I really don't find it necessary to censor things such as GG, or GF. I guess I can see why you would want other things such as l2p and ez to get censored, but I find it highly unnecessary for some the things you listed. Why would you need to censor GG? It really isn't that bad of a thing to be quite honest. When somebody says GF, they are just saying good fight? It shouldn't really make anybody angry when people say those 2 things.
Refer to this part:
- Abbreviations like "GG" and "GF" are changed to their polite counterparts, "Good Game" and "Good Fight". "GL" should, likewise, be changed to, "Good Luck".
It's not entire censoring it, it's changing it. What makes people mad is when someone says GG and the person takes it in an offensive way. If it was automatically changed to Good Game, then people won't read it as "Get Good." Likewise with GF - It SHOULD mean Good Fight, but some people interpret it negatively, and take it to mean, "Get f*cked". It's all a mental thing, and how a person sees it. Some people really do mean Good Game, and some don't.
Here's my 2 cents on this topic.
This can easily be implemented, its just as easy as a .replace(".", "") method. The thing is, its not the time it takes its the amount of .'s and stuff people can put in, there are way to many different things and it would take some time. If the developers take their time out and do it, it would remove things like f.*ck etc. etc.
GetRektM8 can be removed by simply blocking, "rekt". Bukkit would automatically find "rekt" and remove it. The part where you say "check for spaces" is just about impossible. I mean, it would take logging messages into arraylists and comparing etc etc.
Gotta sleep now, will update later.
Thanks for your input. I don't know the exact limitations, so I did anticipate the possibility that checking for spaces and/or punctuation would be difficult or impossible to implement.
I feel that this is important enough of an issue that the Devs should take some time and do something like this if it is approved by the staff/admins, etc., as it could do nothing but benefit MCSG. They don't have to implement all of it, but the more steps that are taken, the better.
Unfortunately theres never going to be a way to filter out things like that, humans will simply always be able to get around programmed swear filters.
But eventually, it could become annoying enough that they don't take the time to do it. If they need to do things like "p0 t.-4t0" in order to finally be able to say "potato" (just an example) then people won't really want to spend that time typing it in order to get a single word out. And it just looks absurd.
It's a great idea Moo...problem is I think I have seen threads about this already :/ But still a great thread!
I'm pretty sure I have too, but I haven't seen any gain a lot of attention. One of the things that is both a blessing and a curse about being a "recognizable" forumer (gosh that sounds so cocky ;-; ) is that things that we say gets attention, even if it's only a half-baked idea. It's like saying if a brand new Mod were to suggest MCSG V3, they wouldn't get a lot of attention within the staff, but if a Col were to say it, they'd get serious thought and consideration.
Oh, and we also make it sound fancy
Thanks for all the feedback, btw c:
