My Xbox Gamertag ban

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 16:50

Oh, I see. Well, I'd be happy to 'help' either way, but I had incorrectly grasped the situation, ja.

I do think though that RW is a decent username to try against - and arguably, 'head' and 'war' are potentially offensive...

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

Quote:

(new gamertags come with 1 month of free Live Gold)

Not always.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

MrD wrote:

Quote:

(new gamertags come with 1 month of free Live Gold)

Not always.

Oh, that scuppers my plan. The one my mate made a few weeks ago did. I'm sure I have enough 24 hour free trial cards to sort it out though.

CUS wrote:

head/war

I think your tag is neither obviously totally inoffensive or really rude. I need the extremes I'm afraid.

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 17:01

Well fuck you then, twat head.

edit: oh my tag isn't offensive enough. Sorry.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 17:18

Let's do this shit then.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

CUS, myoptika, you both have PMs.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 17:48

Sorted. Now I wait.

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 18:08

Okay.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 19:22

Mission accomplished.

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 19:23

'The woodlouse is in the oubliette'.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Awesome! Thanks both!

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Be sure to inform us of results

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25588

Sorry, Richard, I haven't been in all day and haven't followed this thread but do I have it right that XBox live have made you change your gamertag because your actually surname is 'not allowed'? I thought someone had to complain about your tag for MSoft to ban your name? Has some plank actually complained about your name?

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Read the thread! Follow the links! etc.!

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 19:34

Mimi - eek. Er. Basically... go to the COD4 thread, about two pages back. At LEAST.

This is what happens when the most exciting and interesting forum-related event is hidden inside one thread about a stupid boy's game that only Bezzie Mates play for Cuddles. Even with this thead.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25588

I wonder if 'cockburn' would be allowed?

My cousin wasn't able to join Facebook because his surname is 'Stiff'.

OK, CUS, I'll go and find that thread and have a read, cheers :munkeh:

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 19:36

Mmm. Joe Cocker, Bruce Dickinson...

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25588

Dick Van Dyke.

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 19:37

Mimi wrote:

Dick Van Dyke.

WE HAVE BEEN FOOLS.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25588

Awwww, Richard, that's really crappy, and I think you are taking it very well. I would have been really upset to have found out that my name 'wasn't suitable', I think it is a bit of a joke, really, and I hope that you get a real apology and some kind of compensation. mostly, though, I hope that they back down and change your name back.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Mimi wrote:

Awwww, Richard, that's really crappy, and I think you are taking it very well. I would have been really upset to have found out that my name 'wasn't suitable', I think it is a bit of a joke, really, and I hope that you get a real apology and some kind of compensation. mostly, though, I hope that they back down and change your name back.

Hoho, If you think I'm taking that well, you should go and see the 600+ comments on Kotaku, hundreds of comments on Digg, and thousands of comments all over the internet pointing out I have a silly name

#comments" class="postlink">Here is a master list of links to places I've found talking about this. Not complete, but most of the major sites, I think.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Could be worse, you could be famous for selling a dodgy laptop on ebay. I'm not sure if that guy has recovered from that yet

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 20:07

You utter utter prick. Where the fucking FUCK is this site on that list? To think we let you in the front door and fuck our daughters... jeez.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Dimrill wrote:

You utter utter prick. Where the fucking FUCK is this site on that list? To think we let you in the front door and fuck our daughters... jeez.

Well, the list is really for my own use y'know. So I can check back in on threads every so often and stir the comments back up. This place has been in a permanent tab on my browser on all three machines I use since it opened. I don't need to maintain links to it

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 20:12

Shit. Biscuit.

You'll have to go in through the tradesman's entrance and fuck our great grandfathers now.

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2139

CUS wrote:

'The woodlouse is in the oubliette'.

"Righteous, brother. I'll collect our payment."

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 20:17

richard('Happy' - Ed)wood wrote:

Well, the forum is really for my own abuse y'know. So I can arrogantly waltz in on threads every so often and stir the peasants the fuck up. This place has been in a perfect anarchy on my browser

Scapegoating-FTFY

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Dimrill wrote:

You'll have to go in through the tradesman's entrance and fuck our great grandfathers now.

I'm not going anywhere near your great grandfather's tradesman's entrance. You're not fooling me with that one again.

