Chat filter is being abused for homophobic and transphobic purposes, please change.

[UrielSolaris]

Yeah I personally witnessed multiple people sharing their "lists" in a popular FFXIV discord server, and all of them were pretty much what you'd expect from the average FFXIV player.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to cancel my pre-order if the developers don't implement any protection for vulnerable LGBTQIA2S+ folx. Wish they could take a page out of the book of World of Warcraft developers in that regard.

ps: If you are part of that 10k+ member discord server I mentioned do not visit the channel "summoner lounge". The kind of disgusting, dehumanizing drivel being posted there makes my skin crawl.

[EliaStormblade]

Far as I am concerned, people can use the filter for whatever means they want. If they want to filter "ham sandwich," they can. Nobody needs to justify why they're filtering a term. Their video game experience is theirs to curate.

[Mr_Gyactus]

Truly? in FFXIV? Where you can get banned or punished for giving unwanted advice even on someones class.

You think this is the game where you absolutely must add onto every recruitment possible that they need to be LGBT friendly and that this might not be overdoing it a little? Your fear is unwarranted, I believe. Just don't add terms that are used in advertisment spam and you won't get filtered, people that care about it won't filter it anyway so you won't miss your targetted people anyway, just the ones that feel like that's not a message meant for them.

Not really.

One thing is "WE LOOK for LGBTQ+ only", another is "you don't have to be rude or worse against someone in the group that is LGBTQ+".
Things are different.

Accept your intolerance and don't hide behind a finger called "freedom", there is not freedom in closing doors.

[Midare]

Not really.

One thing is "WE LOOK for LGBTQ+ only", another is "you don't have to be rude or worse against someone in the group that is LGBTQ+".
Things are different.

Accept your intolerance and don't hide behind a finger called "freedom", there is not freedom in closing doors.

So now not paying attention to it and simply moving on with life it's "being rude or worse"?

And this is not an issue of being attention deprived huh...

[TheCount]

Not really.

One thing is "WE LOOK for LGBTQ+ only", another is "you don't have to be rude or worse against someone in the group that is LGBTQ+".
Things are different.

Accept your intolerance and don't hide behind a finger called "freedom", there is not freedom in closing doors.

My intolerance of daring to filter the word LGBT so that I don't get recruitment messages not meant for me or I don't care about anyway? I stated before in the thread why people would filter it, or I would anyway, as have others. Posts like yours aren't very convincing to do otherwise.

Closing doors would be if they barred LGBT, them choosing not to get certain spam isn't the same as that. There's no hiding behind a finger called freedom as you say, I have not even mentioned the word. You have.

[MoonmoonMoonmoon]

I will block the words or phrases that appear in RP venue /shout messages so if blocking "LGBT" gets rid of most of them, then maybe that's on you. Act like a weed, get the weedkiller.

[Midlithe]

It's a new feature and people can put whatever they want into the filter.

I don't want to see real world crap in my game chat. Not politics, not Gil Sellers, not Alt-Left, not Alt-Right, not anything that ruins the experience of just having "FUN" in a game I pay money for entertainment.

[Merrigan]

Watch out PHD in gender studies here to educate us on definition of words folks.

I sighed.

Thank goodness you don't have to be a PhD, or a specialist in the field to know what words mean. Just to have opened a dictionary.

[Reinha]

To filter < LGBTQ+ > does not filters "clubs": a FC or a static could ask to be "LGTBQ+ friendly" and this POLITE request will be filtered.

To filter that acronym is a clear intolerance, because if the problem is "CLUB", you filter "CLUB", not "LGTBQ+".

People who are not looking for a static or an fc don't need to see those ads. Any in-game polite conversation between members of an existing static or fc happens in /fc, /p, /cwls or /ls and none of those channels can be filtered with the new Term Filter feature.

There is no excuse to start accusing people of intolerance. This filter is just a useful tool for blocking ads when you're not the target audience or blocking disruptive sociopolitical commentary that doesn't belong in public channels such as /sh or /s.

[Yshnal]

While we are at it, lets put tape on everyone's eyelids to keep them open, and force them to watch whatever you want them to watch (not exclusively related to LGBT).

I'm not going to use it to filter anything (for now), but people should be free to use the chat filter however they want. It doesn't affect you ¡n any way or sense, so I don't know why you care. What's next? Prevent folks from also blocking *you* because you're feeling special?

These nonsensical special treatment demands from certain groups, that only representent themselves and not everyone that they think they do, should stop already.