I vehemently disagree with what you said in that thread:
Some word sequences are blocked because they have been used to skirt around the BlackList. Innocent words are combined in a certain order to get away with saying a dirty word. This is the sole reason that you will have trouble sending messages with words that are on the WhiteList.
Innocent words were always combined to skirt around the blacklist, and always will be. Remember how everyone would say "won, too tree, for"?
Furthermore any deviation from the whitelist is blocked, making any typos completely unintelligible, let alone any words that aren't in it but should be. It's a lot of trouble to submit those words to the whitelist thread and not all of the players have a forum account. Also, censoring words that are on the whitelist on certain order is pointless because there are so many ways to do that. I can't say gay, even though most people in today's society would get all up in arms about that and how "gay" isn't a "bad word". So what do I say? "g a y". Oh wait, G and Y are censored. Now I can say Gee A Why. It takes so much work to cover every possible order of innocent words.
Remember, this is a game aimed at children. To protect them, we have purposefully not allowed names of other Social Media sites. We (obviously) cannot moderate those sites, so we will not condone the use of them. It is far too easy for children to fall prey to online predators (and I know they exist in this pirate community, because I've personally dealt with some before).
Though this game was aimed at children by Disney, it isn't anymore. And on the Disney subject itself, what about all the oversensitive moms who would say it promote violence, illegal activities, rebellion against authority, etc? You cannot try to be accountable for the exposure of children(what few may play this game) to social media, let alone inappropriate content on it, because players can resort to Discord, Steam chat, Teamspeak, Skype, etc to get the information across and thus you are still responsible for the poor child having freedom of speech indirectly through your game leading to content that he can get to ANY OTHER WAY if he chooses, and overwhelmingly likely does many times each day. Since it's inevitable that "these children" see that kind of content every day all the time, they will, statistically and according to your wording, have much more experience with "online predators" than they ever would within the game let alone outside of the game such as "social media" that they're led to from within the game. It happens everywhere.
For all of you adults that would like to speak outside of TLOPO, you can direct someone to go to this site in TLOPO chat (the web address is on the WhiteList). Once there, you can speak via PM and share what you wish.
Yes, for all of us adults and older teenagers. And so can the children, the poor, poor, children, making your efforts to shelter them from what they see every day meaningless.
I'm not even asking to remove the blacklist! That's where 90% of this would happen anyways. All I want is a removal of the whitelist system because it's so constraining, and inappropriate words can be added to the blacklist through the forum in the same way we do with the whitelist. This would normally lead one to believe that a lack of whitelist would make moderation on the chat required, when that's not true. Measures can be taken to encourage adults and mature teenagers to discourage and report sharing of personal information(which is already very easy to do), trolling, and otherwise inappropriate behavior. There are plenty of people mature enough to do that.
