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Abusive Player/Racist Comments by xfamouzo on Horsa11

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    Abusive Player/Racist Comments by xfamouzo on Horsa11

    There is a player on world Horsa11 who continually uses racist names (n*gger) and racist comments regarding Asians in Global chat. I enjoy your game and I enjoy participating in global chat, but the hate speech is too much. I have repeatedly reported his/her comments using the Report button, but the player continues to say terrible things in global chat - I find his/her hate and racist speech incredibly offensive. Is there nothing that Kabam will do to prevent racist hate speech on chat? It appears that if certain words are used, an automated message appears in Global chat to stop the hate speech, but this player continues making these types of remarks. It does not act as a deterent. PLEASE ask this player to stop making racist comments in Global chat. I BEG you - KoC is a GAME, and I should not have to read such comments in a game that I enjoy playing.
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    Originally posted by Noob_58GX7Z9 View Post
    There is a player on world Horsa11 who continually uses racist names (n*gger) and racist comments regarding Asians in Global chat. I enjoy your game and I enjoy participating in global chat, but the hate speech is too much. I have repeatedly reported his/her comments using the Report button, but the player continues to say terrible things in global chat - I find his/her hate and racist speech incredibly offensive. Is there nothing that Kabam will do to prevent racist hate speech on chat? It appears that if certain words are used, an automated message appears in Global chat to stop the hate speech, but this player continues making these types of remarks. It does not act as a deterent. PLEASE ask this player to stop making racist comments in Global chat. I BEG you - KoC is a GAME, and I should not have to read such comments in a game that I enjoy playing.
    Thanks for reporting this, we will look into it, can you pleas tell me the player's name?

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      Thank you, Riccardo. I appreciate you personally looking into this player. As noted in the title my initial post, the player's name is xfamouzo and the server is Horsa11. S/he made comments in Global chat using racially derisive language, including his/her beliefs regarding people of color. As a person of color, I was absolutely shocked and horrified by the comments. I suspect Kabam has some way to prevent foul language (including the term n*gger) in Global chat, but the apparent work-around by xfamouzo is to make an obvious misspelling (such as nigga or niggah). It was not just the word(s) or term(s) that were offensive, but in conjunction with the derisive names, s/he also expressed certain racially-based stereotypes in conjunction with the foul language. For example, xfamouzo's comments were in respect to certain stereotypes regarding the dietary habits of African-Americans. Also, xfamouzo's comments regarding the intelligence level of Asians made in Global chat did not contain any curse words, but merely his/her belief in certain racial stereotypes. Last night was the first I heard/read any of xfamouzo's comments, so those are the only two offensive comments I know of.
      As an attorney who focuses much of my practice on workplace discrimination issues, I may be *particularly* sensitive to this kind of language and commentary, however, I also believe that Kabam should make EVERY effort to prevent hate speech/racially derisive language where and when it can. As my experience in-game leads me to believe, Global chat is an unmonitored and unsupervised open chat room. As such, I would hope that Kabam carefully consider comments made by players with first hand knowledge and complaints regarding hate speech in Global chat. I assume that Kabam is a socially responsible company, and creates its games for the enjoyment of adults as well as children. Of course, this kind of language and race-based hate speech isn't appropriate for children, and games that permit this behavior should be available for adults only. If you or any other representative of Kabam would like further information regarding what I read and when it occured, please email me to the address associated with my account/username.
      all star

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        Originally posted by Noob_58GX7Z9 View Post
        Thank you, Riccardo. I appreciate you personally looking into this player. As noted in the title my initial post, the player's name is xfamouzo and the server is Horsa11. S/he made comments in Global chat using racially derisive language, including his/her beliefs regarding people of color. As a person of color, I was absolutely shocked and horrified by the comments. I suspect Kabam has some way to prevent foul language (including the term n*gger) in Global chat, but the apparent work-around by xfamouzo is to make an obvious misspelling (such as nigga or niggah). It was not just the word(s) or term(s) that were offensive, but in conjunction with the derisive names, s/he also expressed certain racially-based stereotypes in conjunction with the foul language. For example, xfamouzo's comments were in respect to certain stereotypes regarding the dietary habits of African-Americans. Also, xfamouzo's comments regarding the intelligence level of Asians made in Global chat did not contain any curse words, but merely his/her belief in certain racial stereotypes. Last night was the first I heard/read any of xfamouzo's comments, so those are the only two offensive comments I know of.
        As an attorney who focuses much of my practice on workplace discrimination issues, I may be *particularly* sensitive to this kind of language and commentary, however, I also believe that Kabam should make EVERY effort to prevent hate speech/racially derisive language where and when it can. As my experience in-game leads me to believe, Global chat is an unmonitored and unsupervised open chat room. As such, I would hope that Kabam carefully consider comments made by players with first hand knowledge and complaints regarding hate speech in Global chat. I assume that Kabam is a socially responsible company, and creates its games for the enjoyment of adults as well as children. Of course, this kind of language and race-based hate speech isn't appropriate for children, and games that permit this behavior should be available for adults only. If you or any other representative of Kabam would like further information regarding what I read and when it occured, please email me to the address associated with my account/username.
        thanks,
        we want the chat to be a pleasant place for everybody to have fun. We are working on improving features in chat that will allow players to block most effectively abuse and spam. For now please take advantage of the mute/ignore button by clicking on the player that you want to block and performing this action will mute him for 24h

        Also, for privacy issues we can't disclose results of the investigations.

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