Also, in regards to your comments on my analogy - that matters jack all? The fact is that the streaker is ruining the match. It doesn't matter if the streaker is a random person, the map editor or john doe - as long as he's gone. In this particular case, it would probably be more of a confused naked footballer than a streaker, I guess, but that doesn't really matter - I just don't want to see naked dudes in my football match.
Yes it does matter to jack, and to us, since we're talking about the propriety of mapmakers being censored (justifiably or not), not on random dudes getting jollies from being immature. So, I guess it was your analogy that mattered "jack all" ;)
Having only 1 "semi-bad" word in the map certainly would have lessened the likelihood Blizzard would ban it quickly, since less people would report it. However, once enough people did report it, you really can't say whether or not Blizzard would decide to ban it. Blizzard's inappropriate content policies certainly allow for it.
Also, the football analogy isn't very apt: a more accurate comparison would be if the football teams themselves (the content producers) put in some streakers, ostensibly "for your enjoyment". Some random blabbermouth being intentionally obscene in chat doesn't have anything to do with this discussion.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/resources/bad-words.txt is a list of 1,300 such words. All of the words Blizzard cited as being offensive are in this list. I would say that if you removed all of these words, and any words with these derivations (words beginning with the same letters as those in this list), you should be safe. If Blizzard still bans your map as a result of an offensive word not in this list, then I don't know what to say to them.
Yes, africa is clearly a bad word ;)
I understand Blizzard's problem with some of the words in NWW's dictionary, but "jesus"? Yeaaahh....
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I think it's pretty clear at this point that we're talking about different things
Sure, but then you said they probably wouldn't. Which, as you admitted, we really don't know at all.
Yes it does matter to jack, and to us, since we're talking about the propriety of mapmakers being censored (justifiably or not), not on random dudes getting jollies from being immature. So, I guess it was your analogy that mattered "jack all" ;)
@Mozared: Go
Having only 1 "semi-bad" word in the map certainly would have lessened the likelihood Blizzard would ban it quickly, since less people would report it. However, once enough people did report it, you really can't say whether or not Blizzard would decide to ban it. Blizzard's inappropriate content policies certainly allow for it.
Also, the football analogy isn't very apt: a more accurate comparison would be if the football teams themselves (the content producers) put in some streakers, ostensibly "for your enjoyment". Some random blabbermouth being intentionally obscene in chat doesn't have anything to do with this discussion.
Yes, africa is clearly a bad word ;)
I understand Blizzard's problem with some of the words in NWW's dictionary, but "jesus"? Yeaaahh....