Whew, you can not breathe a sigh of relief if you were a Wii U hopeful worried about seeing a ton of crude dick drawings on Miiverse. Nintendo has come out to say that they will be monitoring things and laying down a swift hammer of censoring for anybody who thinks they can be a rude punk online (the nerve!).
Thus, the Miiverse will be a beacon of wholesome family values and not a thriving Dickopolis.
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Iwata said Nintendo planned to use a three-prong approach to combat misbehavior.
The first is content filtering, which can be done with software that can scan for naughty words. That, of course, isn’t foolproof because gamers can be a deviously creative bunch when it comes to alternative spellings.
That’s why Iwata said the company was also planning to use a second method — “human resources.” Nintendo plans to hire people to monitor content on Miiverse.
The filtering will be done before the posts are published, Iwata said. With software, that can take a few seconds. But humans need a lot more time to manually sift through content.
As a result, there will probably be a delay between the time a user creates a post and when it appears in the Miiverse feed. How long depends on how many posts are created and how many people Nintendo has to do the work.(...)
The third technique that Nintendo will employ will be the community itself, as users can flag inappropriate content. But that’s not ideal because it means that some people will almost certainly have seen an offending post before it is taken down.
The first is content filtering, which can be done with software that can scan for naughty words. That, of course, isn’t foolproof because gamers can be a deviously creative bunch when it comes to alternative spellings.
That’s why Iwata said the company was also planning to use a second method — “human resources.” Nintendo plans to hire people to monitor content on Miiverse.
The filtering will be done before the posts are published, Iwata said. With software, that can take a few seconds. But humans need a lot more time to manually sift through content.
As a result, there will probably be a delay between the time a user creates a post and when it appears in the Miiverse feed. How long depends on how many posts are created and how many people Nintendo has to do the work.(...)
The third technique that Nintendo will employ will be the community itself, as users can flag inappropriate content. But that’s not ideal because it means that some people will almost certainly have seen an offending post before it is taken down.
Thus, the Miiverse will be a beacon of wholesome family values and not a thriving Dickopolis.
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