Comments on: Microsoft Explains “Gaywood” Ban

By: chugs

chugs — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:07:07 +0000

only the americans seem to have this issue.

At several ISPs i've worked at you could setup mailboxes with practically any name, excluding fuck and cunt.

By: Paulus

Paulus — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:33:34 +0000

How’s about Virginia Scunthorpe? Look closely, people…

By: Petura

Petura — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:50:17 +0000

they are really ret.a.rded!!!

By: Petura

Petura — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:47:26 +0000

They are the REAL idiots.

By: Norfolk 'n' Idea

Norfolk 'n' Idea — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:11:15 +0000

Would i be able to register, I am also called Richard. With a surname of Head. But of course I like to use my shortened first name.

What are Mircosoft going to ban next 'Entrances to the Garden' e.g. Gates.

By: Zax

Zax — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:47:50 +0000

I bet “Eviscerator” would be fine as a tag though.

By: Rozza

Rozza — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:32:26 +0000

What where his parents thinking!
Dick Gaywood?

He must have had such a fun childhood

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:27:31 +0000

I guess p0rn stars won’t be using their real names as gamer tags, no Buck Nekkid or Dixie Normus around these parts

By: oz

oz — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:24:33 +0000

Along similar lines (to show that this is really nothing new from MS), I have a friend whose has "nazi" as the last four letters of her surname.

She is unable to register a hotmail account using her name because of this.

This is what occurs when you have rules in place that do not discriminate valid uses of words (or simple chains of letters)

By: Dick Happytree

Dick Happytree — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:37:08 +0000

At the risk of sounding xenophobic, that’s what happens when the majority of people on your network belong to a country that’s 40% evangelical christian, who find almost anything and everything offensive. It only took a single complaint, that’s what I find offensive.