Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20140527012127/@comment-24133975-20140602133821

Kida155 wrote: It would make it harder for chat moderators to actually do what they're supposed to, especially since it will apparently just replace the foul language with spaces. What're we gonna do, tell the offender to stop firing off blank messages, despite not knowing the severity of the curse they used? Ban them for.. sending slurs that end up completely blanked-out anyway? It makes no sense. It'll be even harder to punish people for "trolling" the chat when anything they say cannot accurately be seen.

I think the idea overall is just ridiculously unnecessary on a wiki like this, where the chat is hardly populated in the first place. It'll render the chat moderators we currently have fairly useless. It's a chat moderator's job to punish people for severe language, not have a filter block it out and make it invisible to everyone, including said moderators.

Ack. *Puts arguing cap back on.*
 * First, if you haven't noticed what we're planning on blocking let me refresh your memory. We are planning on blocking racist/sexist/homophobic slurs. Considering that, whenever a troll is seen spamming out blank words, that surely and obviously means that they're using some form of offensesive racist/sexist/homophobic slur. If so, they can be dealt with accordingly.
 * It will not render our Chat Moderators useless. As said before, the filter is to block racist/sexist/homophobic slur. The Chat Moderators will still have to deal with a multitude of other daily problems that are just part of having the rights. Also, the chat actually has been fairly populated as of late, up to 10 - 15 people on a good day.