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Using the word cancer in chat

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  1. Prouddyyy

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    Ok, so I'm dutch, many may not know, many maybe do.
    In dutch many people swear with the word cancer.

    translated to dutch it means kanker.
    And many times I see dutch people swear with it.
    I did a /chatreport on it, but it was to minor. After he disrespected someone twice with saying disrespectful things too.

    To me cancer isn't a swearing word, and shouldn't be used as a swearing word. In my family cancer has occured 3 times 2 of the persons died, the other luckiley is still alive.

    I don't think cancer should be used in chat. as a swearing word
    So, I don't know if this is already a thing, but
    Kanker, kkr, kankr, and knker al mean cancer in dutch. but like with shortcuts. And personally to me if it isn't already, I think it should be banned to say in chat.

    and if it is, then I think staff members do need to know about it, because it's not a swearing word.
     
  2. MattM1PVP

    MattM1PVP Ex-HG Staff Member

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    We don't mute for swearing unless it's excessive. If someone says **** in chat and gets chat reported, I'll label it as "Offence is too minor". Similarly, I'll probably do the same for cancer. Don't think swearing should be a bannable offense at all.
     
  3. Prouddyyy

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    Not bannable, but just conclusion actually is a question is the word as kanker banned in public chat, and if so do all staff members know about it cause I see alot of people swear with it that are ofc dutch
     
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    MattM1PVP Ex-HG Staff Member

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    Staff might not know about it, and swearing in chat is fine, but excessive swearing is not. I'm assuming that kanker refers to swear words in general
     
  5. ChickenOF

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    I think we shouldnt be called cancer or use the word cancer in a swearing format because ive been abused by the word cancer and lots of people around the community have called me cancer and in my opinion i think we should get some sort of punishment (week mute) etc
     
  6. Sn4x5

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    Since I understand the most insults considering to kanker I'd be muting for it unless it's just once or to minor, for example if he calls him bad at the game.
     
  7. Prouddyyy

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    Yea but f3ck is really something different to cancer, cancer is something thousands of people die by a year
    Saying to someone f3ck you, is very different then saying kankr homo for example. Imagine if that person just lost his dad from it.
     
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    Saying "kanker" or cancer in any other way passing the chat filter is filter bypass, thus mutable from two offenses (/chatreport).

    Same goes for any censored word typed in a language that the censor doesn't catch.

    Confirm? @Lord_Roke @0racle
     
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    I think it's not a good idea to get into this whole discussion of "is this insult or swearword more offensive than this other insult/swearword" because everyone has their own standard about what is and isn't "bad" to say because "bad" is a value judgement.

    On topic:
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  10. MattM1PVP

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    I hate to sound insensitive, but cancer is just a sickness, but used as a swear word. Similarly, **** just means to have sex, but it is also used as a swear word. I would not consider anything more severe than others. If someone gets offended by the word cancer in chat they can chatreport, but if it's too minor I'll resolve it and say it's too minor, even if he writes the report reason as "I just lost a family member to cancer and this offends me". Hate to write it this way, but that's the truth of it.

    EDIT: Maybe I'll phrase it a little better here

    PlayerA: "ur cancer"
    PlayerB: "I recently lost someone to that, and I'm offended"

    If the chatreport was as follows, I wouldn't take any action.

    If, on the other hand, PlayerA continued by saying something like "I don't care, your life is not important to me", I'll mute him for disrespect. But if PlayerA continues chatting to other people or just ignores that message completely, I'll let it be too.
     
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    Ok thanks :smile:
     
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    If a player is excessively and disrespectly swearing with cancer to other people, I will warn and mute if needed, although I'm not quite sure how other staff would act.
     
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    What's going on with the other languages? I don't think Brawl will censor swear words in other languages. There over one hundred languages out there with each of them having atleast five swear words so they are not gonna censor 500+ words. In my opinion Brawl doesn't really have to do something about it.
     
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    Please don't gravedig posts older than 30 days.

    Locked, PM me for further questions.
     
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