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

[Briarkiss]

You live your life how you want to. I don't want to hear about it. So, now that I know that this is a feature. Filtering this nonsense out is going to be the very first thing I do next time I log in.

[Reimmi]

And that's fine. Isn't that what a minority group is? They are small.

The term LGBT has nothing to do with gameplay, so it's not like they'd be excluded from actual gameplay content. I've never seen that term ever while running a dungeon or raid.

Yeah i don't know what the big deal is. I have not ever once in my 8 years of playing seen someone say LGBT in say/shout/novice network. i've only seen it used in toxic spam invite FC macros, or erp venue recruitment.

This topics probly just a titanmen bait thread, or something lol

[tribo]

I'm gay And I'm thinking of blocking it too.

[CerusSerenade]

Guys, it's just TitanMen baiting on lgbt issues again. That's his normal MO lol.

You have to admit it makes a great honeypot.

[Reinha]

We have chat filters? I wasn't aware of that. If true thank god. Maybe I don't need to see all the RP and venue shouts now.

Yup search "term filter" in the patch notes. The way the feature works makes it clear it's intended for blocking a large amount of messages where the blacklist or mutelist would be inconvenient to use, such as spam, ads and RMT. One can choose to filter up to 10 words in public channels, emotes and/or tells.

It seems to me like the /tell RMT spam is not as bad as it once used to be so one could also leave tells unblocked in case any friend decides to use words like "gil" or "club" in regular conversation.

[Mostly_Raxus]

Guys, it's just TitanMen baiting on lgbt issues again. That's his normal MO lol.

shhhh...

[KitiaraIornsight]

You seem to be under the mistaken impression the filter makes characters vanish. NO, that is the blacklist that does that. Filtering a word removes SPAM from the shout an say chat. And the LGBT RP community is one of the main sources for venue/club RP shouts. How are you going to personally know if someone blocks the letters LBGT or LBGT+? This isn't making a character go invisible, its making a shout spam vanish from the chat log.

[Gyson]

I used to feel and believe the same way - until I developed a bit of personal empathy and lived a few experiences of my own. I get how you'd look at it that way, but more often than not it's just a way for minority groups to know that whatever place is being advertised is a safe-space.
Mind you, probably not that big of a necessity in this game, but I totally get why.

Ok, well that makes it sound like I lack empathy.

I look at it this way: if everyone went around constantly inserting their orientation and the groups they relate to in every other statement then conversations would get annoyingly inefficient and tiring almost immediately. It's unnecessary. You're a human, I'm a human, it doesn't require a biography; let's move on to the actual material that matters, like where we're going for lunch today.

[Sotaris]

Yup search "term filter" in the patch notes. The way the feature works makes it clear it's intended for blocking a large amount of messages where the blacklist or mutelist would be inconvenient to use, such as spam, ads and RMT. One can choose to filter up to 10 words in public channels, emotes and/or tells.

It seems to me like the /tell RMT spam is not as bad as it once used to be so one could also leave tells unblocked in case any friend decides to use words like "gil" or "club" in regular conversation.

Sounds like what we got in FF11 some while ago, that's a welcomed QOL.

[Tengi]

I'm gay IRL and I just don't want venue and FC ads. You won't even know someone is using the filter anyway so it's not censorship really it's more like an ad block.