Changing the formatting of an emoticon or symbol is not the same as exchanging a word. That’s censorship. Will you be adding a profanity filter on other words as well?
Encouraging players to use a different word. Sure, on board for it. Changing the content of players posts, not for. Forced censorship is the first step to facism.
I still don’t understand why we are replacing that word though. It seems much more barring freedom to actively stomp out the word in a non-racist setting than it does letting people use it.
After all, the theme of the game is that the town mob is angry, and will try their best to kill anyone who might be evil, legally or otherwise.
Eliminating the ability to post the word is banning it btw, not sure how you can say you’re not banning a word when you are designing software to force replace it?
Imo townkill sucks because it is confusing, is vigilante kill a town kill? Or is any other role that lets town kill a townkill?
“Seth was killed so his top sr gtacc is sus rn”
“But didnt we think he was tk’ed?”
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