Suggestions

Support! It would feel very inclusive for people who don't speak english that well. We would need an overaul of the profanity* filter at the same time, of course, but that should already be done regardless of if this suggestion is made a reality or not - considering that it's quite easy to bypass it now...

* I'm including swears, slurs and overall very offensive words in this.

To be honest though, I feel like bad actors who just want to be edgy and offensive will always find a way to bypass any system. The people who will use diacritics to be offensive are people who, I feel, already know how to bypass the current system. Adding diacritics won't make people who don't do this suddenly start doing it.

Filters and censors aren't really like. a valid reason for excluding diacritics in names. There are tons of other websites that have diacritics and filtering at the same time, and most filtering programs are not diacritic sensitive anyways. Obviously it could take work to implement if the back end coding is diacritic sensitive, but all new features take work.

I just don't think people should be unable to accurately represent their language because others could potentially use it to get around the filters. There will always be ways to get around filters, no matter how good they are and regardless of whether diacritics are allowed or not. Non-English speakers shouldn't be denied the 'privilege' to type their language just because someone might abuse it. Diacritics are already allowed in the forums chat and people could also abuse it there.

I don't see it likely that diacritics would be added, but it was a suggestion I wanted to make. I just don't want its exclusion to be justified with the fact that it could be used to say something inappropriate, as if the ability to censor curse words is more important than being able to give my dragon a name in my language. Diacritics are first and foremost ways to represent my language and through that my culture, and they should be viewed as such, not just as a potential tool for English speakers to abuse.

I'd always assumed that the lack of diacritics was to prevent people from being able to name their dragons offensive stuff in languages that the staff isn't fluent in and therefore would be unable to fairly moderate.

I mean it makes as much sense to me as how there's a bunch of innocent words and common names that can't be used as dragon names so I just figured that the staff didn't want to try and come up with banned names in languages that they don't even know.

So I guess I'd support this if there was a way for the staff to fairly and knowledgeably expand the list of banned names to catch actual problems without also having a bunch of ordinary names and words get banned as well.

[quote name="xanzaina" date="2024-04-12 17:50:08" ] I just don't think people should be unable to accurately represent their language because others could potentially use it to get around the filters. There will always be ways to get around filters, no matter how good they are and regardless of whether diacritics are allowed or not. Non-English speakers shouldn't be denied the 'privilege' to type their language just because someone might abuse it. Diacritics are already allowed in the forums chat and people could also abuse it there. [/quote] Took the words right out of my mouth! The profanity filter is honestly a different topic entirely, and while i see where people are coming from with concerns in including diacritics... I also don't think it's an excuse to "punish" human diversity just because of some people will misuse it. There's a report system specifically when people get around the filter anyway. Plus, as OP put it, trying to name dragons with names and terms without the diacritics can actually result in words with entirely different meanings and potentially unintentional profanity anyway. So we actually have the profanity issue in [i]two directions[/i], so including diacritics will at least fix half of it while the other half will remain unaffected unless the team work on an improved filter system or just rely on user reports. Overall support!