May i ask, why can i say bad in chat, but not noob/nub? While noob means new player. Doesnt that makes bad more toxic? I dont even see the reason why noob is blocked tbh
The main reason is the uses that players can give to the word.
The word "noob" was tested in the past, and we detected its use was exclusively to address a player in a derogatory way, and there are no other contexts in which it is applied except the sentence "I'm a noob".
On the other hand, the word "bad" can be used to refer to a player, but there are multiple in-game situations where it is said in a non-offensive way, such as: "this sword is so bad", or real life situations such as "I had a bad day".
We always look for the pros and cons of the words we add to the filters. It is possible that adding "bad" will decrease the toxicity, but at the same time it will cause a lot of false positives.