Best Posts in Thread: Why is speaking in another language a threat?

Thank you for making this suggestion, but at this time we will not be moving forward with it.

• No staff member is paid currently (except for Fuzzlr).
• It is not a good business decision to hire translators for the sole purpose of moderating chats in non-English languages (especially since you'd have to hire multiple, for them to be on 24/7).
• The LOE (level of effort) required to develop a chat filter that heuristically blocks curse words from every language is larger than the benefit to the community that would come from such an update.

 

none of meep's staff are paid, I doubt you'd get a translator to help on the server for free.

 

speaking in another language in itself isn't a threat, it's the fact that other languages aren't filtered, so we could potentially be allowing swearing to be allowed in chat, not everyone knows other languages so it may be difficult to communicate if we allowed all languages, but it would also be drastically hard to make the filter block out every swear and bna word in the language of anything.