^^^ I believe Dahall is actually correct in some terms. Let me check the ToS and rules.

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/List_of_known_filtered_words

'The information here is provided for reference only. Use of these words in public or via unwanted tells in the game can be basis for other players to ignore you, or submit a complaint. Misspelling the curse words to get around the filters are even more likely to get you in trouble. See the Terms of Service and Community Standards for further information.'

Best report those who do 'misspell the curse words'.

A little more research:

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Community_Standards

'Keep it clean! - Using or linking to vulgar, obscene or offensive language or material is considered swearing. This includes any racial, sexual, unlawful, religious slurs, insults or other deliberately offensive remarks directed at another knight. While there is a chat filter present in the game, this does not excuse offensive language or behavior. Misspelling or mis-spacing words to get around the filter will be treated as swearing and dealt with accordingly.'

People who do try to surpass the profanity system can be reported by someone if that person wishes to do so. However in most cases, swearing does actually insult someone so don't wait and watch the world turn around. If someone does insult someone else with swearing / vulgar language, do report them.

well maybe they are trying to say one thing when others think they are trying to say something else because there are many curse words that have the same number of letters, so when its filtered people may take it the wrong way

No prob.
You may wish to leave this here in General Discussions in order to let people know of your claim and what people can do when in your situation - or graveyard it if you find this thread has no meaning now.

people are lazy/stupid/impatient and don't know how to read the options/instructions/patch notes.

I will admit that I curse quite frequently, but I make sure to not misspell things just so others have to see my pottymouth too. X(

I've reported several people who intentionally were bypassing the filter. There are some words that completely drop what you were going to say (even with all filters turned off), and generally if those words are bypassed I'll send in a report for it. Especially when people are threatening to do certain explicit things to me. :s

From my understanding the filter is there so that the people who don't want to see it don't have to. If they really didn't want us to curse at all, I don't think they'd let us disable it. I guess I could be wrong, though.

I really should pull it back anyway ahaha.. at least I manage to keep it clean on the forums.

Remember: SK is geared more towards kids ages 13+. So that means KEEP YO (barnacle) TOGEDER

...my bad XD

GM note: Next poster downthread has it right. Don't swear on the forums, please.

I still think there should be an option to show your messages unfiltered to yourself (and only to yourself). That way you still could let off some steam without bothering others too much.

Right now, they might as well make every swearword bring your HP down one pip. It'd be just as pointless and frustrating.

I intentionally set my chat filter to none, just in case of raging party members so a fun screencap could be taken and sneakily reported.

*And to make sure no non-vulgar or offensive words get accidentally filtered in the process*.

*don't trust this line it's full of carp

Wait seriously? They can ban you JUST for swearing, even though there's wordfilters? That doesn't sound right. It probably wasn't the literal words but just harassment in general. If you tell someone "get out of my face you stupid loser, everyone hates you and I wish you'd die" (or something to that effect) in a serious manner directed at a specific person you can probably be reported even if there's no actual swear words.

@ Whimsicality

Same thing happened to me except more rage-inducing. Some little idiot in-game (not gonna name because "naming and shaming policy" even though I should because it's a SHAME that these types of people lurk around in this game) does exactly what you mentioned, being blatantly racist/homophobic, calling me and my friends every swear word and name in the book for no reason, telling us to kill ourselves, going way over the top with insults, even attempting to stalk me and my friends via Steam/Facebook/Whatsapp to harass us even further than just pm's in-game. Finally one day I tell him simply to "f off" and guess what happens? I get banned less than a minute later for use of "Offensive, abusive, and sexual language" and as well as "evading the chat filter in order to curse/insult other players." Don't believe me? Here. and the dumbest part of this is the "evading the chat filter" part because I did not evade it in any way. The only swear word I said was the f-bomb and the last time I checked the f-bomb in its whole is filtered. It will appear on your screen if you have your filter off (which I personally do) but anyone who has it on will either have it dropped or comicified depending on their setting. Meanwhile I get a 2 day ban, and other moron doesn't even get a warning (and yes he's been reported multiple times by several of my friends.) It's crap like this that made me come up with a conspiracy:

It's almost like these people either know a GM personally or bribe them with cash to let them slip away from ToS violations, or basically a form of a "Get out of jail free" card. If this is true, and if it's the lack of content updates/communication/money-milking promos left right and center that don't make me quit the game it's this kind of stuff that most definitely will.

(Note from Hyp, edited in because it doesn't really need its own post: Khomie, I had a look at your suspension. It doesn't seem to be as you're describing - that is, you were not suspended for saying "f off". If you'd like to shoot us a support request so we can do it privately, we'd be happy to copy-paste in the chat which resulted in your suspension. (That goes for everyone, actually - if anything happens with your account that you're confused about, please do ask us! The point of warnings and suspensions is as an educational thing, after all, to let players know that a behavior is not acceptable. We'd much rather clarify once than suspend a dozen times.)

@OP

I suggest you simply stop using the internet. If the mere sight of a swear word is even slightly bothering you, well, you'll always be bothered. I find it incredible that this kind of mentality actually makes it tedious to have a casual conversation around haven with other people; can't even say something as unharmful as "gaaay" (please be offended) without risking a warning. You'll find that NO ONE is actually trying to evade the filter. The filter is just not good enough to spot common ways of saying "swear" words and so unfortunately you will see some of them, and likely your paranoid brain will think those players are trying to let everyone know they're swearing.
The application by the way by GM's of the filter rules is terrible. It's blind, contextless, brainless. I wonder if maybe there isn't a script running those warnings, just looking at the logs, finding a curse word and automatically sending out a warning.
You don't wanna have to send out "chat filter evasion" warnings anymore? Improve the damn chat filter, it's not good enough. Players shouldn't have to think "dang maybe this word won't be filtered" whenever they feel like dropping a swear word.

One time I got a warning for making up curse words.

What's wrong with rope?! You can tie knots in it.. and fog?!

I obviously can't speak on behalf of the GMs, especially with regards to specific people's cases, but I've been playing OOO games since 2006 and their policy on language has always been the same. It's basic common sense and it honestly surprises me so many people don't get it.

Firstly, the chat filter is there for two reasons: #1, anyone who doesn't want to see profanities can keep their filter on. #2, certain words are a complete no-no; those are the words that, when typed, will cause your entire line to be dropped from chat completely. They're the words OOO deems too offensive to be used in any context, ever (and I think they do a good job of deciding which words are worthy of this status).

Secondly, filter evasion is against the rules because we, as players, have the right to decide whether or not we see profanities and evading the filter takes that right away from people. So the words that are filtered are not too obscene to be used in any context, but they are rude enough that OOO provides us with the tools to block them out if we wish to.

Context matters, as Hyperion pointed out; I curse a LOT and I've never had so much as a warning in my eight years of playing OOO games because I don't swear [i]at[/i] people. I also never use words that could potentially offend a subset of people - if in doubt, stick to f*** and sh***.

Also, just a heads up to the people talking about their own specific bans/suspensions: OOO have been known to post the exact circumstances of a ban on the forums if the offender insists they did nothing wrong, lies about what happened, and uses those lies to make OOO look unfair. It's very entertaining for the rest of us, but you may want to reconsider before doing that.