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Nintendo explains their approach to rude, mean, and hurtful user comments in Splatoon 2

by rawmeatcowboy
18 June 2018
GN Version 5.0

If you've played Splatoon 2, you've no doubt seen tons of different messages users have created. They pop up all over the game's lobby, and feature some amazing artwork, kind messages, and more. Of course, there's also people out there who spam the system with distasteful messages. How does Nintendo handle those who use the service to post unsavory content? Splatoon producer Hisashi Nogami explained...

“We really don’t want people to use the plaza here as a way to hurt people or say hurtful things to other people or do anything considered against the law. We do have a portion of our development team that is responsible for spotting the worst offenders when it comes to comments and artwork and making sure those don’t get seen

We know a lot of topics are something someone feels positively about and another person might feel negatively about. We don’t want to bring the hammer down too hard on everything. And so as long as something hasn’t risen to the top for the wrong reasons, something that’d be violating the rating for some reason, we try and let the system basically sort it out. We really hope that people use this system as a means of communication and celebrating the game.”

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