onRemotePlayerChats(obj, str) for NPC's

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Cloven

And it's relatively easy to filter out the commonly used filter evasion tactics. Most people simply just do not do it.

Personally speaking I think a word filter is useless. It would be much more efficient and logical to have an option to ignore/unignore an individual player's chat in-game, which would simply prevent the ignored player's chat from being displayed to the ignoring player at all.

If such a private filter is implemented most people would not need to try to evade it as it's so low-key that it'd be nearly impossible to tell who has their chat filtered and who doesn't. It's so non-invasive that most would have no need to try to avoid it.

[Cloven]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

If such a private filter is implemented most people would not need to try to evade it as it's so low-key that it'd be nearly impossible to tell who has their chat filtered and who doesn't. It's so non-invasive that most would have no need to try to avoid it.

I don't disagree, I just don't see the need to implement a filter where a simple ignore option should otherwise be available. If a person is truly offended by another player's chat, "filtering" one or two words isn't going to change the obvious meaning of the offending statement, thus the offensiveness still remains and the filter has just been invalidated.

Consider: "You're an a55hole noob loser." > "You're an ******* noob loser."

There is no difference between the two as both are obviously meant to be insulting. The fact that the insulting nature of the statement doesn't change is reason enough to simply have an ignore option.

Just my opinion of course, but again, I see little to no real logic in implementing a filter. Being completely ignored has a much more dramatic impact on asinine people, as it is generally the attention they garner from upsetting people that provides them with the motivation to do so. Remove the motivation, the behavior tends to change. For those people who don't care, my suspicion is that they don't care to the extent that it will lead to their no longer being able to play for other reasons (committing violations that leave them jailed and/or banned for periods of time).

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Cloven

I don't disagree, I just don't see the need to implement a filter where a simple ignore option should otherwise be available. If a person is truly offended by another player's chat, "filtering" one or two words isn't going to change the obvious meaning of the offending statement, thus the offensiveness still remains and the filter has just been invalidated.

Consider: "You're an a55hole noob loser." > "You're an ******* noob loser."

There is no difference between the two as both are obviously meant to be insulting. The fact that the insulting nature of the statement doesn't change is reason enough to simply have an ignore option.

Just my opinion of course, but again, I see little to no real logic in implementing a filter. Being completely ignored has a much more dramatic impact on asinine people, as it is generally the attention they garner from upsetting people that provides them with the motivation to do so. Remove the motivation, the behavior tends to change. For those people who don't care, my suspicion is that they don't care to the extent that it will lead to their no longer being able to play for other reasons (committing violations that leave them jailed and/or banned for periods of time).

Because there are varying degrees of what people want to tolerate? Some people just don't like to hear cursing, it doesn't mean they don't ever want to hear what a person has to say. Most of the time it doesn't even come down to insults. Sometimes people just don't like to hear/see the words, whether they are meant in an insulting way or not. If this is a private thing, why does it matter to anyone else what this person wants to censor for their own personal benefit?