Quote Originally Posted by BiTzSam View Post
I haven't looked at the responses but I don't see this ever happening. Regardless of freedom of expression or not, iEra has an app store rating it must uphold, and allowing this would be breaking that.
I agree with Btzsam on this.
I like the idea of being able to turn off the swear filter but unless they change rating from 12+ to 17+ its not going to happen.
Who do we have to get through in order to change the app store rating?
I don't have a clue.
I like the idea but its pretty hard to get ideas through on Graal.
Graal genrally doesn't have a good reputation on being customer focused.
Most staff that makes the big decision doesn't even play the game.
I'd vote for yes to turning off the swear filter, but having an election under a dictatorship wouldn't matter because no matter how little votes there are there can only be one winner.

Quote Originally Posted by BiTzSam View Post
Additionally this feature would make it a lot harder for PRs to do their job in being able to distinguish who does or doesn't have the filter turned on, and the feature itself would just encourage more toxic behaviour which iEra doesn't need anymore of.
IMHO words in of itself are mere adjectives.
Adjectives in of them selves are harmless, the problem is with the intention behind the words.
Theres a difference between a cop saying ''put your F@cking hands up in the air'' & calling some one a f@cktard.
The former being used as an emphasis to communicate the seriousness of the situation & the latter being used as a means to insult & hurt

The structure of the game is a dog eat dog world nature full of competitive kids with big egos & trying to show off as much as much as possible & act superior.

Banning the words won't change peoples nature & structure of the game.

They'll just find a different adjective to hurt people that isn't considered culturally explicit but when used in the right way acts in the same way as any other ''curse'' words.

EG
Garbage/ balls/ trash as what it is & calling someone scrub garbage, trash no balls etc.

Maybe if your intention was finding out whos bypassing the swear filter eg @sshole but if you''re trying to stop toxic behaviour & saying the options encourages more toxic behaviour no chance.

Toxicity is part of the nature of the game like how much backstabbing & corporate drama there is office drama its not the words that hurt people its the actions & intentions & ill will of people that hurt & no amount of policing will increase or decrease the bad nature of people without addressing the structural built in issues.

We can dress up & give the illusion that it fixes something or we can start being honest with ourselves & just admit that swear filter is total BS & do away with it.

Blame the people & jail people who are harassing but don't block out the words which are harmless by themselves.