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So a few of my "Kin" and love to discuss things such as this and I could not think of a better place to post this (and Darq kinda told me I had to anyway).

Have you come accross any "unusual" words that are blocked by the profanity filter? Im not talking about the obvious ones mind...I'm pretty sure we all know those are blocked and why (With one exception, the big F word is not censored /shrug)...but I'm referring to other words...that make no sense in being blocked, here are some examples:

Crack
Suck
Bible
Weed (uh..Pipe-weed is a product but I guess the devs dont think of that)
Poo
WTF
STFU
Alla

Please submit your submissions and I will keep the list up to date, as I would love to make this thread longer and find out what other "Vile Filth" were not allowed to speak in-game.

***IMPORTANT NOTES*** Yes you can turn off the profanity in the game by going to Options>Chat> and unchecking "Profanity Filter", Also the word "Bible" may no longer be censored...apparently Patience has lost his and there are quite a few people that keep bugging the Admins over at this site HERE if you want to read the full and original post.





Edited, Apr 26th 2007 12:17am by Dyadem

I can't believe they censored "wtf" and "stfu", they are only letters and could mean anything. :(

It turbine game and can set the filter to what ever they want and i beleive there is a way to turn it off like any other MMO so i wondering why all the complaining about. Beside I believe people that type out a cuss word is childish and selfish becauce they do not care who they might offend. I can not see poo being filter thou but the others words I understand why.

In my original post i clearly stated how to turn the filter off...and this thread was not meant as a complaint in any means...I could care less whats censored and what isnt as long as I have the ability to turn on/off the filter...but this thread is just simply a compendum of words that ARE censored that shouldnt be...so please if you have nothing usefull to add, go get your post count up somewhere else

I should of copy and paste i was responding not to the thread but to a reply. Did not mean to offend the ops in any way and my deepest apology for my post.

I think the filter blocks anything that may be related to swearing, drugs, derogatory comments and religious stuff as well:

Crack - Drug/Sexual term
Suck - Sexual or degrading term
Bible - religious
Weed - Drugs (despite been used in the books)
Poo - bodily function (sexual in some cases if your that way inclined)
WTF - What The F**K <- swearing
STFU - Shut The F**K Up <- again swearing involved
Alla - Religious

I do find some of the filters a bit strange though - apparently Sirend is banned according the name filter thing yet Dildobaggins slipped through easily enough. Maybe they're been a little over-zealous.

Pipeweed is tobacco. I believe the slang term 'weed' was used to refer tobacco, especially cigars, rather than marijuana at the time Tolkein was writing.

I don't know if you knew that, but there seem to be a lot of people under the misconception.

Well with how often they smoked it in the books, and the fact they still remained the same and didn't go all loopy, i'd say that while it may not be said straightup, it was tobacco not modern-day weed.

Rofl, that is a really cute name...remind me later to make a "Strangest Name You've Seen" thread...I already have one but it's only strange to me...I saw a guy (who I shall not name) running through Bree-Town with my name! I stopped and thought to myself thats not me...but yet his name was the same but hey what can ya do right?

I can see where they are coming from. Lord of the Rings is rich in storyline and it seems this game is really focused on RPing. I like that about it. I didn't see any RP specific channels, so it looks like they are just integrating it all over? I will turn my profanity filter off though, but, it is interesting to know what they block. Nice post.