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Microsoft gets tough on naughty gamer mottos

by Justin McElroy on Oct 12th 2007 4:30PM

Even though your "Bros b4 hos" Gamer Motto may be both poignant and accurate, you may want to rethink it if you plan on playing on Xbox Live this weekend. Savings sultan CheapyD warns that his account was suspended for around 24 hours for his seemingly innocuous motto of "Konichiwa, bitches!" Another user on the site got a similar punishment for "called the šhit þoop," which is probably a bit more fair.

As Cheapy points out, a warning probably would have been sufficient, instead of automatically suspending a paying customer's account. There's still no word on whether or not Van Halen fans will get similar punishment for using their mottos to celebrate For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.

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Tags: censorship, cheapyd, gamermottos, microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (76)

SMASH BROS. BEFORE HOS.

/pimp slap

Keep yo pimp hand strong brothers!

Right on, Kye. Gotta keep them hos in line.

Good tip. My username is funny but mildly (majorly)innappropriate and immature. I'll have to change it.

Yeah... mine too >_< to be honest I've kind of been waiting for a ban from the moment I signed up. All of my usual nick-names were taken... so I went for something highly inappropriate but phonetically spelled. Haven't been banned yet... but if they're actively hunting people now, my number's probably up soon...

mines not inappropriate but it almost sounds like it: klecker

I celebrate their entire catalog.

[and by entire, I mean everything with DLR and nothing else]

5150 owns you.

Hahaha.

"It's that damn poop again!"
"Don't put it out with your boots, Fred!"
"Don't tell me my business, devil woman!"

"It's that damn penguin again!"

FUCK censorship.

I don't know if should change mine,it's the Die hard catch phrase but since there wasn't enough space it only says yippy kay ey motherf..

Meh I will change it to "Silence,I kill you"

Good luck with that. Even the world "Kill" is blocked out. and replacing I and l with any of those weird symbols + a combo of them is also blocked. However K ill or something like that is not blocked. Stupid MS and stupid sensorship. I say just make XBL 18+ only, and get rid of all cesnsorship. We also wouldent have to deal with as many annoying kids this way

From the Xbox Live ToS:

"You must be at least 18 years old and have attained the age of majority in the province, state or country in which you live."

Whatever you do just please abandon the die hard catchphrase. It is to Live motto's feature what the ongoing pirate Vs ninjas debate is to the internet: Done to death and then let loose upon by five horny necrophiliacs.

I find it rather far off the mark they've blocked "kill" and several of its variations but I have someone on my list with a full on fly-in-your-face:

"I HATE FUCKIN YANKS!"

I'll keep with my "Hip to the jive" thanks all the same. Not insightful or funny but then it doesn't try to be. A bit like some of the people on my friends list come to that.

Oh internet censorship, when will you learn the folly of your ways?

The best user name i ever saw was Son of Oprah. I laughed so hard when i read that.

wait, what? I don't get it.

@Norm: Well, some people think of Oprah Winfrey as a mega-bitch...

So is baby rape a no go....?

Do Not Want

IT'S AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW RIGHT!

/4chan

I'm Chris Hanson with Dateline NBC. Please, have a seat...

What's going on in this thread?

Yay! Well, I'm torn. I'd prefer not to hear profanity, but banning for a first offense is rather harsh. On another not, Sony is changing their terms of service. It sounds like they may get more features into the online service, like game stats and pictures. Possibly home? It discussed uploading and stream content not being vulgar. Than again it could all be for singstar, lol. Its supposed to go into effect October 31.

Darn, on another NOTE, not 'not'.

Um... this isn't going to affect the volume of profanity you hear around xbox live, only people with profane slogans (you know, that bit that no one ever reads?)

*shots himself with stupid gun*

Its the keyboards fault, not mine. Please believe me. However, if I've made mistakes here, I vow to correct them no longer. Where's the edit button? Gosh

Hmmmm....Does this mean that I should change my motto from WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Because, y'know, it might influence some kid's impressionable mind, and tell him to go throw a steamroller on the kids and teachers in his school and use that as a battle cry.

^ ^
0

This doesn't bode well for my friend that created his GT back in 2004, Hot Scheisst.

I played Halo 3 with someone who's tag was "Chuck Gizzater" It took me a few seconds to get it but then I was laughing.

Uh oh my Halo 3 callsign is I69. I better watch out.

That's a damn lie, and you know it. You don't own an Xbox360, Mr. Sony Fanboy.

my halo 3 callsign is P33, they wouldn't let me have A55 or P00. and yes, shagi has a 360.

Mine is P33, too. *highfive*

Well mine is E99 as in...egg, haha oh I did have a laugh about that one.

*high five received*

pointless. Do these idiots from microsoft even listen to the way kids talk in multiplayer games? They are far more foul mouthed and racist than their seniors. For shame Middle america, for shame.

I highly doubt that kids in Honduras and Nicaragua have Xbox 360s.

i really hope you are kidding, defenestrator.

He said "Middle America." Middle = Central. Honduras and Nicaragua are in Central America, and I doubt that they can afford 360s.

And yes, I know what he's talking about, I'm just being an ass for the sake of being an ass. Look, let me put it this way: If I were really stupid enough to think that Honduras and Nicaragua are in North America, then would I REALLY know that Honduras and Nicaragua even existed?

tl:dr version: Yes I'm kidding.

Good.

Now get some voice chat logs and go to town on the rest of the community. Maybe I'll start plugging my headset back in.

I'm not surprised... Microsoft is kiddy

*ducks and runs

i really hope you are kidding defenestrator.

'bout what?

Never mind, I see now that it's just a mis-post.

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