Wildfire Riders

A warning to folks. Rosie got reported for saying the word 'fucking' in say. Literally. I'm not kidding. It's only a warning, so it's no big thing, but I swear less than you know, Tarq so . . .

You uhhh.

May need to change some of your say RP up. Or locations therein. Nothing ever happened in the Pig, but this happened in Dalaran.

Someone needs to learn to turn on their language filter I think. That sucks.

Per Blizzard's ToS, the language filter is not there to permit language against the ToS, but rather to protect minors as needed.

That's fucking retarded.

I can get /why/ but . . . Rosie's more mild than a lot of the others so. More worried this'll happen to someone else.

I've always been worried this would happen with one of my friends whose character(s) cause their dialogue to be a bit more colorful. Please be careful guys.

Likely it was just the wrong person walking by to catch the language. I'd chalk it up to you stealing my luck for a day.

How the hell have I not been banned?

What the fuck?

Seriously though, I didn't know it was reportable. You can't say fuck in say? /puzzled

Kyraine wrote:What the fuck?

Seriously though, I didn't know it was reportable. You can't say fuck in say? /puzzled

No, technically, you're not allowed to say it (or any word that is normally filtered out by the profanity filter, if it's turned on) anywhere in game. Furthermore, it's still technically a violation if you censor the profanity yourself via typing in random symbols, as that's still considered masked profanity. However, Blizzard will only enforce the language restrictions in certain channels (default global chat channels, say, yell, party, raid*, battleground, etc.), and not in channels that are considered 100% voluntary (guild/officer chat, custom chat channels, etc.). Remember, though, that Blizzard doesn't do this proactively, but they will take action if someone reports it.

Really, though, the easiest way to make sure that you never get a warning, suspension, or ban is to just read and familiarize yourself with the Terms of Use so you can make good judgements about what (and where) you can get away with, and what you should steer clear from, especially around strangers.


*: This might only apply to some raids, like the automatic raid groups in Wintergrasp. I'm not sure if they'll enforce it in normal raids, too, but generally speaking you should probably keep the cursing to yourself if you're in a raid group with strangers, because you never really know if they'll get offended and report you.