Fix the Terrible Censoring System

Assclown321

First off, I'm suggesting this to the forums because it's a simple fix that has nothing to do with hackers, zp/gp amounts, characters, or weapons.

The main issue with Crossfire's censoring system is that it often misreads certain sequences of letters in your message and combines them to form a censored word.

"The apple is red."

Would be read as, "Theappleisred." .

The censoring system ignores the whitespace between words and scans for a censored sequence of letters.

Observe:

"The yellowish item looks cool." (the forum censor works better then the Crossfire censor, lol)

Would be read as, "Theyellowis-h-i-temlookscool." ( I put the '-' in between the word because of the forum censor)

Unfortunately, your original sentence would be ruined by the censoring system and would become:

"The yellowi???em looks cool."

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*This error was a product of neglectful and (more likely) sub-standard programming performed by the development team. However, it can be fixed by simply going over the input character data stream in the source code and taking a look at the censoring function in a similar area of the code.

This is an issue that is an annoyance for anyone who plays Crossfire and is a disgrace to the game itself. I can only assume it hasn't been fixed by now due to negligence, incompetence, or even both.


+1 ? -1? whats up?

Beefjercky

I've always wanted this to happen.
+1

its_matt

+1

Can't resist telling people to "???way your m12s!"

Urkel2005

The censoring system as of now is annoying. For example, I can't even write "nachladen" (which is german for "reload") without it getting censored.
However, I see a weakness in your proposal:
My guess is that this censoring systems was supposed to work like that so people who use undesirable words cannot use the most widespread trick to circumvent a word censoring (which is putting spaces between parts of the word).

best regards,
Urkel

IMxoxAwm

aWmgasm wrote: »

Allow us to toggle the censors on/off.

So all the 8 year old fa.g turks can still see **** when we swear.

Then again... They have no idea what an english swear word even is.

+1 couldn't agree more.

one_9

You can always go out of your way to "show" the devs a measurable alternative to help them out. :cool:

But I am always agreeing that the censor system ingame does need a touchup. It's just hard to put into words what's going on behind-the-scenes here. But know that it hasn't been forgotten, just that higher priority stuff sometimes takes the hot seat.

ElRockerr

+1 dood. It's been annoying since forever.

And people in-game have pointed out that it's unfair that you can't say christ, but my name is allowed. Lol, I think that should be fixed too

JamesHadley

+1 !!!

I agree with the censor on/off option !

The censorship system does not cover all languages : for those who understand Arabic Turkish or other languages there are shocking expressions that pass without being censored!

PapaRush

It's crazy to me the amount of swearing and cursing that happens in game despite the censoring system. It clearly doesn't serve its purpose, since people just find a way to circumvent it.

PR0X_l

+1 ofcourse..

godmorgen

+1 .

DIRTYPANDA

LMAO at one point you couldn't say muffin xD

Vigo]

+1, how can you not want this

THIS_IS_SPAM

+1. I'd say step it one foot further and add an option to Disable/Enable chat block.

CFGu

+1 all the way!
Example:
You cannot say "But it" because it will read it as "but-i-t" and it comes up as "bu???"
You cannot say "Finish it" because it will read it as "finis-h-i-t" and it comes up as "fini???"
There are so many things that could be improved!

]Impaled[

+1 is useless, annoying, and should only be used to block websites
Also what's the point censoring words when this game is all about violence.


If its cuz of age ratings, they should tweak it to do only minimal blocks, not try to block advanced text like using space or periods between cuss words, cuz as I said, its useless

M1600wner

Couldn't PM someone because of that.

+1