Guild Wars 2

Anet please let me have my name, don’t want anything else, just my name. Thanks

sucks dosnt it, also named my warrior the same as my account name. was banned too.

compared to some of the names i seen that are not blocked yet by anet for what ever reason . this name is that bad compared to some of the account names i got on my blocked list have you thought about maybe trying hashbrown and cheese maybe ???:)

It’s because naming yourself after food and making people hungry is offensive.

Had to google that one for inappropriateness.

People making previously inoffensive names a sexual reference is the problem. (Not that I, or I bet, most people know of this new meaning). Once it’s there and reported, Support has to go by their rules.

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

There’s “hash” for a start. Drug reference even if it is becoming legal in places. They’ve always frowned on that.

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

Dr Hashbrown.7104:

Anet please let me have my name, don’t want anything else, just my name. Thanks

Could be because it’s the same as your account name. The error message is just a default “name not acceptable” message, and not have anything to do with being inappropriate.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

If urban dictionary is the reason then that’s just stupid. Urban Dictionary makes EVERYTHING inappropriate.

It’s like banning something because 4chan did it.

pdavis.8031:

Dr Hashbrown.7104:

Anet please let me have my name, don’t want anything else, just my name. Thanks

Could be because it’s the same as your account name. The error message is just a default “name not acceptable” message, and not have anything to do with being inappropriate.

That’s not it. On my main account my Mesmer’s name and my Display name are the same.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

Well, that’s a shame. And now that I’ve seen it it can’t be unseen Breakfast at Maccas won’t be the same.

What about Dr H?shbr?wn?

I think you can put those letters with dot(s) right? You can on the pet anyway.

Edit: OMG. This forum won’t let me type them lolololol

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

If urban dictionary is the reason then that’s just stupid. Urban Dictionary makes EVERYTHING inappropriate.

It’s like banning something because 4chan did it.

I agree that if that’s it, it’s stupid. I don’t think there are any checks to adding something to that site and just because someone put it there doesn’t mean it’s a commonly known or more than a short lived, local use of a term. I had to dig for that reference, and if it was well know it would have popped up faster.

He can try to contact support and contest it. But he’s probably not going to win, no matter how unlikely that reference is to be a real one.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

If urban dictionary is the reason then that’s just stupid. Urban Dictionary makes EVERYTHING inappropriate.

It’s like banning something because 4chan did it.

I agree that if that’s it, it’s stupid. I don’t think there are any checks to adding something to that site and just because someone put it there doesn’t mean it’s a commonly known or more than a short lived, local use of a term. I had to dig for that reference, and if it was well know it would have popped up faster.

He can try to contact support and contest it. But he’s probably not going to win, no matter how unlikely that reference is to be a real one.

Clearly its time to go to Urban Dictionary and add a few things. evil cackle

Sometimes I really hate this kitten.

OP, I understand your issue. I have a guildie that couldn’t use his character’s GW1 reserved name at launch. A character name he’d had for years, but due to the new filter, was no longer ‘appropriate.’ Despite the fact that its not an uncommon Asian last name.

Edit: Most likely, the issue with your name is that it contains “hash” which is a disallowed word. (It was the same issue with my guildie’s name.) I bet if you toss an additional ‘a’ in there (Haash) it would take it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

Every Urban Dictionary word has some inappropriate definition attached. You don’t wanna know what Zune is a euphemism for (spoiler alert: it’s only in the writer’s mind and was obviously trolling)

A friend of mine got “Tiny Mollestya” flagged as inapropiate. I really can´t understand the policy. What’s the logic?

Ardid.7203:

A friend of mine got “Tiny Mollestya” flagged as inapropiate. I really can´t understand the policy. What’s the logic?

Because it sounds like molest.

I actually managed to get away with the name “Jo the Mofo” for a few years before they found me and made me change my name. So why they wouldnt allow Dr Hashbrown is beyond me lol

Cuz Hash is slang for drugs and the world allows dumb things like that to steal normal words from the english language from us. Anything can be slang for something random so people need to stop caring and only censor serious cuss words, if any.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

saturn.4810:

What part of Dr Hashbrown is considered inappropriate?

