Thats a really accurate statement Zep, thinks for posting this! I myself have experienced this, I wish they would just let there moderating bot do all the work and them actually do work.

Anyone who thinks that the people who give out the suspensions/bannings and the people who develop the content are one and the same, you are dead wrong. Totally different group. Software developers would never be allowed to just sit and review chat logs.

The way that works is:
The filters are set to look for particular words, phrases, or context. The algorithms will flag and immediately send a response for outright swearing. This is ongame and immediate. It will also send a report to your account.
Other phrases and words do not send an immediate response to you, but send a notice to the reviewers that there was something questionable. They then go and pull the chat logs for review. (Here's where individual personalities come into play.)
I also believe that there are times when a reviewer will just sit and watch the chat scroll by at random. In-game live review of the chat. I can't prove this, but strongly suspect it.
And, I agree with Zep, I believe that they will target a person, or group of people, after handing out a suspension. They seem to come in bunches. Almost immediately after someone gets suspended, their friends, guildmates, and even others who just happened to be nearby start getting watched.


Welcome to the ban section of the guild Aod! It's obvious that Amp wasn't a Pixie before coming here.

LOL! No pixie dust in me!! I really do not think I deserved this. . . we were just having a lil fun. . . . . . and i cannot get crewed today, my chat is definately being read by a nasty rat with big ears on my OTHER account!!! GRRRRRR I will have Jason on tonight!

Hahahaha, nice, Zep! :laughks2:

Lol...rite of passage. Does that mean Sarah and I aren't Dueces?

All I've ever even gotten a warning for was the using variations on the word damn..when telling guildies about my sister's parrot named "Dammit.". (named so that when it got to squawking too much.. She could say "shut up dammit")

Not to be contrary, but very early on I did flat out swear at a pirate not once, but twice. I told him he was being a pain... Ya know. Never got a warning or anything. Was not very happy with myself after that. In fact, not long after doing that I decided I hated who I was as a pirate and left the game.

We see how that lasted!:laughks2: I'm very glad to be back, and yet even 7 weeks later I'm still in shock that I never got a permaban for all out swearing. I really was incredibly rude that day. I haven't been that mean since, but I'll tell you what, I am very careful about what I say in chat.

That was probably BEFORE they put the newest chat monitoring software in. Nowadays, if you swear, it tells you right away. There's bunches of posts and threads about it. Ask Sarah, she potty mouthed on Test just to see if it worked.

Doing my duty for the greater good ;) And yeah, it works...

A word of warning to all. . . try not to use the word "mouth" on pirates, it sets off the alarms. . . .

mouth? disney? whats wrong with mouth? we use it everyday, why cant we say it?

I'm A Deuce... I'm a Deuce!!

It's now official!! I've gotten my very first BANNING!!!

And just to warn you all.. I got it for talking about the names that they ...lol.. approved, then violently snatched from us.

So...what does that mean?

It means that DW has so impressed the powers that be with our linguistic chicanery, that they have a entered some of our very own creations into their list of "banned words."

Meanwhile, Kelly, Cat, Liz, and Lyta will be sipping Sangria on Kelly's cabana raft.... anyone feel like feeding us grapes?

UMMMM, WTG?? Kelly!!!

ROFL! Another Duece hits the leaderboards!

24 or 72 hours? Was it specifically for the mentioning of some of the "removed" names?

We'll keep the chat open. Have a good vacation.

KELLY! Not guild night! drat

Well, enjoy the vaca, get caught up on some sleep, be on vent if you need a DW fix ;)

It was for "Mature Language" in the chat log... and the section they quoted me was the section where we were talking about the specific names that were "removed."

24 hr banning...

And now you see why I'm sure that the DW have their own section in the Disney lexicon of verbal violations.

Dang! I thought my personal "chat gestapo" went home after I logged off.