Originally posted by EsmeNhaMaire
Anyone else had a profanity warning without obvious reason?
Not a bug. That can happen easily if you are using other language than English in the text buffer.
A little while ago some of us Finnish guys were chatting in CT. One mentioned that he got muted for 10 mins for writing Finnish word "lopussa" (meaning "at the end"). He was not 100% sure what caused the ban but we had pretty good hunch, as we all know English profanities so well (isn't it curious how you learn those words first in every language ?). So, having so inquisitive minds and being rather bored (and drunk?) we started to experiment how this AI sensorship works.
After some time and many bans I think found that the 'rules' are something like this:
1. The system has obviously a database of the forbidden words.
2. The words are English only, so you *have* to have a good knowledge of English profanities to avoid them also when writing in other languages.
3. On the other hand, you can sling profanities in other languages to yours heart's content.
4. The system decides that the word is forbidden by looking four letter strings from the start of the possible word. Four letter is adequate even if the word is longer.
5. It doesn't check if the string is from the end of the possible profanity. So you can write something like "ussy".
6. Three letters are not enough, so you can write something like "pus".
7. It does not matter if this 4 letter string is a part of a longer string.
8. This sensoring works in every channel, public, country, squad and private.
9. The ban is in effect only in the arena, where you wrote the forbidden word. It does not effect other arenas.
