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A Word from the Developers
Dueling Nexus is a large, worldwide community, close to 2 million registered users since our public alpha launch in 2016, we’ve grown far past what we originally thought possible. Since then, we’ve tirelessly worked to perfect our game, fixing many issues and adding new features such as Ranked Mode, the Battle Pass, Achievements, and much more.
We additionally host a vibrant and active Discord community, with over 86,000 members, we’ve worked hard since 2019 to ensure our community was welcoming to all. However, as recent events have highlighted, there are areas where our community members were vulnerable to harassment and threats- the in-game chat. We’ve taken steps in the past to combat this issue by implementing a word filter into our chat, which censored any message containing certain words such as slurs and heavy handed insults. However, we know we can do more; as such, we’ve taken proactive steps to provide a safer environment for all our users.
Chat Moderation features
Firstly, we’ve enhanced our in-game chat filter, which will now filter out slurs and other harmful words in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. This enhanced filter is boosted by regex expressions and keywords which should additionally filter out words that use special characters in place of letters. This filter, once triggered, will block all of the user’s subsequent messages for the rest of the game, providing players with a less disrupting play experience.
However, we are aware that a simple filter is not enough to deter all forms of harassment. As such, we’ve created a new channel in our Discord Server, #user-reports, a channel dedicated to providing feedback regarding abusive users in-game who may be bypassing our chat moderation filter, or harassing you in ways that do not trigger the filter.
In general, if a user bypasses our filter, we will add their words into our filter to make it tougher to bypass. Additionally, if a user in-game who is also in our Discord Server is found to be abusive in-game, then they may be punished within the server; actions include being given strikes, being timed out or permanently muted, or even banned from the server. Truly troublesome users who are repeatedly reported will be investigated, and additional actions may be taken against their in-game account.
More to come in the future
This is just the beginning. Dueling Nexus is a truly global interconnected community of Yugioh players. Users may have come to use for our game, our wiki, our Deck Sharing platform, or for our vibrant community. And with that, we want to make our stances very clear – we will not tolerate racism, transphobia, homophobia, or other negative remarks towards any individual, on the basis of their identity. For now, we will monitor the reception of these features, and adjust them as needed. Additional in-game features will also be coming very soon, so be on the look out for those. Thank you to all of our players for your continued support; we hope to continue providing you all with a welcoming and safe environment for you all to play in.
