It also blocks out "trans" as in when you say "transport". I was trying to talk to one of my friends the other day and said transport and it blocked it out hahaha.

cartoon]x

United States606 Posts

May 18 2010 22:10 GMT

#23

lmao. What a shitty system. You make a language filter that strict and NO ONE will use it. What's the point of it then?

Saturnize

United States2473 Posts

May 18 2010 22:13 GMT

#24

The old battle.net obviously banned cuss words in user names but this is a little extreme.

iloahz

United States964 Posts

May 18 2010 22:13 GMT

#25

marijuana is a legitimate form of medicine that cannot be replaced by any other. Well...

Neptuneajax

Australia206 Posts

May 18 2010 22:15 GMT

#26

While I do not support the ban for the player in regular circumstances, you guys have to remember that this is the Beta. It is Blizzard's Beta. I; you; we, are all privileged to be a part of it. And if Blizzard wish to implement inane bannings during the Beta, let them do so. I really hope this kind of over policing does not occur once the actual game is released however.

jamesr12

United States1549 Posts

May 18 2010 22:15 GMT

#27

it also filter the word "black" the filter is crazy turned it off after like 5 games

Kratisto

United States199 Posts

May 18 2010 22:16 GMT

#28

They should set up a system whereby you are allowed (read: forced) to change your Character name to something else, and if it happens a second time, they delete the character and its stats. Immaturity and stupid names on the internet needs to be tolerated seeing as... well... internet.

Shizuru~

Malaysia1676 Posts

May 18 2010 22:17 GMT

#29

my friend actually named one of his character in WoW "Blackdickk", after being the "Blackdickk" for 1 and a half months, only then a GM came to talk to him about his name being offensive and offer him a free name change, a name change in WoW cost something like 20 dollars i belief...

and ur "Dopeman" gets a perma account ban? hot damn the policy is tight in SC2...

Naib

Hungary4892 Posts

May 18 2010 22:17 GMT

#30

Maybe this teaches you to come up with something a bit more unique and creative on your next account,

Mostly people who complain about getting banned have these borderline offensive nicknames (like yours, but usually a bit more extreme I agree) or a retarded teenager joke.

Go cry me a fkin river when you're banned for that.

Mohdoo

United States15743 Posts

May 18 2010 22:18 GMT

#31

I just see this as Blizzard trying to un-4chan Bnet. I would definitely prefer to have a Bnet without people with names like "f4gstomper" and stuff like that.

cartoon]x

United States606 Posts

May 18 2010 22:20 GMT

#32

Most of blizzards fanbase smokes dope.

Zexion

Sweden971 Posts

May 18 2010 22:20 GMT

#33

If my nickname for SC2 was the same as the one I have here, I would be banned for the obvious sex reference!

eNtitY~

United States1293 Posts

May 18 2010 22:21 GMT

#34

How retarded...

QueueQueue

Canada1000 Posts

May 18 2010 22:24 GMT

#35

I don't smoke pot, but if someone chooses to have some name that loosely ties to that, who cares? I mean, pot abuse is less harmful than alcohol abuse, however, I'm sure someone with an alcohol related name would be left alone. To state that the name is offensive is just plain ignorant (unless of course, drugs such as alcohol, or caffeine are offensive to you as well). Ironically I'm sure a lot of people that claim it as "offensive" consume alcohol at least once in a while or at least accept that people around them do; which in its own is hypocritical.

I understand the argument about it being illegal being in violation of the TOS, however if they are going to take the approach that illegal things are inappropriate, enforce this policy on any name that has any sort of tie to illegal activity.

I also understand that blizzard does not want to step on people's toes on this subject. The average person is incredibly ignorant when it comes to understanding drugs; so people blindly associate illegal drugs with being really bad, while accepting things in our society that are significantly worse for us. But really, if they are going to be so strict about drug related names, change stim packs to something else >.<

Auronz

Brazil119 Posts

May 18 2010 22:25 GMT

#36

On May 19 2010 07:20 cartoon]x wrote:
Most of blizzards fanbase smokes dope.

That's very likely to be quite wrong. =p

rockon1215

United States612 Posts

May 18 2010 22:26 GMT

#37

My alt name is usually Gabe Uttsechs. Do you think that would be banned?

DragonDefonce

United States790 Posts

May 18 2010 22:28 GMT

#38

They won't ban id's like demuslim or people who are "openly gay and shows it in his name" because doing so would bring about a shitstorm to blizzard. Having family values group and the ACLU trying to screw you at the same time isn't fun. Banning references to drugs, on the other hand, gives them a good public rep, so they will be more prone to that. Although, considering the target demographic, it might not be too great of a policy...

SonKiE

United States167 Posts

May 18 2010 22:29 GMT

#39

legalize it