Disallowed word.

What's the point of censorship anyways? It never worked, people will always find new ways to get informed, a language isn't something what's never changed. It's making the life harder for non-native english speaker to contribute something to to content and exclude them from it, when common used words especially from their own language suddenly become a slur, because you don't expect such things, if you don't live in the usa. But they learn the "forbidden" word which they never would have without that filter. Hello Streisand effect. That behavior from a company is patronizing for other countries. I hate censorship, only autocratic countries are using such tools. I know that they have to throw an eye on hate speech, but they shouldn't used an urban dictionary where everybody can just write down their nonsense.

I don’t like censorship, it reminds me of dictatorship.??
However on another note, I do like Olive Oil M a y o n n a i s e.?? And by the way I’m considered white skin even though I’m less than 16% Prairie Cree (Canadian Natives)
So there.?

"Daravi;c-18286307" wrote:
What's the point of censorship anyways? It never worked, people will always find new ways to get informed, a language isn't something what's never changed. It's making the life harder for non-native english speaker to contribute something to to content and exclude them from it, when common used words especially from their own language suddenly become a slur, because you don't expect such things, if you don't live in the usa. But they learn the "forbidden" word which they never would have without that filter. Hello Streisand effect. That behavior from a company is patronizing for other countries. I hate censorship, only autocratic countries are using such tools. I know that they have to throw an eye on hate speech, but they shouldn't used an urban dictionary where everybody can just write down their nonsense.

The recurring theme with censorship and political correctness is how much it contradicts itself.

Yeah I don't think normal words should be censored just because someone might use them for totally different meanings

if we do it that way then you'll have to censor the whole game I am afraid

It's absurd. The game doesn't even allow me to share the original Goth household in the gallery because there's apparently some unacceptable word in the OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION of the household.

"KestrelDC;c-18285942" wrote:

"Denimjo;c-18285931" wrote:
It must be a slur of some sort in a non-english language. I cannot for the life of me see a problem with it. The closest I can guess is it doesn't like the word 'aise,' which is french for 'easy,' which is an unpolite way of describing women.

I think it's more like... maybe people were using it to get around filters and refer to something.... males.... produce.... because we can't have nice things and people gotta sully everything >.>

Like... c'mon people.... we can't even talk about food without someone ruining it.....

I feel your pain,Kestrel. Slang is killing the English language.....

"Lady_Ballora;c-18286697" wrote:

"KestrelDC;c-18285942" wrote:

"Denimjo;c-18285931" wrote:
It must be a slur of some sort in a non-english language. I cannot for the life of me see a problem with it. The closest I can guess is it doesn't like the word 'aise,' which is french for 'easy,' which is an unpolite way of describing women.

I think it's more like... maybe people were using it to get around filters and refer to something.... males.... produce.... because we can't have nice things and people gotta sully everything >.>

Like... c'mon people.... we can't even talk about food without someone ruining it.....

I feel your pain,Kestrel. Slang is killing the English language.....

Yeah, I LOVE the Batfamily but sometimes it feels nigh impossible to talk about Nightwing >.>

And a lot of games won't let me name stuff after him (in Pokemon I couldn't name my Corviknight "Dick" after him but I COULD name him Dickie Boy which is hilarious in battle or when looking at my team and seeing it among Pokemon just named Alfred, Cassandra, Virgil, etc.)


Edit: Whelp.... guess those frogs prove my point... (also is there any reason it's frogs in particular? Just curious.)

I don't have this problem myself because I don't upload to the gallery, but I often get notifications about forbidden words when I save lots or households in my library. It can be really difficult to figure out which word the game has a problem with, and even then, I can't help shaking my head sometimes.

For example, the German word for "neighbourhood" is "Nachbarschaft", but I can't use it because it happens to contain "a-r-s-c-h", which is a pejorative term for the part of your body that you sit on and also used as an insult. I mean, yeah, it's true, but... As a German native speaker, I have never looked at the word "Nachbarschaft" that way before, and I doubt that anybody else does. Another time, I tried to name a Mt. Komorebi resident S-u-k-i, a perfectly normal girl's name in Japan, but the game complained because according to a friend of mine, it means "b*tch" in Russian. (I have a dog called B*tch in my game, but in that case, I was fully aware of the problem and did it on purpose. After all, it's also the correct term for a female dog.)

I realise that some censorship is required for a game that is meant to be played by children as well, but it could definitely ease off on the ridiculous stuff. Maybe recognising the player's language could be a first step, so I as a German player don't get chastised for using a word that means something offensive in Mandarin, a language that doesn't even use the same letters as mine...

The only time I've even remotely heard of a use of mayonnaise as a perjorative is when someone obese is referred to as either having bloodtype = mayonnaise, or making mayonnaise noises. It's ridiculous.
It's also a well documented phenomenon in this connected society we live in. This is a link to the Wikipedia article on the subject, associated with a town in England that tripped up auto censors for usernames - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

@StuffyMarx thanks for the link, very interesting read!