Profanity filter

[luke]

I know idea isn't new but maybe good idea to use it.

Can be implemented very simple with regular expressions

Lagabuse bot already has input filtering, you just need a list of swear words transformed into regular expressions to match against each input line and just not show matching lines.

Maybe won't bring a lot but its easy and fast to do and can prevent unnecessary swearing since many type in rage and then regret

[Sejanus]

Communist...

What I mean is censorship is never the right thing to do.

Also flame is good, family flame. Isn't.

[Jimmy]

Communist...

@Sejanus
If you are posting in Official section , make your post related to the topic.
Section is opened for posting , but still is an Official section.
Make your posts relevant, this isnt Offtopic.

[AntlermanXXL]

I did a large research about profanity filters in real games once and will reply in very short terms here

Most of simple solutions are very bad (for example, your regular expressions do not cover everything, has lots of false positives, hard to maintain, etc), most of them do not care about tricky obfuscation

There are paid solutions, entire services with advanced profanity filters (according to selected language corpus), then AI that detects hate speech, then, if 2 methods are failing, there is entire squad of real people who are handled those rare unsolved cases manually

It is possible to create such service ourselves, but it requires lots of resources
Considering we have a free-to-play service here, not enterprise one, - development will be very expensive compared to using paid profanity filter service for us

Or not using such filter at all;
Basic profanity filters are trash

Not deery at all

[luke]

So you are suggesting to make a AI model? We could  try this as well.

Also i didnt mean that it should cover everything, just most common flames is enough and it just skip lines, doesnt apply bans so false positives arent very big problem

[AntlermanXXL]

So you are suggesting to make a AI model?

Did not suggest it

[cen]

We could add a very dumb filter but then we actually have a lot of non-english speaking players so we would need to add native language curses etc.. and people woud break the filter by adding stuff in words and chnging them around slightly.

Not worth the effort.