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EA_Cade
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4 years ago

Re: Racial slur widely used in gallery

Hey all,

I've merged these threads together to prevent spam. This issue was re-escalated to the Sims team for investigation on Thursday, we are currently evaluating how best to address this issue with the gallery and how content filters and flags are implemented.

This is one of those things that I may not have updates on for a while as we're dealing with several departments at the moment, but silence ≠ nothing being done.

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  • Strangelovekraf's avatar
    Strangelovekraf
    4 years ago

    This is fantastic news, thank you EA_Cade for your update!

    This is no doubt a complex issue to solve, and just hearing it is being investigated is wonderful. 

    As I understand the question, there are at least three factors to this that probably need to be looked into and it would be unreasonable to expect a solution overnight.

    Those would be; 

    1. Finding a balance for automatic systems so they would not let through offensive content but also would not become overzealous towards Sukkah, your neighbour Nigel or Count Vlad's in-game description.

    2. Defining a line between what constitutes "Sims-styled cartoonish stylistic choices" and what is offensive stereotypical representation. And

    3. Finding the guidelines and resources to do the manual labor that no doubt has to be involved with some parts of this process. 

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