Posted by Narcosis

There's a lot of words that are censored just because a few 11 year olds use them in a negative way. Two prime examples are "sex" and "gay". There are plenty of times I've used both words in mature discussions. I didn't even realize they were censored until recently. Don't think it's necessary.

My biggest problem with the censorship system is when you send a long PM and get either "no advertising" or "do not try to bypass the swear filter" when you've done neither, and your message doesn't send, and is lost.

Of course the reason for the "no advertising" message is that you typed a period (to end a sentence) then started a new sentence with the word "come" or something like that. The system reads that as ".com" and you get the "no advertising" pop-up. Similar things happen with the "do not try to bypass the swear filter" message. It's especially annoying when you don't even know what part of the message it thinks you're trying to bypass the swear filter in, so you just have to fiddle with the wording till it goes through.

At the VERY least, it should show you which part of the message is causing the problem, and take you back to the message afterward instead of it just being lost. Example:

The following part of your message breaks the no advertising rule:
"Hey man, it's been a while. Come to my GH"
Please edit your message accordingly.

That would be a much better system, since I understand that fixing these "false-positives" isn't really an option (from what I was told when I brought this issue up a while back).