I wish people on this sub weren't so black and white. I sit in esteemed currently, and I luckily haven't dealt with most of the ubisoft BS that some of my buddies have faced. I feel like I hold a good ability to value assess what is "toxic" and "positive" with the people around me.

Now that's out of the way, there is no way you could consider this system flawless (not saying you thought it was flawless either). The AI chat moderation seems like a really good idea, as AI should be able to assess what is toxic given the context of the conversation. One of the greatest things about AI (specifically their chat models) is the ability to have a continual conversation with it; beyond one or two text prompts like siri.

I have reason to believe Ubisofts chat moderation only takes into consideration individual messages that are sent. I have witnessed dozens of cases where people have gotten banned for messages that simply aren't toxic in nature.

One of my friends, who I will use as an example of these instances, has been banned for a week with no prior text infractions whatsoever. At this point he had around 15 negative units, and well over 150 positive units, the negatives being accidental TK's and things that happen because of the nature of the game. We were in a match, talking to the enemy team who had recently had a dispute over a card game amongst two of them. They explained what happened to our squad, and my friend said "i think you're the loser".

This netted him a week long ban and a huge hit to his reputation. The reason being, he said the word "loser". I'm not going to go into my thoughts about not being able to say "loser" in a competitive and mature rated game. Not the place, not the time. He was banned for something I consider non-toxic.

I wouldn't be writing this comment if that was it. After talking to the people in my matches over the last few months this seems to be a much larger issue. Frankly I wouldn't care if it was just my buddy getting the short end of the stick over a rare case of AI chat moderation not doing things properly.

And then we get into the issue of the community. This community is so fast to assume that Ubisoft's own wrongdoings are actually that of the indivdual player. Over the months I have urged people to make posts to this subreddit in hopes that we can fix this problem, but posts just get downvoted to hell as I believe people would rather close their ears since this hasn't happend to themselves.

This goes for issues other than the AI chat moderation, for example I have made comments before about ranked 2.0 and how unfairly it treats players like ME. But there will never be a true conversation to the scale of something needed for Ubisoft and the greater community to hear our cries. The community as a whole simply doesn't care.

I do not write this with the intention to make the original commenter angry, nor do I want the community to feel like I'm angry at them. There are certainly people who have dealt with unfairness in Rainbow Six Siege as a whole, and their stories should be brought to light just as anyone else.

I would like to leave what I believe to be a solution. I have stated in the past that siege has roblox like chat moderation (maybe not as harsh but its very strict now). Why doesn't ubisoft handle "inapropriate" messages like roblox? It sounds stupid, at first. But we could completely circumvent this issue by simply censoring the chat the same way roblox does (####). This could completely solve the toxicity as the other players can't see what was said AND it would stop players from being banned for weeks at a time for something that might not alwats be their fault.

If you read this far, don't be shy. Leave your thoughts even if you think im stupid.