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Devs, why is the name/word "DOWSEY" censored in game?
If you go in the game's chat, and type "Dowsey", the word can't be typed, and gets censored.
Here's a demonstration :
Now my question is: I've typed many Youtubers/ Twitch streamers' nicknames in chat, and any of them was ever censored.
Why did you censor this nickname Behaviour?
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Also, if it's banned from the game chat, am I allowed to talk about that nicknames/content creator in the forums?
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lol
'Jake Park' is censored as are various other character names, map names and so on
Dowsey's not getting special treatment
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I would guess the AI is associating it with "downey" for down syndrome. That's my best guess.
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I don't believe that, I've been able to type many other content creators in game, and if BHVR censored his name just because they don't like him, I'm very disappointed with them
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Ha! He aint getting special treatment!
BHVR obviously picked me out as well and decided to censor my name on steam, I see nothing wrong with it really! I mean whats wrong with Dick Snickers huh? HUH DEVS?? CENSORING ME NOW ARE WE?
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That's exactly what I was thinking as well
It censors anything close to particular slurs
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I hope it's this
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just gonna add here, I'm pretty sure it looks at player names and blocks them in chat, could be wrong but every time I've tried saying some ones name its always blocked
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We all know what he did.
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the game censors the weirdest words and weirdest timings, sometimes it blocks "GG WP" or names, another day I had "phone" blocked... it's a mysterium
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Because rather than make a censor that censors anything rational, they just picked one that is about as accurate as throwing darts at a dictionary.
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You didn't hear what happened between Behavior and Dowsey? It is not my place to air their dirty laundry, but let's just say it involved a lot of whisky and some donkeys. Censorship was the only path forward.
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sey is too close to sexy? Very hard to say ;)
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Bold of you to assume the devs have any power over the profanity filter!
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Personally I think BHVR is a little too sensitive when it comes to their fog whispers being critical of their product. Otz is one of if not their biggest streamers of DBD, and they don't dare touch him negatively, but what's funny is that him and Dowsey are good friends, and watching Dowsey be on the outside is rather sad.
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Downy is not censored, I was called that a couple of hours ago.
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had an interesting conversation with a killer once
we were having a conversation about face camping. the killer decided to face camp someone and someone was talking about how it wasn't a good strategy for the killer they were playing (pig). all censored, of course. face camp, facecamp, and facecamping were all hashed out by the game.
well, for two players.
the third one said face camp, facecamp, and facecamping all in the same message, and not a single one got censored.
bro, this filter sucks.
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Dowsey is a short form of a word used to call people less intelligent. Adding an n to the word after Dow.
It shows up on many slur libary lists, so if dbd chat uses one of those lists its obvious why Dowsey is.
Its probably to catch those people who use it by removing letters. Rather than a slight vs the streamer.
You guys can test it tho, Does Tru3 show in chat?
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but that's not even censored, look
this is a screenshot of a postgame chat that happened in another thread about pig, here's a link to the original post.
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The chat filter is stricter for people that use words that get filtered more often though. Eg tbaggers is definitely censored for me. But apparently not for this person.
i wonder how people that complain about the chat filter still dont know this.
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Spelled backwards its Yeswod maybe thats an insult somehow?
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I had a message containing nothing but the letter ‘y’ get censored. There’s nothing going on here that we don’t already know.
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At least they didn't censor the word knight :^)
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They mad he left Fog Whisperers lol
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wow...
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Actually he was kicked out for no specified reason
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Probably attitude or conduct related reasons if he wasn't given anything specific
I mean look what happened with Fog Whisperers being kicked out this year, same thing.
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The bot is supposed to censor names, it censors mine also...this is not aimed at particular people.
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