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Old 12th February 2007, 04:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Profanity and Masking

There seems to be some confusion out there about what is and isn't allowed by the Code of Conduct. The relevant section is here:

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* profanity, vulgarity, or explicit content For example:
---o "masking" by using alternative characters/spellings and spaces to get around profanity filters, leet-speak, and combinations of words that produce an offensive result (e.g. ura hugeazz, Tow El Head)
---o "Filter testing" That is, trying to find a way to get prohibited words past the filters.
---o Discussion of or in-character enactments of "cybering" or sexually explicit material. This means roleplaying having sex, or sexual type encounters of any sort, to include oral, homosexual, foreplay, etc.
---o Discussion of or in-character enactments of graphic violence, bloodletting, rape, torture, slavery, etc. This means no descriptions of entrails all over, no lurid descriptions of blood spattering and fountaining all around, no depictions of rape, or detailed accounts of rape, no torture or cruelty such as found in slavery situations, no enactments of slavery or the process of enslaving someone.
If you try to get around the filters by altering the word so that the filters don't catch it, that's against the CoC.

If you semi-filter or mask the word yourself but leave enough of the profanity to be noticeable, that's against the CoC.

If you type a random collection of punctuation marks to indicate profanity, that's NOT against the CoC. You may type "!*#$@" if you want. The innocent will think you mean something fairly mild and probably less than you meant, the jaded will probably think you mean something much worse, but it's all in the mind of the beholder. (No, not that sort of beholder.)

If the filter inserts a random collection of punctuation marks because you typed the actual profanity, that's..... hmmm. No one in the room can tell the difference between that and you typing the punctuation characters yourself. HOWEVER, should the filter be temporarily down or broken and the profanity come through, then telling us that you THOUGHT the filter would catch it will go over just about as well as an arsonist telling the cops that he THOUGHT the automatic sprinkler system would douse the fire.

I hope this clarifies matters.
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Old 14th February 2007, 12:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
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...no depictions of rape, or detailed accounts of rape, no torture or cruelty such as found in slavery situations...
That means, we can't roleplay or describe a rape situation, or we can't even say that word, rape, or use it in a situation, as calling a half-breed the result of a rape?
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Old 14th February 2007, 01:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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That means, we can't roleplay or describe a rape situation, or we can't even say that word, rape, or use it in a situation, as calling a half-breed the result of a rape?
You can mention your character was a result of a rape. You can't have them giving detailed accounts of the event and the conditions of it.

So a half-orc can tell people that his mother had him because she was raped during an orc raid, but he can't describe out exactly what the orcs did to her.
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Old 14th February 2007, 01:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 15th February 2007, 11:32 AM   #6 (permalink)
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