I wouldn’t name my character something like that either. My point is just because many people think the name is dumb should it be considered offensive and be removed? What about names with farts etc? I find it less appealing than a name with genitals, but does that mean I should be able to force people to change it if they wanted their character to be named that?
Probably because there are laws that require it. Although if you’ve ever been to a beach you can see just how much people are willing to shed.
Humor is subjective. Shaming people because of what they find funny isn’t going to make them change their opinion about the joke. Just make them avoid the people who do so because they are a buzz kill. I really don’t understand how someone can be so narcissistic as to think their opinion of my humor (or anyone’s but hey I still find fart jokes funny) matters at all. My best advise is they should get over themselves, the world doesn’t center around what they think is appropriate. If you don’t care for a joke walk away (I know I have with Amy Schumer.)
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Sounds like its your issue, not the people with those names.
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wtf i hate the english alphabet now
Sounds like a “first-world problems” category complaint. Normal players don’t care about something as trivial as this, they just ignore the player and move on with their day 
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What a depressing state of affairs.
Most of the time if a name makes it past the character creation screen the only way to get blizzard to force a name change is to get the person reported like 50+ times. The system is mostly automated and until it gets enough reports to upgrade it to be seen by a human nothing is going to be done.
Unless you can rally a large number of people to all make reports it is unlikely to be changed for quite awhile.
I am surprised that such a name made it past the character creation though, without a alt-code letter in there I would have expected abuser not to be allowed.
imagine if the name was something against men how fast it would get reported…hypocrites.
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i get that some people find some things humorous but i highly doubt i’d be wrong in suggesting that most people dont find vulgarity and crudeness funny. There used to be stand up comedy shows on tv all the time, but when the comedians started doing little more than swearing for the full routine it died off.
Most people dont find the bottom of the barrel to be entertaining. I believe the majority should be served. The minority can be as foul and crude as they like, in private.
PS those beaches you mentioned, they are sign posted AND they are not in the middle of every populated location. Maybe wow should have a crude and vulgar server where the few who have awful taste can play together with no cross realm.
still hiding in mailbox
Is the karen still there?
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Related to the part about nothing being done - I disagree. I saw someone named their character something terrible while doing the MOTHERLODE! dungeon, and I reported it. The player got disconnected and their name turned into Kidfu71G6KG0 or something while they were still in the group with us. I think that things are done about inappropriate names, but you need enough people reporting. My guess is that the person I encountered had quite a few reports. I don’t know if they were punished or not but they didn’t log back in while I was still in the group.
I believe they have a system for forcing renames. I believe that this system is automated with enough reports. I encourage you to report character names that you feel break the rules. This can be done by right clicking their name in chat or right clicking their character’s nameplate while you are targeting them.
I’ve seen guys in banana hammocks and woman wearing less than a victoria secret model. No signs needed to be posted.
The assertion that most people don’t find vulgarity or crudeness funny is an assertion that needs to be proven not just made.
Needless to say, this joke wouldn’t pack out comedy clubs today. However, it is striking that the earliest recorded joke is about toilet humour. The comic fixation with the crude, bodily and downright scatological is no modern invention, but instead is common in humour across cultures and time.
Bayless, now a director of folklore and public culture at the University of Oregon, has written a number of books on early comedy. She says, “the earliest jokes were dirty jokes. People couldn’t resist them.”
Flatulence, for example, is funny because it shows our “uncontrollable physicality”, says Anu Korhonen, a professor of cultural studies from the University of Helsinki in Finland.
Most participants, regardless of which scenario they read, judged the act to be both wrong (72 percent) and disgusting (94 percent). However, they were more amused by the harmless version (when the kitten enjoys the act) than the harmful one – 61 percent versus 28 percent, respectively
This study in fact disagrees by finding that 61 percent of people find a joke that goes against moral norms (one that there are very few things we as a society find worse) to be funny.
As far as comedians not being on TV that might be because TV is not watched all that often anymore. Now we have netflix and youtube. It doesn’t change the fact that the big name comedians did and still do (if they are not dead and still doing standups) crude and offensive humor. See George Carlin, Bill Burr, Brad Williams, Dennis Leary, Daniel Tosh, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K, Chris Rock, Daniel Sloss,
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This got flagged? Stay classy GD.
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People be going into online communities filled with random people who might be rude, toxic or even plane sight DeSGuSTanG™, but yet they still going into it and still eating that cactus.
You literally have the means to turn away. TO stop playing what you don’t like. To leave the guild, to at least talk to this dude and ask why he chose this name (maybe he is abusing his wife’s awesome cooking skills and eating all she making for him while raiding and they both proud of that and joke about that?)
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Why is OP post flagged? Got some wanna be tough guys who think abusing a wife is funny? smh
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Probably incel types who think a name about beating women is funny, yet if it was a name like “castratingmen” they’d report it and cry and cry.
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Meh Fuzzbutt is fine, and at least you showed restraint. You could have named your Vulpera Stinkbottom or some other nonsense lol
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Are you sure it was wifeabuser and not wifebeater?
That is actually a relatively common real life name, I’ve known multiple people with that last name. The origin has to do with rope-making. Not that that justifies people using it in WoW, but it does have a second non-offensive connotation.
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