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Man's XBox Live Account Cancelled Due To His Surname
PetiePal | 3:34 PM on 05.21.2008 12 comments


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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11 comments | showing # 1 to 11
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MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 15:44
MrSadistic
lol......
007's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 15:45
007
lolol.....
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 15:53
king3vbo
Gay... wood...

BAH HA HA HA HA HA
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 16:04
blehman
They made him change it when it was his real name? That's gay...
wilbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 16:26
wilbo
HAHAHHAHAHAHA......richard.....what a crazy name
13thDragon's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 16:39
13thDragon
That's what he gets for having a gay name.
Atlas's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 17:05
Atlas
haha Dick Gaywood
B-Radicate's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 17:05
B-Radicate
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.
kepler's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 17:48
kepler
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.
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2008 18:03
Red TheHaze Veron
microsoft hates gays.
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