I agree. I've been sick of seeing copypastas while on sylestia, usually looking through people's profiles for that note that says 'don't release my pets.'

As someone who personally dealt with self harm, seeing the struggles I faced be trivialized in these textposts is incredibly hurtful and sometimes triggering, not to mention insanely insensitive.

This is an "About Me" problem. The "About Me" section needs filters to block out inappropriate words. Some buttons and functions like the ones in the forum editing page would also be nice.

The problem isn't exactly "bad" words. Much of the content on these copypastas are suggestive, forcefully religious, etc. etc.

While a filter could do something, that would be incredibly difficult (near impossible) to do because it's so easy to bypass them.

Manually removing every single copy-pasta, let alone finding them, would be time-consuming and tedious work. More players will always join and add more copypastas.

Handing out bans for these triggering copypastas or at least making it known that they are not allowed might also quell the issue somewhat, but I do believe that the "About Me" section needs filters.

I do completely agree with you. These copypastas need to go.

I completely agree, something needs to be done. These are highly inappropriate and potentially triggering. Even if the fix is just a player-controlled filter where each player can set specific words to be filtered for themselves, and if they go to a profile that displays any of those words, the profile text simply will not show for them. This could be a setting players could set from their own profile, with a differently colored button to stand out and be noticeable, and when you click the button, there could be a short description of how it works and why it was implemented so that players who do not know of this thread also know how to use it and why. This would be a much easier fix than trying to block words site-wide, or look on every profile to determine which ones have inappropriate text.

Why not just add a report option like on regular posts?

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=102117&page=1#4 Author: Tisquares Time Posted: 3/24/2022 at 12:49 PM The problem isn't exactly "bad" words. Much of the content on these copypastas are suggestive, forcefully religious, etc. etc. While a filter could do something, that would be incredibly difficult (near impossible) to do because it's so easy to bypass them.

Exactly this.

A 'filter' would be nigh on ineffective because most of those copy pastas use ordinary words, and filtering those particular words would get many many more non-problematic about mes than not.

I think that a report button on the about me, and perhaps a ban on just copy/pastas in general (as it could be a bit difficult to determine which ones are 'okay' and which ones 'are not okay' at times) as the about me is supposed to be about the user, or as many use it, user notes.

I don't know how well a ban like that would go over, though, but it might help some. It also gives a basis for punishments that can be handed out if/when people continue to post copy/pastas to their profiles.