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Xelles™ 16 Nov @ 9:00pm
Why are there non offensive words banned?
For Instance Boned, and Highway are censored in map names and descriptions.
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Originally posted by Valden21:
This is actually a legitimate issue in computing; it's called "The Scuntthorpe Problem", and it's what happens when auto-censoring software is written in a way that results in words getting censored regardless of other circumstances involved. The issue gets its name from an incident that occurred in the English industrial town of Scunthorpe back in 1996. The entire town got Internet access through AOL all at once, and when the residents tried to create their accounts, the name of their town got red-flagged. Why? Look carefully at the name of that town, and you'll see it. The auto-censoring software got WAY too zealous.

That's what you're seeing, OP. The game's auto-censoring software is censoring the names of those maps because it's seeing words on its "bad word" list in the names of those maps. The actual meaning of the names don't matter to the auto-censoring software; all that matters is the word-within-the-word.
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Pandorae 17 Nov @ 1:22pm 
Evil wants to control our speech. Other parts of our brain are influenced and easier to manipulate once we self-limit our own speech patterns. :controlpope:
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KingyWingy 17 Nov @ 3:27pm 
Boned I get, but I have never found why moderators go crazy with censorship on forums or in movies and games. I have seen words such as bunny and corn hidden.

It has been this way for decades.
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Sabaithal 17 Nov @ 6:59pm 
Ah yes, Noble K***ht
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Fastspectre 17 Nov @ 10:02pm 
some stuff is written the same but has different meanings in other languages
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Moderator Abuse 17 Nov @ 10:06pm 
What the
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Valden21 18 Nov @ 7:05am 
This is actually a legitimate issue in computing; it's called "The Scuntthorpe Problem", and it's what happens when auto-censoring software is written in a way that results in words getting censored regardless of other circumstances involved. The issue gets its name from an incident that occurred in the English industrial town of Scunthorpe back in 1996. The entire town got Internet access through AOL all at once, and when the residents tried to create their accounts, the name of their town got red-flagged. Why? Look carefully at the name of that town, and you'll see it. The auto-censoring software got WAY too zealous.

That's what you're seeing, OP. The game's auto-censoring software is censoring the names of those maps because it's seeing words on its "bad word" list in the names of those maps. The actual meaning of the names don't matter to the auto-censoring software; all that matters is the word-within-the-word.
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Xelles™ 18 Nov @ 1:06pm 
Its so weird to me that you can blow someone up with a grenade but i cant name a map Bonedyard.
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SR388 19 Nov @ 2:17am 
you can turn the censoring off but it'll only show for when people are typing on your end, if you type something its just going to show what words it censors. very strange implementation
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Valden21 20 Nov @ 11:03am 
Originally posted by Xelles™:
Its so weird to me that you can blow someone up with a grenade but i cant name a map Bonedyard.
That's The Scuntthorpe Problem for you.
Last edited by Valden21; 20 Nov @ 11:03am
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