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It isn't like some person at Microsoft went and hunted down this guy. They undoubtedly designed a program that looked for certain letter combinations and automatically disabled their account in order to prevent people from having names such as gaybuttsexx. He is simply the unfortunate victim of an automatic program. People don't want to manually search through millions of user names looking for ones which violate TOS. This was not a personal attack by Microsoft on this individual, as it seems so many want to believe.
 

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did u prefer this:

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That's WAY worse: in fact, it's a crime punishable with jail time, i believe!

It isn't like some person at Microsoft went and hunted down this guy. They undoubtedly designed a program that looked for certain letter combinations and automatically disabled their account in order to prevent people from having names such as gaybuttsexx. He is simply the unfortunate victim of an automatic program. People don't want to manually search through millions of user names looking for ones which violate TOS. This was not a personal attack by Microsoft on this individual, as it seems so many want to believe.

I have to agree with this: +1
 
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Why not use his real name? I also use my real name in games, I hate nick names like [CLAN, Team]CaP5 NiCkNaMe - ThE B3sT PlAyA etc.

Right with you on this.... Now if there was some offense term being used there, well then I can see an issue I guess.... But seriously this is the guys real name, so I guess he should be arrested too?!?!?!
 

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Unfortunate situation, I can certainly see why MS has to control usernames.

This poor guy has probably taken sh*t his whole life for his name, so I feel badly for him as well.
 

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LIVE Code of Conduct said:
Don't give out information that personally identifies you (such as your real name, address, phone number, credit card number, etc.) while you're playing. This includes voice chat and the names you create for your gamertag or mottos. This information could be used by other players for illegal or harmful purposes. Also, don't give out the personal information of other players.

If he'd of read the Code of Conduct before creating his account with his real name in it, then he would have noticed the excerpt above. I understand that some people aren't creative enough to form a unique gamertag, and therefore default to their name, but it's not that hard. This is for security purposes, not to discipline those who are less creative. There are always going to be issues like this with many filter systems, so I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon and start cursing at MS, as much as I like or dislike them. The issue can be resolved within a few minutes (assuming the player can create something that fits into the Code of Conduct) and everyone can be happy again. I don't see this being a big issue at all, just got blown out of proportion.
 
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If ya wanna use ya name so be it yeah i understand ya get some really stoopid names and the "someone think of the childeren crowd" gets there knickers in a twist but so what he uses gay in his username oh no lol.
 
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gaywood... hehehehe :D
 
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He got banned, he will stay banned, he will make a new account and learn from his selfcaused mistake. He breached the code of conduct and was banned, his lucky not to be sued.
Its an unfortunate incident that could have been avoided by Mr Gaywood whom most likely was aware of what was going to occur prior to signing up.

I think its very important that everyone uses a unique ' nickname ' that doesnt breach the code of conduct and avoids using real names for too many reasons to list, but most importantly because now MS know where Mr Gaywood live! Mwahahahaha!

Beware of the men in black suits with the windows logo on the buttons.
 
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The only reason MS bans names with words like GAY and COON in them is because they are afraid of being sued. Liberals in this country have given lawyers and judges tooooo much power. You can sue anybody for anything here. Thanks to liberalism, censorship is quite necessary.


He was not banned from XBL, just forced to change his name for free. Not the end of the world.
You know, I really hate to feed the obvious troll that you are -- I think you say the "L"-word (liberal) in like 90% of your posts here -- but how the hell do you say this stuff with a straight face? Is there like a troll academy somewhere where you go to learn how to do it?

(Are you not even aware that it's the current CONSERVATIVE government in the US right now that's responsible for some of the worst censorship ever: the abuse of the "National Security letter", which censors people and prevents them from even talking about it?)

Please, for the love of all things good and holy, stop bringing your flamewar-worthy political views here to TechPowerUp, which is supposed to be a board focused on technology.

Stop blaming everything on "liberals" -- FFS, look up the meaning of the goddamn word, and you'll see how foolish you've been in using it to describe people who censor. By the very nature of the word, a "liberal" is one who wouldn't censor, and a "conservative" is a person who would.

Mods, please wake up and send a damn PM to this guy or something. The random political-themed post here and there is okay, but this guy seems to make a habit of linking every damn thing to either the American Democratic party, "liberals," Communism, or (as you can see from his sig) Barack Obama.
 

