Lets make a List of NON-OFFENSIVE things blocked by the new chat filter

Myers.

Myers is blocked by the filter.

MYERS IS BLOCKED BY THE FILTER.

MYERS, THE KILLER IN THIS GAME, IS BLOCKED BY THE FILTER.

downs.

I know it can have an alternative meaning but general terms used for game mechanics being blocked is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen them do (and I remember the original Freddy nerf...)

"Trying" apparently.

It's also a very good way to maintain your section 230 immunity so you don't get sued.

I had the words 'name' and 'grind' censored. Why?

It's a private platform, not a governmental (or similar) organization. Don't make a bigger deal out of this than it needs to be.

I tried a few here after my first game today. None of them are blocked for me, currently.

Weird.

Censorship is evil, but as a better explanation of why these systems never work to begin with.

Here are 2 examples. One comes from league of legends. One common thing to prevent is people saying things like the "n-word". There are a lot of obvious reasons why they would want to ban that.

Now, what do you do when instead of calling people that word, people instead call other people "Lucian". You see, Lucian is a character in the game who also happens to be black. The reality there was, everyone KNEW what those players were saying, but they were saying the name of a character in the game.

Now let's bring it back to dbd. What will BHVR do if people start calling people "claudette" or "adam" instead of that word? Because i guarantee you people are going to do that kind of thing.

Another example. A popular acronym in some games is "K-Y-S" which people mean as "#########" so games started banning that phrase. Well now people will instead say "Keep Yourself Safe" a phrase which, by itself, sounds like something nice. But in reality, they are still saying "K-Y-S"

You can't censor speech because the people you are trying to censor will get around it by saying different things that have the same meaning. All it ends up doing is becoming this cycle where you censor words that start to negatively affect regular users. This is why the actual word choice doesn't matter, and what matters is intent. It is also why i don't believe censoring what people say is any good. Give people instead the options to, mute someone. disable chat entirely, being able to avoid playing with certain people, etc. Because you can't actually moderate effectively, when the people you are trying to moderate can just think of clever ways to get around it.

EDIT: While posting this, i actually had to change the K-Y-S because it is censored. But the phrase "Keep Yourself Safe" was not. See what i mean?

Because the problem already has a solution. People can mute, and they can disable chat. Now, instead you create more problems because you censor real words that people use. Hell you literally can't say "myers" right now in the in-game chat, and he is a character in the game. Then you have the problem of multiple languages. Something might be offensive in one language but not another. Offensive speech is also not subjective. Something one person might find offensive another one will not. The reality is, literally any idea that can be conveyed with words will offend some person on this planet somewhere.

On top of all that. Censorship is evil.