Why Dismiss Sexual Chat Harassment?
I reported a player in Battlefield 6 for blatant sexual harassment during a match in team chat. He made repeated crude, sexually explicit comments directly about a family member, including descriptiv...
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I get muting/blocking is an option (and I did that) but the point is EA's Positive Play Charter and User Agreement Section 6 explicitly ban harassing, abusive, sexually explicit content in chat, no exceptions for 'it's just a game'. If they make the rules, they should enforce them, not leave it to players to self-moderate. Real-world sexual harassment doesn't get dismissed with 'just walk away', and neither should in game equivalents. Dismissing it like this is why the community feels unsafe for some players.
This isn't just about the points I make; it's about the hypocrisy and potential limits that a user can hit due to biased decision-making. If moderation depends on 'mood' or backlog, then it's random and unfair, NOT real enforcement. If I emailed EA support, posted this on their forums about moderation, or said the same words directly to an EA employee/moderator, I'd likely be banned or sanctioned instantly for 'abusive/harassing' content (as per their own rules on forums and User Agreement). Yet players are supposed to accept this kind of sexual degradation from the in-game chat? Why should users tolerate behaviour that EA itself won't accept when directed at them?
EA's Positive Play Charter (the main document outlining their community guidelines), repeatedly emphasizes creating a positive, fun, fair and safe gaming environment for all players. It is their Slogan.
This isn't isolated - it's systemic inconsistency. EA prioritizes easy AI wins (slurs, cheats) for PR/transparency stats, but manual reviews for nuanced harassment (my case) are under-resourced, slow, or lenient.
I miss the good old times, when the world wasn't full of sensitive people that feel offended by absolutely everything. And no you can't compare it to anything real life related, because it's nonsense, if you are not face to face with each other. It's probably juvenile twelve year olds that think about sex all day or other weirdos. You can't fix that with lots of censorship or reporting etc. they will always exist. It's a lost battle and a huge waste of time, if you simply can mute/block/ignore them somehow.
If you feel triggered or harrassed by all that, that is also a problem from your side, because they like to troll especially ppl like you who feel offended. You are the one that makes it an actual problem, they think they just fool around. But you take it seriously and feel offended. So what you fight against only exists because you pay so much attention to it and feel triggered by it.
This is one of these things that you can really stop with just pushing a button like I said, if you don't want to push the button, it's your own choice then, because you CHOOSE to be harrassed, alltough you have the option to stop it.
If I notice annoying ppl I usually just turn off chat and that's it and if their gameplay itself is annoying me too, well then I leave the server.
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