[BeZeRkEr]

Originally posted by Com013
I am for a more brutal solution. Filters will always be by-passed.

This is my idea:

• PMs
  When you are sending a PM with a bad word the word will not be removed, but all your posts during this online session will be logged on the server and you get "swear points" depending on the word you used.
  
  As soon as you reached a certain ammount of points (mass-PMs will get you a lot of points!) you are banned from sending PMs and something like a global police will check every PM of you saved on the server. They will decide to enable PMs for you again or even to ban you completly.
  
  I was writing that the words should not be filtered out, because then the people will try to find out how the filter works, which words it knows, etc.
  
• Mass-PMs / toalls
  Those can cause a greater damage, and so they should be filtered out completly when they are containing an insulting word. You are banned from writing Mass-PMs and toalls imediatly until one of the global "Chat Police" members enables it for you again.
  
• Banning / Chat Police
  When I am speaking of this I mean global banning (chat-only, or from the whole game). The police should be global because sometimes playerworlds might be afraid to ban because their playercount would drop.
  
• Protocol of the chat
  Toalls and Mass-PMs should always be saved on the server.
  PMs to a single person are saved, but unless you used a bad word they will be deleted after you logged off - not for privacy but for storage reasons.
  If you complain about privacy you can use e-mails and programs like PGP. You don't need privacy on Graal.
  
• Trial-Accounts
  Since the players are risking no money for Trial-Accounts we need to be stricter here - the rules I wrote for mass messages would aply for single PMs, too. The police will not check you, so you will be chat-banned forever (or until you pay - then the police will check you).
  
• Recognising of bad words
  We need a better way to recognise words than just looking for some words in the database.
  Spaces and special characters would be removed, before checking for words. Some letters of other languages would be reduced to the simple latin letters: ÖöÜüÄä -> OoUuAa.
  Yes, removing special chars/spaces can cause wrong hits, but you are only banned from chatting (you can still play) and the chat-police should unban you soon.

Players of graal should have some privacy in their private messages