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Topic: serverside nick and chat filter

a serverside var like sv_not_allowed_nicks would be nice to prevent people with defamatory nicks to join a server
also a chat filter var like sv_chat_filter that unwandted words replaced by **** would be nice

2 Reply by KRD

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Re: serverside nick and chat filter

I'm normally pro censorship more than would be healthy for someone living in democracy, but language filters really suck. They limit people's artistic possibilities and end up censoring completely harmless words like "assassination" and "accumulation". Then if you configure them so that they don't detect a bad* word in the middle of another word, people will just find annoying ways of getting around them: A*N*U*S*M*A*N, FyUoCuK and so on. Which only makes the problem worse.

If language filters do make it in someday for whatever reason, however, make sure they're off by default. Otherwise 90% of everyone playing the game will overlook the setting and it'll be almost the same as if it wasn't there at all.

*Words cannot be bad. Not outside a bad context.

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3 Reply by serp

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Re: serverside nick and chat filter

It is not Teewars' role to censor players. If you feel that it is important that people on your server use proper language, you have to modify the server source code to enforce it.