Re: Please don't ruin BF2042 with a woke chat filter

This has been said in a few other threads, but there are few things more ironic than people calling "snowflake" or other anti-woke terms (the bile rises just using these damn terms as they're all inane) because other people don't want to see racist slurs or blatant bigotry/constant idiotic spewing of random "hot" topics/20-year old memes and want a filter in.

I don't disagree with having a "filter off" option (and i'd probably keep it off myself if it's there), but that they hardcode a few things to just not be ok should not be that much of a stretch for people to understand, yet somehow it is.

So, even though freedom of speech is completely irrelevant inside a game with a ToS, since it's usually the favorite thing to hide behind, I'll simply put this.

Any freedom comes bundled with taking responsibility for your actions.

You read the ToS and still decide you feel like you should be able to break the rules because you're you and you disagree, you should be thrilled that freedom in it's purest sense worked just as intended.

If you felt like spamming the N-word (as an example) and got banned because the owners of the property exercised their freedom and booted you out of their place, or just took away your ability to act in a way they don't appreciate in *their* property, it's working as intended.

Your "banter", which was really threatening to swat another player or constantly spamming someone's profile because you happened to catch a female voice on chat got you in trouble, again, I'll damn near applaud if i see the ban message.

These kinds of things are why filters get worse and worse.

Nobody sane has an issue with normal game banter, but that's not what they mold those filters to stop, and those insanely aggressive chat filters are usually there because people were hell bent on getting around them with the usual number/letter/symbol workarounds and so in an attempt to keep the mods sane, they just blanket ban anything remotely close to the most offensive words or combination of symbols to re-create them.

If this process is too hard to understand, and the cause/effect cycle here isn't a giant hint as to *why* filters are the way they are right now, re-evaluate your stance on the concept of woke and snowflakes or "taking away my freedom" if that's what you think is driving more and more aggressive filters.

Especially in the case of the latter, you've got the chain of events backwards.

In fact, be sure to thank your anti-woke fellows, as they're the reason you can't type a full sentence or banter or act like a xenophobe, not the so-called snowflakes, they blocked you or left ages ago.

And no, i don't tend to block people either, i prefer to know who the complete muppets are, but i fully understand why quite a few don't want to put up with the cesspool that is general chat most days.