Blizzard blocking name on SC2? - Page 2

On May 14 2010 11:43 BDF92 wrote:
Wel,l mr could take part in the word "steamroll" which is a highly offensive term when explaining if you defeated someone.

On May 14 2010 11:39 Meta wrote:


Not to mention the word "backdoor" lol. I feel like they should know what some RTS language is before they decide to censor it.

On May 14 2010 10:44 Kennigit wrote:
Probably for the same reason you can't type "trans" into bnet chat lol? I feel like whoever is in charge of the filtering needs to get with the program.

On May 14 2010 10:47 Excalibur_Z wrote:


Because Mr is a title. You can't use Lord or anything like that either.

On May 14 2010 10:44 Kennigit wrote:
Probably for the same reason you can't type "trans" into bnet chat lol? I feel like whoever is in charge of the filtering needs to get with the program.

The Scunthorpe problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a string of letters that are shared by an obscene word. While computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, broad blocking rules will result in a false positive, causing innocent phrases to be blocked.

The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's dirty-word filter prevented residents from the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring cunt. Years later, Google's filters apparently made the same mistake, preventing residents from searching for local businesses that included Scunthorpe in their names.

Résumés of magna cum laude graduates have been blocked by spam filters due to inclusion of the word cum, which here is Latin for "with" but in English is sometimes used as slang for "semen".

In June 2008, a news site run by the American Family Association censored an Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay, replacing instances of "gay" with homosexual, thus rendering his name as "Tyson Homosexual".

In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its e-mail due to filters mistakenly deciding that its name was a version of the words horny man.

On May 15 2010 03:27 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:


xbox is filtered too

On May 14 2010 11:18 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
I couldn't use Wyoming as my identifier. Yellowstone worked fine.

On May 14 2010 11:18 oBlade wrote:
According to Mike Morhaime, you'll be able to unlock titles like Mr for your username with DLC esports microtransactions Web 2.0 net neutrality.

On May 15 2010 15:52 numLoCK wrote:
Can't use Mr in your name? That is absolutely ridiculous >.<
I have a buddy who'll be very upset when he finds this out, he's been using the same aka for years.

On May 15 2010 16:01 madnessman wrote:


i thought that was a joke at first... #$%# your drones!

On May 15 2010 09:27 arb wrote:

Are you serious?