Have Risky or Bannable Kickbot words highlight as you type in public chats

[GuiJay]

As the title says - I suggest having risky or ban-worthy words from Kickbot's list highlight as you type. This would help reduce the number of false positive, as people with good intention won't get blindsided by words that seem fine and can modify their sentences or pick alternate words as needed.

For those who will argue that this will allow people to circumvent the auto-ban words; it's already happening, so what would change? Nothing will replace actual human eyes in the chat room and I don't think that's Kickbot's goal either; I surmise it's simply to keep the lid from exploding during off-hours when mods aren't present. The above presented change supports that since;

1- It helps people know which words are deemed inappropriate, thus sanitizing the chat room automatically.

2- If someone decides to go ahead and use these words anyway, they will face the usual consequences.

 

The main goal is to give a tool for people who wish to engage in heartfelt conversations without having to fear stepping on a land mine, so to speak. As an additional advantage, people would learn these words gradually, over time, and I assume would tend to refrain from using them, thereby making the actual human moderator's job a little bit easier.

As far as implementation goes, I think this could be done locally so that the chat server doesn't need to support an extra load; a simple text parser could run on your client and highlight the words as you type according to a list maintained and distributed as part of the regular patches.

What do you think?

[BackstreetBois]

I would honestly love to see something like this. I recently was suspended from region chat for a statement that I thought was fine (as it was a quote from Ordis), but apparently somewhere in the statement there was something that triggered a suspension. A simple warning before you send the message would be great, as I'm sure many a player have found themselves removed from chat without knowing what exactly what in their sentence was wrong.

[Sajochi]

Then you would have people trying words until one isn't on the filter. Face it, the reason a chat bot exists is because some people think being edgy, annoying, or just stupid is funny and will do everything to make a poorly thought out joke. With how volatile people can be on the internet when someone pushes the right button, I rather have the chat bot and have those that are suspensed (because it's temperary) notified which rule they broke so there is clarity. 

[Chappie]

This system would also help the people who are trying to do wrong.    Also...if you are having a heartfelt conversation IN PUBLIC...pretty sure you are doing it wrong.

[(XBOX)Shodian]

[(PSN)deathwolfclaw666]

Personally I'd rather bans be just for spamming and harassment. Allow user to decided if they want problematic words hidden via options with the ability to add/remove words as a user wishes. Within my group of friends we tend to hate people getting offended for us which is what DE's system does. 

[GuiJay]

5 hours ago, Sajochi said:

Then you would have people trying words until one isn't on the filter. Face it, the reason a chat bot exists is because some people think being edgy, annoying, or just stupid is funny and will do everything to make a poorly thought out joke. With how volatile people can be on the internet when someone pushes the right button, I rather have the chat bot and have those that are suspensed (because it's temperary) notified which rule they broke so there is clarity. 

 

4 hours ago, Chappie1975 said:

This system would also help the people who are trying to do wrong.

You're coming at it from the "bad" side, and as I said, the malicious people are already circumventing the chatbot. They're the first to learn the words to avoid. I'd love to have some statistics but I'm almost certain there are as many innocent auto-bans that there are legitimate bans.

As I explained, Chat Bot can never be full chat moderation, it's meant to keep the lid from exploding. All the current system is doing is indiscriminately punishing for out-of-context word.

Before you tell me that this idea would allow the bad people to "play" the system, please think what it would do for the people who have no ill intentions and simply end up using an out-of-context auto-ban word - and I don't mean the usual suspect words; the auto-ban list is full of words that can find their way in respectable and legitimate messages when taken in context. I'll offer an example: KYS. If someone says "KYS messages should never be allowed" they will get chat-banned automatically. Was that message wrong? Was it full of malicious intent?

 

3 hours ago, (XB1)Shodian said:

I'm curious to know why? Are you in the camp that only looks at the ill-intents as well?

[(XBOX)Shodian]

38 minutes ago, GuiJay said:

I'm curious to know why? Are you in the camp that only looks at the ill-intents as well?

If that's what you want to call it, yes. More people will use it for bad than good. You learn from your mistakes, the internet has been around long enough that people should know the.majority of what to say and not to say. These bans don't happen as much as you think they do. Plus they don't last long when it does happen. I've been playing for five years and never once have been banned.

[kgabor]

4 hours ago, (PS4)deathwolfclaw666 said:

Personally I'd rather bans be just for spamming and harassment. Allow user to decided if they want problematic words hidden via options with the ability to add/remove words as a user wishes. Within my group of friends we tend to hate people getting offended for us which is what DE's system does. 

This, just when i want to put the little s**** on ignore and get rid of them forever the bot trolls me by kicking them.

Thanks, Kekbot!