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The popular custom map Nexus Word Wars has been banned from Battle.net for containing "inappropriate words." For those who are unfamiliar, the map spawns units with random dictionary words above them and players defend their team's nexus by typing the word to kill the unit.
Apparently, a map reviewer at Blizzard took offense at some of the 32000 dictionary words such as "dyke" which can refer to either a dam, a disruptive sheet of rock in geology, or a lesbian.
Original post from the author Rodrigo at http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/832103874:
+ Show Spoiler +Nexus Word Wars was banned from Battle.net, and I can't publish it again. Blizzard just sent me an email explaining why: Offense: Inappropriate Map published under this account was found to have contained  Inappropriate words above some mobs (ex: dyke) I didn't know what "dyke" means. I had to look up on the dictionary (It's when a woman loves another woman). Blizzard, please, tell me what words were inappropriate because the game has a 32,000 words database and I can't just look up all those 32 thousand words on the dictionary. Also, can you please let me publish Nexus Word Wars again with the same popularity? Thank you.
It's a real shame. I loved this map.
edit: Update -- Bashiok responds
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/832103874?page=4#74
+ Show Spoiler +Hey Rodrigo, thanks for posting. We're actually in the process of investigating the ban already; it looks like you also contacted our support department about it, which was the right move. Someone will be contacting you soon regarding the issue. I wanted to point out though that the reports we received for the words included in the map’s dictionary were fairly vast, and clearly offensive in most cases. The one quoted in the reason for the ban was the least offensive. In any case, please wait for the customer service contact and they’ll work with you on republishing and any changes we’d require. On that note, forum posts aren’t the right place to dispute a ban. We want to make sure that anyone looking to do so please use the correct forms of contact so we can address any requests as quickly as possible. The support web form is the correct place: http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml
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What the fuck...
That was the best custom game ever to warm up....
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Blizzard is full of dykes.
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you know what i don't want a ban for this, so it's going in spoilers...
+ Show Spoiler +i bet the reviewer was a woman..
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I was wondering what happened to this map...  (((
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The fucking game contains a language filter.. ugh I must have brought this up a few times since the map editor was released, we should be able to use any word we want in a game, and users have the option of turning on the language filter, just have the language filter parse the game strings this would be SIMPLE for them to implement.
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Lol.........
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Reminds me of why I don't dev for Apple Apps store.
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You should have used dike instead of dyke.
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That is beyond ridiculous, the word is only offensive if you mean it that way. If they were using dictionary words then why would anybody take offense to that. I find it beyond stupid -_-
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Yeah this seems a little extreme for Blizzard. Is dyke the only inappropriate word used or was that just an example of many? If it's the only one that just makes it worse because its pretty common knowledge that it means bridge :/
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Hey I know what, let's take dictionaries out of schools because kids might look up naughty words. If the above statement makes sense to you, than you might just work for blizzard.
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I love this game ._. one of the good ums out atm. Was so disappointed when I couldn't find it on bnet anymore.
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So this person didn't even know what dyke was before they looked it up.
Thats so stupid.
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Part of me really wants to believe there is more to this.
It's f'king Nexus Wars...One of the most played maps on B.Net...what in the world goes on in those offices at Blizzard, anyone who actually plays this game would realize how bad of an idea this was.
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On October 13 2010 08:57 Astro Boy wrote:
So this person didn't even know what dyke was before they looked it up.
Thats so stupid.
Clearly. Everyone who does not speak English is a moron!!111!
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Blizzard going anderson cooper brah! this is really terrible from blizzard
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Instead, Blizzard features boring-as-hell maps like that lava money map. Ugh.
Pretty much every noun can have an 'offensive' (to someone anyway) connotation, it's nonsense to go all OMG OMG NO YOU DIDN'T! about this. It's a word. Grow up, map reviewer person.
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