Cancer!

Ectar:   You do realise we have one already right?  By default everyone has the chat filter active and they have to manually turn it off.  The forums also have a chat filter.    In the European region we have something like 30 different countries all with their own swear words.  Now when you block a word, the naughty people who want to use those terms quickly look for ways around the block.  The common method is to add characters from other languages. Shit becomes Shít by adding an i-acute that's used in Hungarian Icelandic, Czech and other languages.  It's not a word in those languages but the substitute letter get the meaning/word across in English.  - So if we ban the word "shit" then have to ban all spelling variants of the words in the swear filter... for all languages.   All of a sudden totally innocent words in other languages are blocked because of that. A perfect example being that the French word for grated (as in grated cheese) which is râpé, is banned because people of poor judgement who use the term "rape" in game look for ways to misspell it to get around the word filter. This is all also before we even get into regional insults within the countries....   We're always looking at how to remove chat toxicity from the game, however there is limit as to just how much chat can be censored.