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The only reason MS bans names with words like GAY and COON in them is because they are afraid of being sued. Liberals in this country have given lawyers and judges tooooo much power. You can sue anybody for anything here. Thanks to liberalism, censorship is quite necessary.


He was not banned from XBL, just forced to change his name for free. Not the end of the world.

look up the facts, its not librals who get bent over words like gay, its "social concervitives" those people in the red states that want to make laws to bann gays from getting marryed, or to outlaw being gay period.

I live in what you....well anybody would call a libral state, and its extreamly rare that anybody here sues over "gay" or "lesbian" or the like, hell here the words are JUST WORDS, you use them in plublic and unless your using them to try and attack somebody NOBODY GIVES A SHIT, on the other hand people do get upset about racial terms that are fully acceptable in the redstates/south.

if you call comebody a coon,nignog,jigabu(thanks clerks2 for that list in that order) or the n word, or terms for mexican like wetback, spic or on and on and on, or for any race other then white(they can make fun of us whites all they like and nobody gets offended.....) your gonna get ur arse reamed by people.

good example, i was on the buss one day with a bunch of friends, i was the ONLY one there who was white, they had spent the whole ride(over 45min) cracking jokes about crackers and shit, comparing me to kernal sanders, a chick with a huge ass walks by(rest of her was small but huge HUGE ass) my mexican buddy says something.....off colour, effectivly "back that ass up and let me...it" i called him a dirty mexican, driver slamed on the breaks, tells me to get the fuck off the buss for being a racist, all 8 of us got off the buss sicne we where out to go see some new movie(moves are alwase better with friends!!!) she was shocked we ALL got off, well it was only like 1.5 blocks to the buss station, by the time we got there the security guard was out waiting for us, he started to tell me i was getting a 6 month bann from the buss, my buddys steped in, informed him they wanted complain forms for HER racisim, in the end, i didnt get in trouble, she got a 2 day suspention and was taken off the public routs(put on a short buss that payed less)

but that shows what its like here, nobody sues over it, but you will get reamed for saying that kinda stuff even if its jokingly, had i been like them, mexican, asian or black, i would have been able to say whatever i wanted, but im a big white guy, so i get dinged for it....

now your assertion that librals are to blame, well read what "concervitives" put into law, and how they react to things they dont like, they make laws to try and bann them, stupid but true, tho its ok if your in the south for whites to say shit to other races and do things that genraly would get you kicked out of places here.

the conservitive south/redstates make me sick, honestly.........

oh and b4 you imply it, no im not gay, but yes i have gay friends, and i have friends with ammusing names that would be banned from xbxlive, thankfully none of them are consol junkies, only one of them even owns a consol for gaming, and its a Wii to play with his wife and kids.
 

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This story comes to prove what can happen if your name does not fit the standards. Last night, a British gamer was banned from the Xbox Live network, for registering with the RichardGaywood gamertag. From Microsoft's point of view nick names that violate the XBL policies are being removed immediately. You can't have a sexual term in you name. Yes, but what if the guy's last name is indeed Gaywood. His real full name is Richard Michael Gaywood. Do we have to change our real names so we can register and get permitted to access what we have paid for.



Source: Kotaku

what no props for forwording this ammusing yet sad story :D
 

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Do you know what the word "gay" meant before being linked with homosexuality?

There are many names with the word "gay" in them: Marcia Gay Harden, Lisa Gay Hamilton, John Gay, ... i could go on ...

In Portuguese, the word "bicha" started to be linked to homosexuality as well and now another word is used instead but, actually, means something else:

"Esperar na bicha" means "To wait in line" in Portuguese!

is that like "to wait in line for buttsecks" :p
 

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shouldn't they be getting rid of sexual predators instead of trying to get rid of the word "gay" on an 18+ age network?
 
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I coudnt agree more panch get ya priorities right ms
 
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Well actually if you look a little more into the topic ms asked for him to change his username. He wasn't actually banned. On top of that he was banned because of a user complaint. Blame the people that are easy to offend :p
 

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shouldn't they be getting rid of sexual predators instead of trying to get rid of the word "gay" on an 18+ age network?

no, because the conservitive right is offended by words like gay, lesbian, free speech, abortion, freedom of religion, darwin, evolution, alah, buda, magic, wizard.....

i could go on and on about the stuff you see them rally against, funniest to me was when they attacked the harry potter books because they talk about magic and wizards.......ok it gave me lulz to no end listening to a couple of my mothers conservitive friends from church go on and on about it.....they never read the books ofcorse, they just went by what they heard or read......

really all factions in this world suck, religious, political, hardware, software, sexual......again could go on and on.

you would think that ms could find better things to do with their time, maby track down hackers and abusive pricks in xbxlive, maby fix vista, maby work on windows 7!!!!
once again, the list of things ms needs to work on can go on and on, and on and on and on, but insted they spend their time banning the gays...........lol
 
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Lol this is a joke of course, but...

