When adding comments to my Lounge I noticed that the PS3 checks for (so called) inappropriate words. In the comments I've tried to set it to "Hardcore Racing" but it refused as it says that it's "inappropriate language". Now that thing will create allot of false-positives. Anyone else tried and got this message?
Sony's official PlayStation boards refused to accept "cockpit" in a board about racing games. I see which part they had a problem with, but the word is still a normal, unoffensive, perfectly mundane term and shouldn't get censored. As I recall, I started bypassing the word filter by plugging in a period or something to get it to post the word, but as I recall those posts got deleted for bypassing the word filter. I refused to accept the board's retarded censorship of "cockpit", even though I
could use alternative terminology. I shouldn't
have to use alternatives for "cockpit", so it was a sort of protest against absurdity.
I had other problems with Nazi Germany (boardus.playstation.com) anyway. They went overboard about censoring out any mention of anything non-PlayStation. At a glance, that might sound perfectly reasonable, as it was a PlayStation site and one could argue that topics should be PlayStation-related. However, sometimes using non-PlayStation products as an illustration can be useful to a PlayStation-related point, but you still couldn't do it.
Let me illustrate. After the GT5 demo came out a long time ago (remember, it had two cars and the Indy road course), and people were complaining about lots of aspects of it. Many of those complaints had at least some degree of legitimacy, even if they were perhaps often just nitpicking. However, one complaint was regarding the position of the camera in the cockpit, which players were complaining was too far forward, as I recall. I actually defended it and pointed out that GT's primary rival, Forza, had the exact same complaint about its interior camera positioning. Even though I was defending a PlayStation game by pointing out the exact same complaint people made with GT's most direct rival, I still got modded for mentioning a non-PlayStation game, even though it was fully relevant.
Using a similar illustration now for the whole censorship of words issue, FM3 forbids various words, though I don't recall if any of them were ridiculous. Off the top of my head, I know you can't look up "Pedobear" in the Storefront.
The difference, however, between Sony's board and something like the Xbox.com forums or ForzaMotorsport.net's forums is that the latter sites won't forbid mention of Gran Turismo, PlayStation, and so forth. In fact, when last I frequented the FM boards, there was even a dedicated Gran Turismo topic, and the moderators were fully aware of it, and allowed it to thrive. They didn't get their panties in a bunch whenever someone mentioned GT or PS3, but Sony enjoys perpetuating the illusion that they exist in a vacuum and will stop at nothing to maintain that illusion.
I was shocked to find the word "engine", of all words in a car game, is censored! haha.
And it's because PART of the word "engine" is a slang word for male genitalia en Francais. (I think.)
I plugged it into Google Translate, and it suspected it was Turkish. I changed it to French and it translated it as "gear" in English.
Then i ask: *? 
