Censor filter reactions!
This week I've had two people inadvertantly trip the dilligently on-guard censor filter with the following reactions.
The first person had suddenly said to me "I'm sorry!".
I was perplexed for a bit as to why was that. He/she said that apparently something wrong/bad was said here, referrring to the text paragraph that had suddenly appeared, and thinking that I had wrote it too.
The second person, upon seeing the text paragraph, became immediately angered, now thinking that the chat was not 100% private. He/she then stated there was loss of confidence using the site now. I assured him/her that it indeed was 100% private. :)
I don't see the point of the censor in 1-1s. People are able to say some pretty horrible things that the censor doesn't catch and it pops up on innocent things.
Oh gosh, I remember the first time they worked on the censor and like literally everything was censored and being sent in for review. They've since fixed it for the most part; I do think a lot of the things they censor is worth censoring, but there are some strange things that don't make sense.
I think they should add a "here's the words that were censored" list on the message, so the person knows what to edit. <3
It would help if the phrase censor worked like the word censor in group chats. A very long message can be lost because of 3-5 words strung together. It would also give less of the feeling that someone else is watching.
@AffyAvo Oh that's a really good idea!
Yeah the censors can be pretty annoying. They don't even look at the context. Why should someone be censored in a 1-1 where theyre there to vent and get it all out? When they are censored, they can't be honest!
I've only triggered it once, in a chat with another listener about a post in the forums. So we had the strange situation of a topic that we could discuss freely in the forum but not in a 1-to-1 chat between listeners. I've often had chats about topics that many humans would find triggering but the censor ignored.
Like @AffyAvo I don't see the point of it.