Google the Urban Dictionary for hashbrown.

If urban dictionary is the reason then that’s just stupid. Urban Dictionary makes EVERYTHING inappropriate.

It’s like banning something because 4chan did it.

Like making Guild Wars 2 popular to begin with? It was /v who hyped this game to no end. And 4chan is intentionally inappropriate to scare away certain types of overly sensitive and educated people. You know the kid in class who’d report another kid for swearing or someone who wants everything changed to accommodate their tastes like wanting animes or video games sanitized and censored for “the children” (when I was “the children” I liked the cool gritty edgy stuff and felt cheated when I discovered so much good stuff was left out because of overly sensitive parents)? That is why 4Chan is inappropriate.

The problem with real life places is if you talk about certain things or use certain words you could be confronted on it instead of simply being able to ignore it. In places like work or school you can even get suspended or fired. I don’t even mean anything serious like the N-word (highest tier swear, I won’t write it out off principle but everyone knows the word anyway) but just for anything in a tier above just hell.

Thanks for the support guys, hopefully anet will do something about it

saturn.4810:

Ardid.7203:

A friend of mine got “Tiny Mollestya” flagged as inapropiate. I really can´t understand the policy. What’s the logic?

Because it sounds like molest.

I think they were being sarcastic.

Ardid.7203:

A friend of mine got “Tiny Mollestya” flagged as inapropiate. I really can´t understand the policy. What’s the logic?

That one clearly looks likes “Molest ya” as in, “Tiny is gonna molest ya.” If they were going for Mo-Les-Tie-Uh, then they should try alternate spellings. Molistuya for example.

Dr Hashbrown.7104:

Anet please let me have my name, don’t want anything else, just my name. Thanks

Regardless of what anyone here posts or what any of us think, only ANet has the power to change the original decision. The only way to get them to review is to file a ticket with Customer Service (follow the links to ‘support’ at the top left). Generally, decisions are more likely to be reversed through calm, thoughtful argument rather than emotional pleas or hyperbolic rhetoric, i.e. ask nicely.

As far as my personal opinion (which remember: doesn’t count at all): “hashbrown” to me is something I make for breakfast and that people confuse with “home fries”. However, there are plenty of innocuous-sounding terms that have a widespread, less family-friendly connotation and that might be the case here.

tl;dr ask ANet if they would kindly change their mind.

edit: foolish homophone

I wonder why it’s “inappropriate.” Only reason I could think of is that hash is also a type of marijuana form.

Anet’s a bit odd about words and names not allowed. In GW1 there was a mob or several mobs with part of their name blocked out.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/kitten ed_Cleric

Yeah, I’d guess it’s something to do with “hash” being a possible drug reference.

This all being said, I’ve had similarly weird experiences… I think a character I was trying to make a while back was called “Linna Speilsdottir” or something similar. I couldn’t think of any reason why this would come up as offensive.

I guess the system might try and detect “creative misspellings” of particular words, and considering the last has similar letters (p, e, i and s) to the proper term for male genitalia, maybe that’s what set it off?

^More likely the filter caught LSD.

is it a name of a food ……………….?

It’s a felony to impersonate a doctor, you know!

zenleto.6179:

There’s “hash” for a start. Drug reference even if it is becoming legal in places. They’ve always frowned on that.

Hash has many meanings, of which only one is bad. example: Hash (programming)

Also it seems like everything these days is either a drug reference or sexual.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

^More likely the filter caught LSD.

Ah yes! You’re probably right- can’t believe I overlooked that one :P

If someone at Anet saw your name and instantly thought of drugs, then we know what kind of folks are working at Anet…. The heck with Urban Dictionary too! You put it in Google and you get the correct answer which is a food.

DeWolfe.2174:

If someone at Anet saw your name and instantly thought of drugs, then we know what kind of folks are working at Anet…. The heck with Urban Dictionary too! You put it in Google and you get the correct answer which is a food.

It’s likely not a human evaluating character names in character creation.

The names go through a filter to make sure no offending words are present.

Besides, if “Hashbrown” was allowed yet “Hash” was not, I’m sure there would be similar instances where people would purposely use the allowed version to evade the filter and still use it in an obviously sinister way.

