Ingame censoring not smart

[Smackadoom]

Please explain to me why: 4 5*s
Is censored in game chat.

[zephyr1]

Because the in-game chat censor is both simplistic and overly cautious.

A couple previous times this particular one has been discussed:

@zephyr1

It’s a silly censor, but it’s because 4 = A and 5 = S, so it sees it as an alternative way of spelling an otherwise censored word.

My favorite is sh17, “the forbidden stronghold,” which the chat censors because 1 = I and 7 = T.

@Hrairoo

Let me help you ASSess this…if your game chat language is set to English I am going to guess that it is because a 4 kind of looks like an A, and a 5 sort of kind of looks like an S, and the censor can’t be fooled by an apostrophe. The censor is savage!

[yelnats_24]

If the censoring is right, they would have censored a class name

Rogue class translation in Indonesian language is a curse/profanity word