EPTBlizzard blocking name on SC2? - Page 2
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Kezzer
United States1268 Posts
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YoureFired
United States822 Posts
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Excalibur_Z
United States12244 Posts
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. That's not a name though. | ||
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roronoe
Canada1527 Posts
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. Yeah, totally. Try saying things like "transfer drones to your natural" or "watch your backdoor" or "they came into my base" and you can imagine what happens. Its not likey they're super offensive words or anything. | ||
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KingFool
Canada428 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9109 Posts
...got a big LOL R U SRS WTF the first time I figured that out. I mean really... | ||
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University
United States263 Posts
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. Wow I had no idea that was filtered. That is actually kind of offensive that Blizzard feels that needs to be censored. It seems to imply mention of transsexuals is similar to mention of cocaine, vulgar sexual slang, and common swear words. Ridiculous. | ||
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SoMuchBetter
Australia10606 Posts
On May 14 2010 10:47 Excalibur_Z wrote: Because Mr is a title. You can't use Lord or anything like that either. i cant even think of a reason for that one | ||
FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
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. xbox is filtered too | ||
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Isas
Canada45 Posts
Straight from Wikipedia: 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. Some examples: 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. See Wikipedia for more examples. Some of these errors can be quite problematic, but I find them very entertaining. I assume Blizzard is trying to keep the online game safe for younger players and the result is an over reactive censor. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
It's obvious! you don't see it xbox sexbox obv. | ||
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Marahumm
United States98 Posts
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arb
Noobville17922 Posts
On May 14 2010 11:18 MamiyaOtaru wrote: I couldn't use Wyoming as my identifier. Yellowstone worked fine. Are you serious? | ||
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
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numLoCK
Canada1416 Posts
I have a buddy who'll be very upset when he finds this out, he's been using the same aka for years. | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
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. i thought that was a joke at first... #$%# your drones! | ||
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Mrfred
United States44 Posts
On May 15 2010 15:52 numLoCK wrote: Can't use Mr in your name? That is absolutely ridiculous >.< I have a buddy who'll be very upset when he finds this out, he's been using the same aka for years. Yeah I have been using this one for years on various websites and servers, WC3 this is my name. Its really stupid. BTW whats his name? | ||
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:01 madnessman wrote: i thought that was a joke at first... #$%# your drones! Link? | ||
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
yeah. Can't figure out why. Does the name of my State contain within it some obscure slur? | ||
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