WTF emotion drives me crazy...

under that logic ALL network games would be at least T-rated because of "non-censored internet chat". Where I live, where the ESRB is used for commercial games, games that support online multiplayer would usually have a "Game Experience May Change During Online Play" disclaimer. In other words, neither the rating company nor the game's creator are responsible for whatever mods and foul language people use for the game. People may swear in the in game chat, but that isn't caused by the game's makers. gaming companies ARE responsible for any foul content THEY put in. 0.5 Trunk and lower would have been rated E.

Interesting approach, never thought about that.
But somehow you are right, because this symbol can be easily exchanged with others already present.
So I support the idea.

On the other hand, the rating is self chosen by manufacturers normally? It does not meant a lot I guess. Anyway, this could be changed without a significant loss in my opinion.

I understand your concern about the WTF emotion but, despite what that article says about the MPAA and their standards (I've always thought they've been kind of off about their rating standards...), your argument doesn't make sense. W.T.F. is an acronym that is ambiguous if the person doesn't already know what it means, and, if they do know what it means, I think we can safely assume they won't be demoralized by another player using it offhandedly while in game. There are much worse things someone could do other than that, which I don't care to mention...

However, if anything I think it could be questioned into removal because it's English. Teeworlds is an international game and I think it's kind of only fair to use emotions without a specific language attached to it, or at least, ideally.

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The type of values you're trying to keep are kept by far and few in between in this world, but I commend you for it, since I consider myself a Christian too. However, to be honest, those values are fairly unrealistic. I can understand wanting to protect children but they and their parents will have to come to the reality that this world is a messy place, filled with those we rather not be around. It's unfortunate but true. If something like the WTF emotion can demoralized their childhood innocence then their parents have done them a disservice to them by making them so morally week... It's just life man, unless they plan on being Amish. :\

And on the whole chat filter thing, it has been discussed before here under "Community features", and it will not be implemented for two main reasons. One, most people don't care that much; players are able to mute other player if they want to if their language is bothering them. And two, those chat filters are easy to get around and are therefore, pretty pointless. I've seen chat filters implemented before and if someone really wanted to give someone else a piece of their mind, they were going to do it... and do it creatively.

Go and cry!

I just prefer things controlled server side, that's all

<sarcasm> The #!!*#*! emote stands for a bad word, it should be removed as well. Kids will wonder what that means and look up bad words! Please remove it. The Devil emote is a sign of the devil! I will not allow my kids to play games of the devil. Please remove this one as well. The Heart emote encourages love, it will lead to kids and teens having sex. Please remove it as it pertains to abstinence. Thank you. </sarcasm>

Fun fact: I'm using sushi's client pack with disabled emotions, coz all are annoying in general

but
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seriously?
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oh, and we should remove also all weapons, they are cruel.

Agreed. Rating MA.

If you want strict morality regulations, go for proprietary, commercial games. FOSS is a lost case in this matter. Commercial proprietary developers actually HAVE to care about morality because of regulations, rating systems and need to sell games to the most people possible, while FOSS game developers don't have such obligations and can do whatever they want.

The good thing is that you can fix a FOSS game yourself (as people suggested), that's what free software is for, but you can't force developers to apply your fixes to the original game.