Profanity filter....
So here I was playing a game and this guy comes on ranting and raving (rather justified) about how others stole his war loot. He was, of course, swearing up a storm. I ask him to stop and he says to use the profanity filter and I said "I would rather use 'report'". This had the natural response you would expect.
He also, ironically, told me "this is a drama free guild." which prompted me to calmly say; "your the one bringing the drama". He went on and on how others use so much worse. Zoning out I thought of this place; profanity happens but is often drowned out by other non swearing posts (and I have yet to recall mod action from it, the context of the message sure but not just for the profanity) and I had never seen so much swearing as with a game with a profanity filter.
My question to the weave is this;
Do you think the presence of a filter would only invite people to swear more often? Like permission granted sort of thing.
Or are my ethics too out dated for modern MMORPGs?
He also, ironically, told me "this is a drama free guild." which prompted me to calmly say; "your the one bringing the drama". He went on and on how others use so much worse. Zoning out I thought of this place; profanity happens but is often drowned out by other non swearing posts (and I have yet to recall mod action from it, the context of the message sure but not just for the profanity) and I had never seen so much swearing as with a game with a profanity filter.
My question to the weave is this;
Do you think the presence of a filter would only invite people to swear more often? Like permission granted sort of thing.
Or are my ethics too out dated for modern MMORPGs?