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playing the devil’s advocate here : You’re playing a game where you’re actually killing someone else, in the most realistic way. And yet you can’t say mean things in the chat.

It’s weird you can say « haha, i’m so happy i shot you in the head ». But you can’t say « you’re such a lame dumbass » ?

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I play CS GO pretty often. I don’t register the in-game killing as killing at all. It’s more like scoring a point in volleyball or clearing a line in Tetris. The toxic behavior of your teammates however is very real and detrimental to the game. Its people insulting you for making mistakes or making a teamkill because they wanted to get revenge for something. I doubt anyone would be banned for calling someone a lame dumbass. We’re talking about screaming in the mic, thus hurting your ears and occupying voicechat, threats of violence and racism (I never witnessed sexism but that could be a problem too).

>I never witnessed sexism but that could be a problem too

That's pretty slippery.

Why not go full Toon-Town 'SpeedChat' , parse all the voice to text, equivocate the naughty phrase that was actually uttered to an acceptable alternative, and give the player a TTS voice that says something roughly equivalent publicly.

"Eat shit, dickhead" -> "Boy, I sure am frustrated!" "I wrecked you, you're terrible." -> "Good game, everyone!"

these censorship lengths absurd. at what point in all this cat-and-mouse game is it going to be obviously harmful towards human expression?

or, in other words, if The Machine dictates what of which was said is heard by the flock everywhere , at what point do we lose our voices?

I'm not talking about gendered language. I'm talking about discrimination based on gender. E.g. if someone said to a woman in game: "Wow, you're bad that's why women belong to the kitchen and not the computer" or some bullshit. And it's nasty in the way I described earlier that it just tries to mess with your teammates emotionally which is basically a form of griefing and just ruins the game.

Other than a few slurs, name-calling, racism is pretty absent in my experince. I have not seen peoples experince impinged upon because of any of their unseen atributes other than being a 'squeaker' (young player with high pitched voice), who are ruthlessly mocked by some. So the same gatekeeping bs that happens in every schoolyard, but without the local consequence.

I‘m in Europe where you get players from the UK to Turkey and Russia. There’s often a prejudice from some nations to others.

Even on the scale of general toxicity CS:GO is so stifled that you don't even interact with your opponents that much anyway. The only thing I hope this AI takes care of is the YouTube preacher bots. You usually get the grief from mistakes/uncooperative teammates.

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