moderator warned someone for saying Grapefruit and was like "seriously?". Ironically those Kids where just talking about how ridiculous it is this word is even filtered.

A moderator's Job is to moderate, to keep things moderate but also to be moderate in his way to moderate (and I put this moderately). They have to enforce rules, not laws. Otherwise it's a Police (although I have experienced members of the Police who were much more able to "let it slide" when noone was hurt).

The specificness of rules is that they can be legitimately broken if everyone can agree with that and noone is hurt. And I cannot believe anyone disagrees with the fact the word "Grapefruit" or "Grape" or "Bass" or whatever can be said on a minecraft Server. EVEN if it's just a cocky manner to trigger this funny filter (who really deserves that fun is made of it).

Seriously, I cannot believe that the staff Manager / owner condones this so I wonder if clear directives are forwarded to the Moderators so they can do their Job in a way that doesn't make the Players flee from the Server.

As Krissy said, those words got an increase in usage because of this odd Situation. Like some Streisand effect.


EDIT: on second thought, I don't understand why the word "Rape" is censored in the first place. It is not a swear word, it isn't even an offensive word, it is just a word for something very bad, like the words "death", "cancer", "murder", which aren't censored.

 

It is meant to be a G-Rated chat. Rape is more of a PG, or PG-13 type. <-- I'm just guessing.

 

However, we must try to keep a G-Rated chat.

 

Maybe, maybe not. It's not like there is any authority watching upon the skyblock chat ready to shut down the server whenever someone says the f-word.

Anyway, warning for saying "Grapefruit" isn't necessary for being g-rated, whatever the reason for saying that word might be. Some mods need to calm down and stop to behave like a robocop, or the hype over the new server won't last long.

 

Fully agree.

 

Most of the mods are chat mods now honestly

 

The chat filter has been updated.

 

I just tested it, has the update been implemented already? Because if it has, grape is still filtered.

 

Honestly, filtered words are there for a reason. I don't see the problem of a word coming up as "****"
Even it were to be a curse word, unless you really bypass it, nobody is going to know that the word being said, is actually a curse. It's filtered for a reason. Now if somebody spams, or actually bypasses it, by showing the word, like
"f#!k", then that's debatable. When somebody says "grape" and turns out to be "g****", you can assume the word, but there's no point on kicked/ muting or banning the player for this action.

 

I know the word was removed from the config file. If you have access to /gc you could check the server uptime. Might not of restarted.

 

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