Sorry not going to further the debate. Good luck.
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It's because you aren't supposed to discuss anything of a sexual nature, in addition to anything threatening or racist, etc. It's in the ToS. They're just trying to keep the game safe for kids, so they have a strict chat filter.
It's probably the very word "sex" that is blocked, and homosexual has that word in it. Heterosexual would probably be blocked too. Anything with a disallowed word in it, or anything that looks like it, is filtered.
The filter is not perfect though, and I'm surprised "rape" wouldn't be blocked. Also, you may see people getting filtered for false positives such as "trash it" or "finish this".
The devs do take a recommendations for the chat filter -- you might get farther by pming them.
It's a good thing you weren't around for that brief period where if you got censored, the system automatically reported you and after three warnings you were muted for a specific time period. People were getting muted for saying things like "Cru** *the Keeper." Was a bit funny (only In restrospect -- was a royal pain when it was actually happening).
So yeah, if you have recommendations for the chat filter, send a pm to a dev. Can't promise they'll take all your ideas, but you may get farther than discussing it here.
And sorry you're getting so much flack for your original post. I dunno why people are giving you such a hard time when there are always dating advice threads in off-topic and no one ever complains about those.
First of all, u can use gay as an insult and second, nobody cares!!
whats the big deal??? im hetro but im not gonna spread tha word on a forum for a game. (oh now i did ! well it was just an example)
When u wanna shout out the news ur gay go to a gay forum, i really dont care if ur hetro gay or whatever im just playing the game.
We didn't sit in a room trying to coming up with words, we downloaded the list from teh internetz. If you google "swear word list" or "bad word list", I'm sure you'll find plenty of resources. The list has been tweaked over time, with words/variations added and removed. If you have words that you think should be add/removed, let us know via PMs or support(at)spacetimestudios.com.
-ALS