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On May 19 2010 15:57 DeCoup wrote:
I agree that blizzard should have the power to prevent players using offensive names. But I honestly think banning is the wrong approach. Especially when this game goes live, because offensive can at some level be subjective. Personally I think it would be much better if Blizzard renamed offensive names. If someone called themselves AssFace and that is deemed offensive then blizzard should be able to rename it to PassFace or LastPlace or whatever they want. This would (a) be a less autocratic approach, (b) let blizzard show a bit of homor, (c) mock offensive players a little as reminder of what they have done, in a form they can not easily remove/forget because they are stuck with it.
Throw a $10 fee for name changes on top so they have the option to pay to fix it and they will be grateful that they are not stuck with it, and blizzard will make money instead of loose customers via ban.
So they can fix the problem. Humilate the offender. AND make money of it......
GENIUS!!!!
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I once sent an army of thors into a guys base and he was like,
"omg its like !@#$formers
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why is that censored?"
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Transformers and i guess trans was censored because transsexuals???? Kinda random tho
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On May 19 2010 16:46 sluggaslamoo wrote:
I once sent an army of thors into a guys base and he was like,
"omg its like !@#$formers
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why is that censored?"
"trans" is cencored. luckily you can turn off that stupid shit.
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What kind of person makes a connection like that?
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Blizzard 
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I find "Dopeman" to be highly offensive.
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Don't use drug related names then, stupid
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they are taking it too far, that is certain.
This is pretty surprising actually
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On May 19 2010 13:57 Subversion wrote:
That's a pretty weak argument. Speed, Jay and Park all have a lot of ambiguity, and noone would ever immediately make the reference to traffic violations. "Dope" is pretty straightforward.
Also, there's a big difference between a traffic violation and a serious criminal offence. Noone ever got jailtime from double-parking.
I should mention that I really couldn't give a damn what people call themselves, I wouldn't find it offensive at all. But there are plenty of people out there who are petty and would complain, so Blizzard has to cover that. All I'm saying is that's easy to understand, and to try and get on a high horse about "alcohol is worse than weed bro" is just really, really dumb and completely besides the point.
So, now the criterion is whether you get jailtime for something or not? It is pretty weak, you know.
Let us consider SpeedMan...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
Seriously - you would think speed is a word showing how fast something happens. Also, if you are thinking about traffic, you may think speeding is traffic violation.
If you don't know that it is also an euphemism for amphetamine, you will not be offended.
If you know it, and are not oversensitive, you will not be offended, because speed also means all those other things. Why would you think it has to mean amphetamine?
"Dope" also means secret information.
This filtering/id censorship system becomes a bullshit system as soon as it starts to interpret normal words. A kid who calls himself SpeedMan (because he does 6pool rush everytime) and doesn't know all the other meanings for "speed" may get banned and then he will definitely find out what it stands for. This id censorship system is just for show really...
p.s.
If you guys really want to be unique snowflakes in the id creation area, why not try another language? All they can really censor is English.
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it's not as offensive as one guy i played; his name was cumlord.
well, i didnt find it offensive, but blizz might.
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dope could mean like "good"
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On May 19 2010 15:03 Therapist wrote:
It seems like I was banned too for my name, this is ridiculus ...
Oh god the irony. THIS
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If this works as in World of Warcraft, this is based on delation.
There is no social things in this game (no channel, no ums), so it's someone you played in ladder. Maybe an angry loser 
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Interested if names like CryMore are about to be banned.
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On May 19 2010 15:03 Therapist wrote:
It seems like I was banned too for my name, this is ridiculus ...
LOL ! It's not offensive at all as long as you don't put a cap on the 'R', but the filters on bnet are stupid, I doubt they would care about caps.
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imho the action blizzard took was highly inappropriate. at least more so than your name was anyway.
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Even if Dopeman wasn't a fairly ambiguous name this would be way too severe and unjustified a punishment. A warning + required name change should come first. If this happens at retail, Blizzard is going to get a lot of angry phone calls.
This reminds me of being automatically kicked from CS servers because my name has "ass" in it. Yay for bad coding.
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in live b.net you'll get to change inappropriate names probably
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EPT
