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Originally Posted by Lib Feathers
Listen up, Disney: a computerized spell checker is no substitute for a human brain. Any 13-year-old kid could tell you that. Stop patting youselves on the back for creating a kid-safe environment when you haven't. It's NOT a safe place for kids, even if the parents are there watching them. Another pirate said something suggestive to my daughter in Spanish the other day. The spell checker didn't do anything to stop that. Disney, drop the pretense. You're not protecting our children when you let pirates get away with some of the names they've chosen, or allowing misspelled obscenities. Either ENFORCE your own rules, or loosen them up a little so we can actually talk to each other. Post a warning: you're playing with foul-mouthed , hormone-overloaded teenagers. And then allow us to actually talk to each other.
(I can't stand hypocrisy, can you tell?)
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On the PotCO homepage, you'll see the following ESRB warning:
"Game Experience May Change During Online Play". And if you follow the link Disney provides to the ESRB website, it explains that "This notice warns those who intend to play the game online about possible exposure to chat (text, audio, video) or other types of user-generated content (e.g., maps, skins) that have not been considered in the ESRB rating assignment".
With that published warning, I don't see how you accuse Disney of hypocrisy or putting up a pretense. In fact, hypocrisy would be to complain about Disney not protecting kids, then encouraging people to "flood the Caribbean with misspelled obscenities and double entendres". And if you're being sarcastic about that, why did you list a bunch of examples?
No system is perfect, and Disney hasn't claimed that theirs is perfect. There will always be people who try to push the filters to the limit. My suggestion: instead of complaining about it on a message board, report the players who act inappropriately. Click on them, then click the "Report" button. Simple enough. Everybody needs to do their part to keep the game as kid-safe as possible.