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Globe Of Warcraft has begun security review slurs in-game

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World Of Warcraft will now block messages containing "reserved row", arriving every bit part of a small moderation update ascertained by Wowhead.

For years, WoW has expurgated certain words by puzzlement as part of a mature linguistic communication filter. But now, information technology appears the game volition deflect messages from beingness sent entirely if they contain so-called "reserved words". For forthwith, this covers one racial slur, though I expect to attend that category expanded in future tense.

WoW chat blocked for containing bad words — (Image quotation: Blizzard Entertainment, via Wowhead)

Wowhead notes that, for now, the filter only applies to messages sent within WoW. Battle.net currently lets you chat to people playing WoW from the third-party BNet courier—and while these messages will show up in their WoW chat box, they aren't presently depicted object to the corresponding filters.

Some Wowhead commenters suggest that this English hawthorn beryllium knotted to textual matter-to-speech support arriving in an accessibility update presently available on the 9.1 test domain. That feature would let players choose to have confab channels spoken out loud. It's easy to get word why Blizzard might want to take a firmer posture on hate speech when in-spunky gossip can be spoken out loud.

But as anyone who's dipped into WoW's public channels, the community keister be rather 'creative' in coming up with hateful speech that dodges existing filters. Blizzard has so far to formally declare either the new accessibility tools or the chat filters, IT'll pay to ascertain if their arrival is joined by increased moderation efforts.

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