Some self-righteous numpty will have reported the name.
Speaking as a fellow Dr, I can only sympathise.

Any word can be used by anyone as a substitute for bad words. An urban dictionary should never be used as a measuring guide unless it’s a commonly used term, accepted and widely used by the general public.

Eventually, none of us will be able to speak without it being considered offensive to someone in some way.

Take the word kitty (kitten) for example. The innuendo (that word itself being such) should be obvious. No petting allowed.

Edit: Hmm…Cheeseburger. Now there’s a word that could be turned to the dark side (eww)… Very easy when you consider what it’s made of and we all know kittens and cheeseburgers go together (can haz?). But then that’s probably not common use. Probably isn’t even in a dictionary. But it could easily be abused for nefarious purposes, thereby destroying a popular cultural phenomenon.

i’m really suprised they made you change your name.

hashbrown is the tastiest most omnoming breakfast food there is, as others said, urban dictionary makes bad words out of everything.but I’m guessing whoever reported you didn’t have any clue what a hashbrown is and in their ignorance saw it as a drug reference.

if i were you op i would just keep appealing to CS until they see sense!

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

^More likely the filter caught LSD.

Ah yes! You’re probably right- can’t believe I overlooked that one :P

Yeah, that’s totally it. I remember someone trying to use “Owlsdottir” and having the same problem.

Um, food, what’s the problem here?
Also wish people including Anet would stop using urban dictionary as a credible source of information. Almost all of the words have definitions on that website that are deemed inappropriate content. If you take them seriously, what’s to stop trolls from putting any IGN into urban dictionary, then flagging the name to have it removed?

Actually I’m a little surprised about this one. I see far worse in game. To avoid issues, my new characters these days have been named using a Lovecraftian name generator. Seems to work well and they tend to be unique enough that I never have to worry about them being taken.

Personally, I think name changes should be free.

Loli Ruri.8307:

Um, food, what’s the problem here?
Also wish people including Anet would stop using urban dictionary as a credible source of information. Almost all of the words have definitions on that website that are deemed inappropriate content. If you take them seriously, what’s to stop trolls from putting any IGN into urban dictionary, then flagging the name to have it removed?

Where’s the official source that A-net use UD to ban names? I really doubt this is the case. Like I’ve already said, yeah, sure a “hashbrown” is a food item to breakfast-loving human beings, but “hash*****” is obviously a trigger for the non-human filter.

And to be honest I’m pleased that the filter is this unrelenting. There’s a pudding in Britain called “Spotted kitten” (kitten = duck with an i instead of a u). It’s a sponge-pudding filled with raisins (similar to Figgy Duff if you’ve heard of that). I mean, sure, that’s also a genuine food article, but I’m sure that somebody could use this in a non-innocent way.

Not to mention, the previous “kitten” can also be used as a genuine name, and is a popular shortening of the first-name “Richard”.

Tl;dr: My point is, there are lots of words that can be used in both innocent and foul ways. It’s best that the filter is this sensitive, because I’m sure that in such instances more people would use the words in explicit ways than not.

No one reported the name. The character creation naming filter disallowed it, likely because it contains the letters (together) of hash. Just as the character creation naming filter disallows words containing the letters (together) lsd, as in Owlsdottir, etc.

OP need only contact the CS Team.

Good luck.

The sad thing is if people didn’t want to impose their views of “morality” on others then others wouldn’t need to find creative ways of circumventing such filters just to communicate what they want. In Singleplayer RPGs it’s common for people to give their characters funny names. But why are such words “funny”? It is simply due to the fact that the words have a taboo nature and are the Kryptonite for the kinds of people that look down on us. Sure needless swearing is unwarranted but there is a certain cultural context between why people do so. I remember my parents not wanting me to swear, then I swore in class back in first grade to test if the taboo applied elsewhere…it did.

Hashbrown however is totally innocent from what I can see…and they’re delicious ^_^ Ever go to McDonald’s and have theirs? Yummy! :D

the name reminded me of yes the food for one and 2nd Dr Emit L Brown from back to the future second.