I understand TheGayGamer and his second try TheGayerGamer being banned from XBL but
this is just ridiculous.
"After that fuss t'other day when Xbox Live banned the gamertag TheGayerGamer, I wondered if this would happen; lo and behold it has. They've banned my gamertag too. What makes this funny is that my old tag is just my name — Gaywood is my surname, which they could easily verify from my Live profile etc. I can't decide if I'm amused or annoyed by this.
Thought you might like to note this in your coverage of the story. I'd suspect anyone with the string "gay" in their name is going to get a free new Gamertag soon. I haven't played much on public live servers of late, so I suspect this is more likely to be down to an automated script trawling the database rather than individual tags that have been complained about. So, where does this end? What if my home address is in Scunthorpe?"
Poor Richard Gaywood. I mean getting banned is bad enough but imagine the beatdowns this guy got growing up.
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Gay... wood...
BAH HA HA HA HA HA
They made him change it when it was his real name? That's gay...
HAHAHHAHAHAHA......richard.....what a crazy name
That's what he gets for having a gay name.
haha Dick Gaywood
His name was Dick Gay Wood. I can see it getting banned as per their new "no homos on Live" initiative, but they should cross check with account names to make sure this doesn't happen to people with sadly unfortunate names.
Since when have they decided that using the word "gay" in an XBL name is deemed worthy of banning? I mean if its in someone's actual birth name, then that is unfortunate for them, but what if someone actually wants the word "gay" in their XBL name? Then that's their decision - they should be prepared to possibly recieve grief from those immature people who use it as a term of offense. In fact, you could probably argue that Microsoft is being homophobic for enforcing a ban on a perfectly acceptable word, and for turning it into a taboo. Oh dear me.
microsoft hates gays.