"Gay" Player Name Banned By Xbox Live

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My question is, so what?

Seems black and white too me. You can whinge and moan about how things are unfair and how microsoft are unfair and bias but its not going to change anything. It is there software, they set the rules.. If you don't like it, tough.

He was asking for trouble creating a name like that and he knows it, attention seeking ******. THEN he went to the media. Actually talking about it in this thread is giving him what he wants.

'shudder' oh the stupidity...

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So Microsoft hates gay people? Is that what they mean to say again here? Brilliant.

My god, some people are just so thick headed. No, microsoft doesn't hate gay people. They are simply banning an account that's accumulated a large amount of negative feedback. Microsoft, like any corporation, isn't in the practice of "hating" their paying customers, quite the opposite. This guy was trying to stick his sexuality in everyone's face with his name (and going by how he handled this i can only imagine the crap coming out of his mouth in-game), people complained and Microsoft acted. Stop acting like this is some political issue, gay or straight doesn't matter. This is about protecting the xbox live community as a whole.

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So, you would rather them ignore their community?

It depends on the definition of community.

If the community you refer to can even be partially defined as those (lets say approximately) 50% of the other "gamers" (in quotes because in their case I use the term lightly) that I encounter way more than I prefer on Live while playing MP games then I would have to say Yes. This is the same people that constantly spew truly despicable racial hatred and racially inspired derogatory terms, and/or the same people who posses an overall general lack of respect towards others (and as a result themselves), then again, the answer to your question is a resounding Yes... In fact I would rather MS ignore the community on most everything, never-mind this.

And let me state since I know this comment has the potential to raise hell, that I have indeed met some very cool individuals while playing on Live. As I said above the experience is usually a 50-50 one. However if I had to sum up my overall Live experience, unfortunately due to the nature of the negatives I do experience, those negatives cannot help but overpower the positives.

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He says he spends "a lot of time muting people on Halo3" due to his name. Then he says "I hope I'm not the only person who finds this don't ask, don't tell policy disgusting", trying to make this into a civil rights issue. :rolleyes:

The fact is, among kids (my own included), the term "gay" is used as a derogatory comment. Not even necessarily associated with homosexuality. Things like "that movie sounds so gay [boring, dull]", or "playing tag is so gay [geared toward little kids, not teenagers]".

They would remove obviously offending terms, such as "the N word". And, if this guy is muting a lot of people because of harassment from the name, well, it obviously is becoming an issue.

He is free to change his name to "DethKi77erRox" or "PrancingUnicorns" or whatever, and keep on playing. :yes:

LOL, the homosexual community made it a point to hijack words in their pushing "rights" issue. I really am glad society has comeback with using the word gay to mean something derogatory. Gay meant "happy" "jolly" cira 1930, Gay became "homosexual" cira 1990's, and now cira 2005 on, "lame" "boring" "wrong" "stupid". I believe it's everyone's right to choose what and whom they have sex with. I do not support the homosexual agenda.

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Within their rights, Microsoft, they did the right thing.

Firstly going outa ya way to express ya sexuality in a nickname is stupid, especially in a wider community. THe legal team did the right thing here, being that if the kid got abused and harassed, MS would and could be implemented also and be sued for not acting in The Duty Of Care towards the gamer.

One point though, why go out with a nickname expressing ones sexuality? Me, i have never seen a gamer tag, or even a forums login such as 'hetrohumpergamer'

Its passe' and stupid to do, IMHO and prob by the majority of the community.

Being gay or straight is fine, but to be blatant about expressing ya sexuality can have reprocussions no matter what side of the table you sit on.

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Within their rights, Microsoft, they did the right thing.

Firstly going outa ya way to express ya sexuality in a nickname is stupid, especially in a wider community. THe legal team did the right thing here, being that if the kid got abused and harassed, MS would and could be implemented also and be sued for not acting in The Duty Of Care towards the gamer.

One point though, why go out with a nickname expressing ones sexuality? Me, i have never seen a gamer tag, or even a forums login such as 'hetrohumpergamer'

Its passe' and stupid to do, IMHO and prob by the majority of the community.

Being gay or straight is fine, but to be blatant about expressing ya sexuality can have reprocussions no matter what side of the table you sit on.

Massive QFT

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Can't he just argue that he used gay as its original meaning, 'happy'?

Not exactly as meanings change over time. Honestly, I don't understand the idea some people have that words will continue to have the exact same meaning down the road. There is no "set in stone" definition. If history could teach us anything, it's that our languages evolve over time as new words are introduced and old words no longer hold their meaning for whatever reasons.

The word "gay" has seemed to be turned into an offensive term used to insult someone or simply describe something as bad. Hell, even a couple gay/lesbian people I know use the word in the very same manner.

Overall though, I think the whole thing is pretty stupid. It's not hurting anyone at all. Let him keep his damn name. Seriously, is anyone going to end their subscription because someone has that username?

Though, if he can't have it, he should have fun with creating his new name. "ilikemen" "boys4me" "fruitycake" "secksmyhole" "rainbowcrotch" "stevejobs" "bjobs4u" etc.

The possibilities are endless! :woot:

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Meh, if you ask me MS are right, and I hope they continue to crack down on other attention seeking names.

I hate it when people whine about abuse and they run about with names like, "AZIANGAMER", "I'MBLACK", "I'MGAY", "GOTHS4FTW", ect.

Abuse isn't justifiable, but if you have common sense you'll understand it's not possible to completely eradicate it, and if you run around with attention seeking names, you'll be a far larger target on the abusers horizon.

Just use a "normal" name god damnit. Yeah "normal" names can easily be abused as well, but don't erect a huge flag above your head reigning your social status/skin colour/beliefs and then expect griefers NOT to mess about with you, more than they will "JoeGamer14".

Unfortunately the online world is full of explotation and abuse, adopt to adapt with it, it's the best we can do right now to get through some of the crap (Y)

Attention seeking cry-babies whining about abusive gamers - All of them should just be banned, end of.

ps. I'm not mixing up attention seeking names, and humorous names - I get a good chuckle out of some names that don't really cause any harm (Like McStabbyStabStab the rogue on WoW - Attention seeking for lol's, but not abusive to anyone). I wouldn't adopt a daft name, full stop, but I'm not saying eradicate every funny name as well.

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Meh, if you ask me MS are right, and I hope they continue to crack down on other attention seeking names.

I hate it when people whine about abuse and they run about with names like, "AZIANGAMER", "I'MBLACK", "I'MGAY", "GOTHS4FTW", ect.

:rofl: Sorry, that one just made me laugh so much :laugh:

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I don't see the problem, although i wouldn't take the name offensively. If Microsoft get enough complaints about a name then they have to take action, you can't blame the company if people playing it have a problem with the name.

Also people complaining about it having a different meaning are just trying to be difficult, if I went around shouting out gay at people I don't think they would take it as me calling them 'happy'. (most probably, I would end up being beaten to a pulp as well)

ps. I'm not mixing up attention seeking names, and humorous names - I get a good chuckle out of some names that don't really cause any harm (Like McStabbyStabStab the rogue on WoW - Attention seeking for lol's, but not abusive to anyone). I wouldn't adopt a daft name, full stop, but I'm not saying eradicate every funny name as well.

:D lol

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