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May 21st, 2008 @ 10:41
According to this Kotaku piece, a UK gamer has had his GamerTag banned from Xbox Live because his name is Richard Gaywood. The GamerTag in question was the hugely inflammatory “RichardGaywood”.
This latest farce comes after a gay man had his GamerTag removed from the service for calling himself “thegayergamer”, a moniker that drew complaints from other “users”.
Microsoft, seriously. Please. Stop being so bloody stupid.
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May 21st, 2008 at 10:46 am
White middle America at its Bible-bashing finest!
May 21st, 2008 at 10:48 am
Insane.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
microsoft won’t be getting any more toast from me.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:57 am
I wonder if my Gears of War 2-themed new gamertag idea, I_like_it_up_the_Derrick will be banned too?
May 21st, 2008 at 10:57 am
Dick Gay Wood you say?
May 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
@Psychotext
It’s a really odd coincidence. I don’t doubt the guy, but still… lol
And so these are the modern times…
May 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
My mate from University went to school with a guy called Isaac Hunt.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:29 am
I went to the wedding of a ‘Mike Hunt’
May 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
So, any wor on if they banned TheStraighterGamer yet?
May 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
They said previously that they would. No sexual references allowed at all, apparently.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Someone tried to make TheHeterosexualGamer but it wouldn’t let them.
I don’t know why they don’t just put all these sorts of words in the banned filter and be done with it. Saves us from more people whining online about stuff we’d have just dealt with if we all weren’t given a a podium to bitch from.