Have you been banned for your name?

You still on about the EULA? We all know the people who are offended and use the /report feature are the ones ruining it for everyone...ANet has given the power to the fussy people who are playing with their church group. If it were the "sole discretion of ANet" there would be no /report feature and the names would likely, then, be overlooked and allowed to stay...especially something as mild as "Cleavage", which, by the way, is an excellent name for an axe warrior considering the meaning: a cleaving, splitting, or dividing. Most dictionaries have several definitions before: the hollow between a woman's breasts, as made visible by a low-cut neckline, which I cannot, for the life of me, figure out HOW that is offensive in and of itself.

Once again you are missing the fact that ANet does not find it offensive. "Sole discretion" implies they, alone are finding names offensive, yet, THEY do not think it is inapropriate...it is the person who typed /report and brought it to their attention who thought this, acted on it and brought it to ANet's attention as something that person saw as offensive. ANet, then, sumarily banned the name (most likely with no real consideration as to wether or not the general population would find it vulgar).

Hiding behind the rules, even when you bold them, does not excuse you from your civic duty to question authority when you beleive authority if being abused or given to the wrong people...in this case, the wrong people are typing /"report"

-Misella Landica

I actually pulled it from betwixt my asscheeks kind sir! LOL...Did I actually accuse them of not reviewing reports, or did I suggest they did not give consideration to what the general public would find offensive? The words you are attempting to put in my mouth are bitter...quite bitter. And I find it funny that you are going on about them not having 3 million people to monitor the game...blah, blah, blah...you're right, they have over 5 million who can do it for free through the /report feature...How many people do you suppose actually review those /reports?

Perhaps you should get it in your head (not through...I'd like to see it stick there) that the /report feature instigates the ban and in all likelihood, there are only one or two people so overworked at the thousands of /reports over light humor that they take minimal time to review each without credulity as to the validity of claims of scurrility.

-Misella Landica

edited for subject/verb agreement...I hate it when they argue

Wow, you just took my sentence and modified the syntax from "accuse" to "suggest," and "not reviewing" to "did not give consideration..." semantics are exactly the same.

I am not disputing that a report can lead to a ban. I'm disputing that most reports lead to bans (The main argument behind too much power in too few conservatives.). Where is your data to support your claim? Right now, you have names that were banned. Do you also have the list of names that were allowed through?

And now you're saying that they're overworked. I'd like to point out that hunting down and verifying massively differ in man hours. Additionally, do you actually know how many reports are made to support your claim that the verifiers being overworked?

WTS tin foil hat!

I probbaly could have gotten 72 hours for
Imma Pwnstar. I still have the armor for it. But I deleted it.

Surprised to see the victory token quest vs the Yeti man saying that he didn't want to face the 'buggers' on his own, and yet cleavage is not allowed. Buggery but not boobs? Bah!

Well I think 'bugger' isn't all that common in America (where I assume Anet's based), so they probably don't think it's offensive. Clevage, however, is everywhere.

Very true, Tatile.

And this is my new catchphrase in life:

In the middle of playing Dragon Arena last night, my teammate got banned for the name "Big Lip Nigersaurus"

...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigersaurus

Just look at it! :O

Yes. However with the "Big Lip" part in there everyone with even an iota of an IQ know exactly what your friend was trying to do with his name.

Typical stereotyped racism.

Hiding behind an actual item with a name similar to the intended target.

Even if on the astronomical chance that your friend was actually trying to be a dinosaur named player. Why did he bother with "Big Lip"?

It's on par with "Master Baiter". We all know what it implies, but what if the player is a champion fisherman? Doesn't matter. It's not appropriate.

I'd say most banned names are probably funny. The bar for getting banned by Anet appears to be rather low, which leads to an unfortunate fact: Creating a funny name can easily give emotionally immature, frigid, or simply uncaring players a weapon to use against you through the /report command.

My (main) character's name is "Aina Galamarth". It has no worth whatsoever; to use a cliche, it's boilerplate fantasy drivel. So are the vast majority of names in Guild Wars; they've got no purpose but to be worthless garbage nobody will remember with no purpose other then to clutter the game with meaningless letter combinations which are often unpronounceable.

