Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20140527012127/@comment-24133975-20140602184928

Squazzil wrote: Another thing that came to mind and that i would like to know is, will having certain words/phrases that are blanked out mean that the person that says them won't necessarily be ejected from the chat? Because I think this is the basic idea of censoring bad language, so that everyone remains in a chat or forum without the risk of others seeing offensive language. I would think that then we would not take any further action with the person who swears, unless they take it to a level of abusing the filter by spamming words, creating a blank wall just to troll or annoy. In fact, if someone were to say something and it blanks out, I feel that there shouldn't even be a response to it at all, or the situation could escalate simply because everyone called attention to the "offense". You know what I mean? Its hard for me to articulate it, but basically with a filter in place, its preventing someone from saying anything that we have pre-determined is too offensive for the chat, and so they didn't expose anyone in the chat to it because it was blanked out - so instead of kicking someone out for saying something in chat, no punishment is needed because the word or phrase was never seen, thus not offending anyone.

I see exactly what you mean and I definitely agree with not having to take action when a word is blanked out. Action should only be taken if there's a wall of blankness therefore implying that the user is just trying to troll.