Hi. I was wondering about the restricted words for usernames that is in place. The username I wanted to use was SuperOldSpice64, but it said I was using a restricted word. I changed the O in 'Old' to a 0, but that didn't seem to help. Apparently, it was the word 'Spice' that seemed to trigger the notifier and I don't understand why. Is the word spice blocked for a reason?
We've been checking this out and so far we can't see a reason SuperOldSpice64 should be restricted. I am currently researching this more to see what we can do to resolve it but it may take a while as the people I need to talk to are gone for the weekend and I am off Monday. I can try to figure this out by Tuesday afternoon if you are willing to hang tight for me.
Hello! I was able to chat with someone who has access to the criteria for flagging restrictions on usernames. It seems that what was getting flagged is an unintended slur in the username you wanted. Basically, "Spi" with a "c" (I can't spell it out here on the forum or it will also be flagged) is a racial slur against Latin people. I want to emphasize that we know this was purely unintentional so don't worry about that in any way! Buried in a username like that it even took US a while to figure out why it was flagged, we know you did not mean this to happen :-)
Unfortunately that also means there isn't any way we can make that username work. The criteria is hard coded into the system so there isn't a way they can set up the username while still bypassing the flag. They would have to actually remove the word "spi" plus "c" from the flagging criteria which wouldn't be a good idea for the forums overall.
The only thing I can suggest is to go with a different username or just do what you did and find a way to say the same thing with different characters (for example if you don't like the "1" in there maybe you could try "Spyce"). I know this isn't the best solution for you and I apologize for that.
It is not the word hell i did check it, it has to do something with the first part of the name. Anyway this is really lazy coding, why? Let's say we have Hell as restricted word. So the program found the restricted string which cannot be used, because of the rules, but hey, what about Hello, Michelle, etc. ? And there comes the lazy part. There are words which may contain restricted string. So once the word is flagged as containing the restricted part it should go through exception list, if the string is in bigger allowed words like Hello or Michelle and if it is, then unflag it. There are a lot of easy solutions how to do this. Not this particular one. Whoever was making that part of the program, was not thinking of possible problems and repairing this code is not that hard part, putting one more database of exceptions and contain it in a base code.
Anyway I wrote a support ticket and I am really curious about the answer.
Hello. I recently went to change my username to "Cyberenixx" as it is my online alias for everything. I at first thought it may be because the ending of "enix" is a reference to the company "Square Enix" and found the word the was blocked was "Cyber." I just wonder why cyber could possibly be a restricted word. If anyone could hellp me with this it would be great.