I have a friend with a slew of supremely funny character names which not only fit in the standard fantasy archetype (at first glance) but also contain ingenious puns based off stereotypes of their respective classes. That took effort, and I respect him for making it. One of his names was reported (it's borderline, but not explicit or "potty humor" by any means) but, fortunately, no ban.

Frankly, I wish I'd gone to the trouble of writing something neat with my character name. While I can see the reasoning behind reporting "4chan" style humor, most of the stuff I've seen in this thread really isn't that bad (most of it isn't all that funny, either, but it's better then Garfield..) Anyone trying to pointlessly destroy a good joke just needs a therapist or a day away from Guild Wars and in the sunshine.

got 3 day ban for..."Sausage P A R T Y" and "Tigg As Bitties" and "Lets Keep It Hetero". i think someone reported me then they checked my whole account character names and gave me a day ban for each name. official word from anet was that i got banned for the first two names. but i think they just didnt want to say i got banned for lets keep it hetero because lets face it, only gays would get offended by that. and anet doesnt want to state they are gay. lol im just kidding anet, dont delete my account.

Perhaps you should take a course in the study of semantics: meaning in words. Suggestions and accusations, by no means convey the same meaning. As for reviewing vs. considering, you would also be wrong... especially in the context of the original post. "not reviewing" would be an absolute, whereas not giving consideration, in its original context suggests review occurred, but without great thought to social norms. To quote myself:

"ANet, then, sumarily banned the name (most likely with no real consideration as to wether or not the general population would find it vulgar)."

I did NOT say, in an absolute, that ANet did not review the /reports, just that they likely did not consider, in any great depth, that the names, though off-color, would be considered offensive to the general population...supporting previous statements of mine that ANet caves in to the vocal minority through the /report feature.


Do you have any evidence to support the opposite claim? Why deal in absolutes when there is no evidence to support your position and then suggest I need the same evidence you lack? As many of us know/suspect, ANet is pretty tight-lipped in its sharing of information, especially when it comes to the inner workings of why and how they do anything.

Do you? I was responding to your suggestion that:

"...ANet introduced the report feature because it is not feasible to have 3 million people on their payroll to monitor the game on a daily basis (even on weekends and holidays!)."

If it takes 3 million to monitor the game daily, including weekends and holidays, I would assume that there would be a great need for reviewers given your suggestion that a ratio of 3/5 exists in needed monitors vs. number of accounts. I actually have no clue how many people it takes to run the "/report review division", but given the relative perceived proportion of GW to GW2 workers, I made an assumption that there were few people actually spending time in the review process.

It would be interesting to see how many /reports are sent out each day, the number of people reviewing them and how much time is allocated to this task...I sincerely doubt ANet would ever release these numbers, so all information about it is relegated to speculation at best.

It is, I think, reasonable to assume, that there is not a supreme counsel of arbitrators sitting around a table discussing the social relavence of each and every name...I stand by my supposition that the number of people dedicated to this task is few and that, though the number of /reports is unknown that if even .001% of the accounts made one report in a week (assume they work 5 days a week, 8 hours a day) that would leave about 1000 reports to review each day...slightly over 2 to review each minute for a single employee without breaks...125 per hour...I'm not saying those are the numbers, but any way I look at it, it seems a daunting task. I have no idea how many people are doing the work, but it seems to me that unless there are several of them, there is little time to seriously consider every name thoughtfully, especially when there are so many other reasons people send /reports.

If you beleive that fewer than one in 1000 people send at least one /report per week or that ANet has a dozen or more employees whose sole purpose is to review /reports...then I can see how you might believe the /report system is fair and impartial and that every person who has had a questionable name has had their name fairly reviewed.

I can see why you might have an extra.

-Misella Landica

I got banned for running around with 'snape kills dumbledore' or something like that (wasn't spelt right with some letters missed etc) running around major citys on highly populated districts shouting it. haha, I love being a pain in the ass :3

Reported for spoilers.

