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Theoretically speaking, you having to censor your own name says otherwise.
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My dwarf assbeard is still alive, I don’t take him out for drives much because someone will report, but he is my idea of free speech in a corporate video game.
Really?
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I’ve never heard of anyone getting a ban for a name, they typically just get flagged and can’t login without changing the name.
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I had that name since Vanilla and no one ever cared, I shared with you an example of what a friend has that is similar. It wasn’t offensive. I even asked the heavily censored Chat GPT now. It said it wasn’t offensive at all, and was likely an automated ban since it happened literally… 12 mins after making my character on classic.
Me either… was the first time I ever got banned. They must’ve changed the automated system now, if you get flagged for inappropriate name even if you’ve used it for years… ban.
No, you did not.
You were banned for repeat offenses. First is a forced name change.
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Yes, I did. We can do this all day, going back and forth meaninglessly. And even if I did, it’s subjective. I’ve never, ever made a purposefully offensive name like some people do with cursewords in it. Now, you can be brigaded and forced to name change for anything anyone is even remotely offended by. It makes no sense.
to you, someone else disagreed, Blizz agreed with the person who reported you and now here we are
I sadly know this to be true
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You don’t have to be intentional to be offensive. If someone reported your name, clearly someone thought it offensive.
Does not matter if its on purpose. Does not matter if Im offended by it personally or not.
Improper naming is against CoC.
For the record, yes. First offense is always a forced free name change. I had a mage with what I thought was a clever name. But it referenced an illegal profession, so I was force name changed.
I tried making a second Death Knight once named “Booberry” but it didn’t work because, well, you know…
Meanwhile, you can literally make a character named {Removed} without running afoul of their name filter. You’d probably get reported, but the fact that it slips past the goalie is revealing I think.
Ok so let’s play this out. I make a character with a name that is objectively not offensive. I’m being humorous or funny, etc. It’s self-expression, the way WoW has been historically. Now, jimbob runs along and doesn’t like the way I look. “ugly troll character gonna report you and get you banned” since the system is automated almost entirely, you get force renamed simply because someone didn’t like you. That’s a fair and functional system? How does that make any logical sense?
Exactly what I mean. I see players like that all over in classic and rarely in retail. But it’s unfair. My name was nothing even remotely that wild or offensive. It was silly and humorous. Why do I get a ban, but the person who is racist or offensive… you see them for weeks?
Let’s not.
What you think is funny or not offensive is obviously offensive to someone & you got busted. This isn’t the first time either, so no, I am not going to play a game of semantics with you
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The weird part is what some of us do not find defensive others may. I once had a warden named White wolf, all one word, and as it turns out, it was removed because of certain connotations surrounding a specific group of individuals. I eventually had to rename it white fang in reference to one of my favorite Jack London books. Offensive is perception not personal opinion. 
Pfffffffffffffffft
Both of you have been actioned before, that’s why. First offense is a forced name change.
And the name doesn’t have to offend someone to be against the rules. The name “Sylvanas” isn’t offensive but if it’s reported, they will get a forced name change for using a lore character’s name.
You did this to yourself so I don’t know why you came whining to us for sympathy. You played a stupid game and you won a stupid prize.
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just wrong memory. people got forced to rename. best example was kungen because it refers to as “king” in swedish. Players just had to open tickets to report these people not just rightclick.
If you speed through a stop sign in your neighborhood 800 times and no one in the neighborhood cares, does that mean that you’re not breaking the law?
When you get caught that 801st time, is it the cops fault? The neighbor’s faults? Or… your fault?
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I’m not sure why you feel the need to be so unnecessarily hostile to me. This is offensive and inappropriate behavior. I had this name for almost 2 decades across 5 different online games and never once got called out for it. You’re basically insulting me saying I was playing some kind of “game” when all I was doing was using my chosen name