Community Guidelines (Profanity Filter)


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So, over in another thread, Chris Lambertz, pointed out that the Community Guidelines have recently changed, and Ashiel raised some questions about a section that was a bit odd/confusing.

Since the question didn't get addressed in the original thread (and wasn't related to that thread itself), and I am curious to hear a bit more on this particular question/point, I thought I would re-post the question here, in the hopes that it will be addressed.

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Chris Lambertz wrote:
Removed some posts and responses from over the weekend. Guys, we know that tempers and emotions can run high, especially in discussions concerning rules and mechanics. Please remember that the person you're talking to is still an actual person on the other side of the screen. It may have been missed, but we have revised our Community Guidelines recently, and I invite you to read them over if you haven't yet. In situations like this, it's probably best to remove yourself from the situation, get away from the keyboard and take a breather, and send us an email (community@paizo.com) if you think a thread requires moderator attention.
Ashiel wrote:

I was reading the new guidelines and I found something that doesn't make sense. Under the section for profanity / vulagar speech, it says:

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Trying to get around our profanity filter or purposefully obscuring profanity/vulgar phrases is not acceptable.

This is exactly what your profanity filter already does. Why does obscuring vulgar language violate the rules? Isn't that something that would be, y'know, preferred?

I'm not sure I understand how the Paizo language filter isn't breaking your own guidelines like this. Take for example a post I made (intended to be jovial) involving a genie and screwing up your wishes. If the phrase was:

"Genie, you're going to grant me a wish and this time you are not going to explicative description it up! >:(" (I think this just actually violated the guideline actually)

Then there's the shorthand for explicative which is to casually censor to the post but keep the gist of it for people who know what you're talking about, which reads like this:

"Genie, you're going to grant me a wish and this time you are not going to **** it up! >:(" violates the rules because it's obscuring speech that could be offensive.

Meanwhile, if not wholly censored, the Paizo language filter would make the same come out to look something like:

"Genie, you're going to grant me a wish and this time you are not going to f@&^ it up! >:(" which is also breaking the rules by obscuring the speech that could be offensive (though it also hints at what the word was to begin with because it only partially censors the word).

Is this a typo in the community guidelines or did you guys mean to automate breaking your own rules?

Other than that, I think the new guidelines are good.


That does seem a bit odd. It's never good to have ambiguous rules and policies.

I suspect what's actually meant is that you can't obscure the word in such a way that a filter wouldn't pick it up, but it's still plainly readable to any human. For instance, suppose "Hello" was a vulgar word and I wrote "H3110". That's plainly readable to a human, but a machine would have to pick up on the substitutions to filter it. I think that's what they mean by oscuring.


H E L L O
He-lL-o
H-E-L-L-0
H_E-L*L^0
HE_LL0
H_ELL-0
H,E,L,L,O
H+E+L+L+0
He not have the Energy to reLate to your disLike Overtly.


Yeah you don't even have to try that hard, if post preview is any indication you can just put a dash in between each letter.

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Really? Questions about changes in the profanity policy and you post here with THAT username? You do realize this could have negative repercussions for you, yes?

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is it because the K and the SS are capital?? Kuntass is (i can only guess) a family name of a powerful and prideful norwegian boating family.

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*squints at Nephril with a great deal of suspicion*

That sounds... Dubious at best.

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