Automatic suspension on content censored by filter?

FearisThavirus · Aug 17, 2022

I believe a potentially offensive message I had sent another player who was exploiting in my game to gain an unfair advantage was blocked by a messaging moderation filter put in place by the potential recipient’s privacy and online safety settings. Not only did the potentially offensive message fail to send to the recipient, I was met with an enforcement violation instantly.

I was under the impression that in order to break Microsoft’s code of conduct a user would have to offend another user where the offended user would report said content they were offended by.. If the potentially offensive content was indeed blocked by said filter then this leave no party offended. I am however aware of the automatic enforcement filter that handles content that is reported but is there really an automatic enforcement system that dishes out enforcement actions upon users that send potentially offensive content to a user that has an active filter against said content? If so then we are not far from developing a thought police for society where potential criminals will be arrested before any potential crimes committed…

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Geri M.

Hi FearisThavirus,

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Listed mia 510

Thats too funny, the word filter censored your gamertag.

Starseid

Check your message safety settings to make sure the content filter is not set to Friendly or Medium. The 'Unfiltered" option will turn off most content filters with Xbox. You can do this by going to your settings and selecting Profile & system > Settings > Account > Privacy & online safety > Message safety.

To my knowledge, none of those words you have listed are considered mature. If you are running into censored verbiage through Xbox's messaging platform then it might be a phrase that is being filtered rather than a single word. If you are running into these filters with in-game messaging platforms, then this is likely a developer choice to filter the content instead of Microsoft.

Dirty Loco

It's not the word filters job to remove censored words. If you find people with such words in their gamertag, use the tools on your console to file a complaint against them. Having any sort of profanity (including hinting at
profanity) in your profile is a violation of the Code of Conduct, and will result in a suspension of service for the offender.

There is no slipping in security.

ngocphi

No as you can see the forums filter would've censored you

Keep.in mind context is meaningfull

Automatic suspension on content censored by filter?