Bad Words With "Random" Character Generation?

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Note: It is a little hard to know what category to put this in.

If this is the wrong place, please let me know.

A big part of a game I am working on commonly makes use of a base96 converter system…Eventually, there is a possibility that a bad word could be spelt with one of these base96 numbers since they make use of letters.

My game doesn’t display these random codes to the player…They are all used for the backend, though some instances that replicate to clients will be named with these codes. Is it okay to continue, or would it be safe to try a different system?

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You can use this to check

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I mean, if a random code gets moderated and turned in to hashtags, then there is a very high possibility of two instances having the same name.

My main question is if it is okay for potential bad words to be created without being shown to the player.

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I think the TOS does not permit ‘bad words’ in code, so this would probably fall under that.
Now, will you get in trouble for it? Doubtful.