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Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font by jstanley on Sunday May 10, 2020 @09:40AM (#23132481)
As soon as you start trying to automatically filter out messages you don't want, you enter an arms race that you're not going to win.

Surely a better solution is to provide the players with a way to votekick abusive users, and leave it at that?

Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font by infogulch on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:35AM (#23133424)
Humans are basically symbolic representation generating machines. Trying to stop such a being from communicating ideas by limiting their available vocabulary in a particular language is short-sighted and massively underestimates humans in general. Maybe that's a fancy way of saying that the only thing that scales with the community is the community.
Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font by softwarejosh on Sunday May 10, 2020 @01:10PM (#23134199)
have you never played video games?

sure lets votekick someone from club penguin, im sure that wouldnt encourage cyber bullying and make matters worse

Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font by jstanley on Sunday May 10, 2020 @01:19PM (#23134268)
I've played a bit of https://skribbl.io/ recently and the votekick mechanism works very well for getting rid of people who just want to draw dicks and write swear words.