Also, I put the damned link on the damned page. Don't be surprised if my mates are all up in your face now, asking what's with that beard and stuff.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

CUS wrote:

richard('Happy' - Ed)wood wrote:

Well, the forum is really for my own abuse y'know. So I can arrogantly waltz in on threads every so often and stir the peasants the fuck up. This place has been in a perfect anarchy on my browser

Scapegoating-FTFY

Dammit, you broke my code.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 20:21

richard('Happy' - Ed)wood wrote:

Don't be surprised if my mates are all up in your face now, asking what's with that beard and stuff.

As if yow've got friends. FOR LAUGHING SIR!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Dimrill wrote:

As if yow've got friends. FOR LAUGHING SIR!

YOU WOUND ME SIR MOST GREVIOUSLY

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Wow, Richard, you're just like the Jesusland picture off YakYak now.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Goatboy wrote:

Wow, Richard, you're just like the Jesusland picture off YakYak now.

Wha...?

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map

It got memed to fuck by doing the internet in a day then reaching the printed media. Always nice to see something local get big on the internet, I like being vicariously part of 'internet events' by association of forum membership, y'see?

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

This is skirting on cliquey.

kalmar · **Posted:** Fri May 23, 2008 12:03

Goatboy wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map

It got memed to fuck by doing the internet in a day then reaching the printed media. Always nice to see something local get big on the internet, I like being vicariously part of 'internet events' by association of forum membership, y'see?

Yeah, that was excellent. "Holy crap Kemper, you pissed off Jesusland!"

Pod · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2568

richard('Happy' - Ed)wood wrote:

It would help if I elaborated I expect.

I want two people to each register a new gamertag. One will be offensive and one very inoffensive -- I won't put the names in here as I don't want them turning up on Google. I'll PM them later. There is some tedious typing for this bit, sorry. You each send friend requests from your new tag to the other person's normal tag then launch a quick game of CoD or summat (new gamertags come with 1 month of free Live Gold), one person with your new tag, one with their regular tag. File a complaint and repeat but the other way around. The upshot is each new tag receives a complaint from a normal user account.

I don't want to be one of the people as I don't want any special treatment in Xbox HQ about this. Hence also why I think the complaint should come from a game.

I think both new tags will have to change their names once the complaints are processed, as I think MS are rubber stamping the complaints. Alternatively, neither will have to change, which proves MS are not handling complaints properly. Either way I get ammo. The worst scenario is they get it right and only change the offensive tag, in which case WE FAIL.

Is anyone else up for this with myoptika? I won't lie, it is a bit of fucking around, but I hope this will be worthwhile.

I believe you need more than 1 complain before it takes effect?
Ergo, pm around the username's (once they're done) and we can all use our live accounts to join a game/get complaining?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Pod wrote:

I believe you need more than 1 complain before it takes effect?
Ergo, pm around the username's (once they're done) and we can all use our live accounts to join a game/get complaining?

Apparantly not. MS's policy is that when the reviewer sees the complaint they have no visibility of who complained or how many complaints were made -- just that there was a complaint.

I only had one complaint about my tag unless there was a second from a random internet person.

Pod · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2568

Did someone you know complain about the Gaywood one then?

I'ma little confused as to how all this "went down".

edit:
Some links for your enjoyment.

blatently offensive names:
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/prof ... raight+man
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/prof ... merTag=gay
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/prof ... g=straight

blatently offensive petitions:
http://www.petitiononline.com/GAYWOOD/petition.html

I wonder who the hell starts these petitions? Or indeed complains about Gaywood.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Pod wrote:

blatently offensive petitions:
http://www.petitiononline.com/GAYWOOD/petition.html

Fabulous. That has apparently been signed by Gaytits McBonky.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

So, myop/CUS, any activity on your new tags?

myp · **Posted:** Fri May 23, 2008 23:38

Nothing. I signed in earlier today and it was working fine.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

jonarob wrote:

This is skirting on cliquey.

what is?

myp · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2008 0:08

Jonarob's sad because he no longer gets the time to read any of these threads, so ends up presuming that everything's cliquey because he doesn't understand them.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2008 0:09

Or possibly he just can't understand your Somalian Brogue.

myp · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2008 0:26

My Somalian brogue smells of book.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2008 3:49

I agree with Myoptika.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

I agree with CUS

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat May 24, 2008 11:03

No, you're a lemon.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

You got a predictable response on SA where the consensus was you're an idiot for not changing the name and you deserve it.

Cunts.

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