Yea, this will probably get locked, but I've been waiting for it to happen for several months now and felt like sharing it:



I guess I should have deleted him back when they started banning offensive names, but I wanted my mini pet so I left him alone. Then I get my minipet, and during the session that this screenshot occoured, I still wasnt reported. Everyone ingame that I knew loved the name, that isnt an excuse I know, but back when I made the character a year ago, they werent giving out 7 day bans for offensive names so I felt like making this character.

Then today, people in RA American dist 1 were fooling around reporting everyone for everything and anything, so I logged onto Dixie just to get reported on purpose.

Woo hooo! They finally got me, but 7 days ....

Meh, life goes on.

haha OUCH!

........what was the pet?

You really need a hobby....

I got banned for having Sadist in my name.

[sadist's signet]

Natural selection. You were just BEGGING to get reported by entering RA and saying that.

You've got to be *Red Engine*-ing kidding me.

Probably didn't get banned because of that whole 22 hours of people having the chance to see your name

That said, logging on in order to get reported? That's just....odd?

I didnt ask anyone to report me, I just turned up where everyone was typing crazy stuff about reporting anything and everything, so I swapped character and started typing.

I got a mini hydra which is safely already in my HoM. I have 14 minis in total now.

Im not bothered about losing the character now and didnt mind getting reported, but 167 hours ....

lol.

It wasnt really on purpose, like I said people were having fun throwing reports everywhere so I logged in to see what would happen.

And ban

my dixie normous is offending?

"Brawling Headbutt" still cuts the cake.

Seeing as it's sounded as "my dick's enormous", I'd say yes.

Try reading it a little more carefully.

Never mind, Bryant got it.

that is the best name ive seen in a long time.

Oh, I was also banned over the weekend for telling someone NOT to use the N word, but because I typed it out, I had a 3 day ban for use of a racial slur, so no dragon festival for me either.

That is maybe why it is 7 days.

Yea, I dont really give a crap about this game anymore and arent bothered.

Lets see I have been banned for:

muffy the Diver

Carpit Muncher

And Muf dvr

sure there was a theme but still i thought Muffy the Diver was pretty good. People get sensitive when you beat them in PvP.

Muffy the Diver isnt even offensive unless you actually have a rude / mature mind. A 12 year old for example probably wouldnt even know what it is.

lol, okay, but hey, if you want to shout to the world regarding your assets ... i have no problem.

So what's your point?

People aren't putting up with that kind of garbage and A-Net's doing their job. Works for me!

I think instances like that become a problem when he asks his parents what they mean.

"Mom, what's a guy who dives for muffs?"

"..."

You've got to be kidding me.

Innocent learning in such a way is better than such young, innocent children being directly exposed to the answer!

Maybe.

Here is another thing. Who the hell SELLS crap in RA? <_<

i got banned for this IGN Your Moms Wife.... thats not so worse is it..

What kind of perverted mind one has to have to mutilate words into something offensive?

My Dixie Normus

I didn't know what "Dixie" actually was, but Dictionary says that it's "a large iron pot, esp. a 12-gallon camp kettle used by the British Army."

Yes very offensive indeed! So they ban for anything now?

How the hell is 'Your Moms Wife' offensive?

Banning that name is offensive to lesbians.

(I never knew this thread existed o.O)

Seems like most people get banned in the Arenas or AB. A guildmate was banned tfor a PVP mesmer amed Surprise ButtSexx.

Other seem to get banned when in all chat in large outposts.

My point being, if you want to make a tricky name to share with friends ad the like, you can do it and stay low on the radar. Running into AB or RA with "Bangsa Hoe" or "Dell's Peckers" is just asking for a ban.

As someone else stated, I have stock names for my toons, all fantasy tripe type stuff. so I guess I am just boring.

I got banned for an ele named Big O Boobies.

Not that I didn't deserve it or anything.

i logged onto a storage account and found that the storage toon called Short Nagger...who looked like my wife...only shorter...was reported as offensive. Oh well...unlike in real life, I just pushed the delete button and got rid of her. Felt strangely relaxing actually.... like a burden had been lifted.