Making chat more user friendly
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:37 am
There are two main problems currently (as far as I can tell).
1) the absurd profanity filter, with its inability to accept certain combinations of letters even if they are part of another word, and the red flags against some words that aren't even mildly offensive. (I couldn't use the world cluster the other day because "lust" is profane...apparently! "Mick" is not a profane name for an Irishman).
2) any comms not in English is made almost impossible by the lack of accented letters, eg ñ, é, ä, or non-English letters such as the German ß. Also being able to use basic punctuation like quotation marks and apostrophes would be useful too.
Is there anything that can be done about this? I appreciate this may not be very high on the priorities list, so I am asking if there is any way I can contribute? I have some skill with languages but pretty much zero technological ability, but if it's a case of slogging through lists or enabling this or that I would gladly help out.
1) the absurd profanity filter, with its inability to accept certain combinations of letters even if they are part of another word, and the red flags against some words that aren't even mildly offensive. (I couldn't use the world cluster the other day because "lust" is profane...apparently! "Mick" is not a profane name for an Irishman).
2) any comms not in English is made almost impossible by the lack of accented letters, eg ñ, é, ä, or non-English letters such as the German ß. Also being able to use basic punctuation like quotation marks and apostrophes would be useful too.
Is there anything that can be done about this? I appreciate this may not be very high on the priorities list, so I am asking if there is any way I can contribute? I have some skill with languages but pretty much zero technological ability, but if it's a case of slogging through lists or enabling this or that I would gladly help out.