Iwata on Miiverse's 3 levels of content filtering, says 30 minute delay on message publishing is acceptable
Here's all the details Iwata was willing to give on the subject of Miiverse comment filtering.
- three levels of security
- first level is software-based content filtering for bad words
- second level includes newly hired people who will police the Miiverse
- this filtering will be done before the posts are published
- the time it takes for a message to post depends on how many people are posting and how many staffers Nintendo has working on the project
- Iwata looking for feedback at launch for how long is an acceptable time to wait for sending a post to the Miiverse to actually publishing
- Iwata feels that 30 minutes from post sent in to being published on the Miiverse is acceptable
- third level of security involves gamers themselves, since they can flag questionable posts
- three levels of security
- first level is software-based content filtering for bad words
- second level includes newly hired people who will police the Miiverse
- this filtering will be done before the posts are published
- the time it takes for a message to post depends on how many people are posting and how many staffers Nintendo has working on the project
- Iwata looking for feedback at launch for how long is an acceptable time to wait for sending a post to the Miiverse to actually publishing
- Iwata feels that 30 minutes from post sent in to being published on the Miiverse is acceptable
- third level of security involves gamers themselves, since they can flag questionable posts
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this is just a nonsensical approach to messaging, i mean come the *crag* on people already had that down like 10 years ago it's an old concept. maybe iwata just doesn't use computers
Why do I get the feeling that "I don't like this game" or "This isn't very fun" will be among the phrases that will be filtered out?
we should flood them with so many obscene messages that it becomes unmanagable
It's most likely just for that thing that pops up when you first start up the Wii U, everything else will probably have a parental adviser and control option in-system just like the other systems, hell even the wii had it. Honestly I don't really care, private messaging will still most likely be uncensored, and group/friend messaging will probably be uncensored as well. I already predicted this when they showed it off at the Pre-E3 thing anyways. It makes perfec sense that the public message board would have censorship, and it's not so much to protect the children as it is the fact that some people just don't like seeing obscenities up on the screen whenever they boot up their system. I DON'T however approve of the read-before-display thing (except I don't mind it for that big boot up thing becuase that is obviously not urgent, unlike group/friend messaging)