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Why are 'deal' and 'joke' banned words?

Title says it all, bit too much with the 'profanity' filter?

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  • colley94
    colley94 Member Posts: 100

    'sorry mate nothing I could do there' is also profanity it seems!

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,713

    The chat censor is honestly pretty stupid. Last night I noticed that the name Frank is censored. I’m guessing it’s related to Frank being one of the killers in Legion, but I can’t for the life of me understand why that would be a reason to censor the name.

  • MrMori
    MrMori Member Posts: 1,706

    Remove chat censor and let me disable the chat completely with no option of turning it back on unless you change a setting and restart the game.

  • Funky_lPunk
    Funky_lPunk Member Posts: 47

    it also censors gg wps, boil over, toolbox or medkit, as well as many other perk names and in-game feature terms

  • White_Owl
    White_Owl Member Posts: 3,786
    edited June 2022

    My best guess is that the chat filter randomly picks the words to censor.

  • Brokenbones
    Brokenbones Member Posts: 5,233

    The filter has some weird 'contextual' thing that tries to detect certain things or certain patterns I'm guessing? It's probably censoring certain words because they are 'flagged' as being work-around for other slurs or something like that

    I'm pretty sure there's also some kind of 'personalisation' to it because some people can say stuff and not be censored but others can.

  • ihateboons
    ihateboons Member Posts: 167

    BHVR can't even properly code AI for the tutorial. So this actually makes a LOT of sense.

  • Zeidoktor
    Zeidoktor Member Posts: 2,065

    Why are 'deal' and 'joke' banned words?

    Because the profanity filter's whole deal is that it's a joke.