Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20140527012127/@comment-24133975-20140528200420

Squazzil wrote: I just feel like the use of swear words is not an issue in the chat - As Swaggins has mentioned, our regular chatters rarely use swear words anyway, and if an occasional troll comes in, he can be dealt with quite quickly. I hate to bring up freedom of speech, but I think that this is an issue that may bother some people that come to the chat, and feel "controlled" by a script. I have always been a firm believer in the notion that if you don't like what you see/hear, you don't have to look or listen. No one is forcing anyone to stay in the chat if they are really bothered by seeing an occasional swear word, or they are alarmed by an idiot trolling. I say if these aspects to a public chat are so bothersome, then maybe they are too young to be in there in the first place. There IS supposed to be an age restriction here, and that age range should be mature enough to shrug off some "bad" words, and not be scarred for life. I certainly don't agree with trolling, or harassing others but a script can't control that. People are just going to find ways around it anyway, and adding a script isn't a simple process either, if this wiki wants to ensure that the script is going to work on all platforms, browsers, and isn't going to glitch things up at any point, lots of testing should be done before just taking some script from another source and plopping it in here.

A few things I'd like to comment on.


 * I really don't think that people will feel controlled by the filter if they know that it is to be used against trolls. Another thing, see, I'm pretty sure that people don't use harsh language in casual online talk so if they join the chat and begin chatting normally, they'll probably not even notice the filter. I don't see how someone would complain about a filter being used for their benefit anyways.


 * True, I agree with that, but I do have to say that it should still be one of our main goals, as Chat Moderators, to keep the chat a clean place to talk about Terraria. Based on that, I think the filter would be of some aid in providing that for our chatters, as it can be used to block out some of the more foul language.


 * Trolls will always find a way to circumvent our attempts to block them. But you have to ask your self this question: Would you rather deal with a crazy, cursing, spamming out profanity troll, or a troll that is trying some other form of trolling that is most likely less offensive.

Based on that, I'm pretty sure the script is of professional quality and that it will work just fine.
 * Finally, wiki scripting is actually not all that hard to install, I've done it myself, it's actually quite simple.
 * I have already tested the scripting myself and it works just fine.
 * The user who made, or installed, the scripting is a pretty trusted user.
 * He's an Admin on this wiki: http://minecraft-computer.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jeff16306
 * A Chat Mod on this wiki:http://minecraftpocketedition.wikia.com/wiki/User:Jeff16306
 * And he's an Admin on the Terraria Fan Ideas wiki.