I think MS should invest more money in a voice communication filter rather than a "stupid" name filter... I can easily deal with stupid names, its the annoying voice chat on xbox live that drives me nuts.

Lol just my 2 cents...
 

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Well actually if you look a little more into the topic ms asked for him to change his username. He wasn't actually banned. On top of that he was banned because of a user complaint. Blame the people that are easy to offend :p

i use to run a game server, when ppl would report names like that, i would tell them to grow up, if they kept it up, i would bann them, This was an MMO server for UO, and tho the community in UO is enlarge far more mature then most other communitys, u still at times get what i alwase think of as CS kiddies, people who like to cause drama and cant take anybody beeting them.

i would bet that if there really where complaints, it was people who got "gay bashed" (pwned by gaywood in game) that reported it just because they where pissed they died.
 

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Lol this is a joke of course, but...

I think MS should invest more money in a voice communication filter rather than a "stupid" name filter... I can easily deal with stupid names, its the annoying voice chat on xbox live that drives me nuts.

Lol just my 2 cents...

i have though for years that the world needs a fix for EUE's (end user errors) but i think we need quantium computers with AI like startrek puters have b4 we will see EUE's go away :p

if only the net had "stupid people filtering" sending them all to AOL chatrooms and forums and keeping them off the open internet..........god thats one thing i miss since AOL went open network, when it was 56k AOL tryed to keep you in their home network, it kept alot of stupid people off the global netz, god that was nice...........since they went open.....well alot of morons show up in games and on forums to cause people greif :(
 

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his name is dick gaywood.
seriously, wtf.
 

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his name is dick gaywood.
seriously, wtf.

i got friends with names like that, their pairents eather didnt think OR had a mean streek.....

james offinshoer, some places Jack is short for james(.....i dont get it but hey) and if you pronounce his name slitly wrong.......well u get it......

there are others but thats one of the worst since his mother alwase called him jack.....it got around at school and once we hit "that age" oh did he get alot of shit for it :p
 

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Umm i kinda agree stopping him registering with his name BUT same for everyone else what ever your name is. ( privacy reasons )

Like come on this 1st time this has happened lol ?.. You think it is for one second lol.
 

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XBOX live is for homos anyway. I still don't understand why people pay to play. If I want to play online, I play on my PC. I just wish we could have a cross platform game so the PCs could whoop consoles and their slow controls.

Anyone who argues that consolers are better than a mouse kb combo has probably never played on a PC and has no idea what they are missing OR they are overwhelmed by all the key possibilities. llamas!

here's a thought. Don't pay to play and give microsoft the power to control your gaming experience.

Wow you give a convincing argument, dont you have any friends to play with on the same screen............o ok then. also unless you are using wine you pretty much are using microsoft.
Not that i dont enjoy pc games, im loving sose.

also gta4 .............ill guess you'll just have to wait for that lovable mouse and keyboard combo. (i know its better so dont even bother)
 
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Wow you give a convincing argument, dont you have any friends to play with on the same screen............o ok then. also unless you are using wine you pretty much are using microsoft.
Not that i dont enjoy pc games, im loving sose.

also gta4 .............ill guess you'll just have to wait for that lovable mouse and keyboard combo. (i know its better so dont even bother)

Your arguement is no more convincing.

Both sides have vaild points. I happened to thank spacejunky simply because I agreed with a few of the points he made (not that everyone on xbox live is a homo).
 

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(Are you not even aware that it's the current CONSERVATIVE government in the US right now that's responsible for some of the worst censorship ever: the abuse of the "National Security letter", which censors people and prevents them from even talking about it?)

Thx for that!:toast:

Ironic that the US supposedly embraces "Freedom of Speech". You can burn a flag as an expression of this right but don't you dare say something that could possibly offend someone. Well, flag burning offends me, but yet I don't whine to the press or anyone else about it. People take them damn selves way too seriously these days and they should lighten the hell up. Whatever happened to the days when we laughed at ourselves? :rolleyes:
 
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