Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay
maclizard writes "The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live that Fort Gay was a real place, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the US Postal Service website for a ZIP code. I personally feel for those of you from Big Bone Lick, KY."
What's microsofts problem with stuff that's gay? Do they hate gay people?
Bullshit. The "community" and the "individual" have zero rights when it comes to this. Its microsoft's servers they can do whatever the hell they feel like with this. Now what they -can't- do is they can't not refund his money for putting down a legitimate town name because that is fraud.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Moore apparently wanted to show his Fort Gay pride
Fort Gay has been restored to the ramparts of Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.
Ok, you've got town pride - nothing wrong there. But insisting on displaying it on your Xbox Live profile?? Call of Duty? I mean now you're just asking to get flamed every time someone sees you're from "Fort Gay". It's not exactly the most tolerant community out there. **Note that I don't know if your town is displayed to other people when you're actually playing - but in case it isn't, then it still brings up the question of why care then? If no one gets to see your town in your profile then why care what your display is?
Global warming and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking number of pirates - Gospel of the FSM
Why is it inappropriate?
hate to break it to you buddy, but if it has both X and Y chromosomes, then it IS a guy.
That's right - "gay" has been used for "lame" for decades now. The problem is that it is *also* used to indicate homosexuality.
When I was a kid (five decades ago, sigh), "you suck" was specifically meant to say that you performed fellatio. It was a fighting insult. Today, "you suck" or "it sucks" just means generic unwanted badness, perhaps with emotional overtones. Perhaps someone will be able to articulate the present meaning better than I can. But it doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Society changes, And corporations, being by nature psychotic, have a heck of a time trying to keep up. Look at Apple; perfectly happy to have massively violent games, head-shots, guts spilling out... but sex is cause for censorship. Absolutely out of their minds in the American Gothic, Religio-repressive tradition.
I can see Microsoft's position here, in the same way that I can see politicians pretending to be religious. There's no idiotic depth sociopaths will refuse to plumb if they think it will buy them something of value. And corporations, by their very nature, are sociopaths - one consequence being that they typically embrace the values of a pit viper, while trying to present the face of an angel.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
dude, you should chill and stop being a jerk
That's why we rtfa, but I don't see the relevance of your post. The issue at hand is that they did not even bother checking BEFORE suspending his account, they refused to fix the issue despite multiple attempts to have them check the zip code, and it is extremely questionable whether the inclusion of the word in his profile even violated the code of conduct in any way. The fact that it took a manager to have some common sense and fix the issue a week later is as unacceptable as the rest.
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces. - PF
They still should have fixed it with the first communication. Each and every person that failed to check this should be fired. There are plenty of smarter people that want jobs. There's no reason Microsoft should be hiring dumb people.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
come on, i'm gay, and it made me chuckle.
uptight much ?
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
You might not realize this, but your post is overly sensitive and quite ridiculous, even if you did post AC. It's inappropriate to hijack a thread due to your sensitivity.
Now, piss off.
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
Yup, over-sensitive people should just learn to close their eyes rather than force everyone else to conform to their narrow world view.
But I must say, that picture is neither narrow nor a world view :P
...
For somebody who's so very sensitive to the plight of those with gender identity issues, you seem remarkably callous to those with a genetic disposition to alcoholism.
I love a good shemale bukkake scene as much as the next guy, but please, spare a little of that sensitivity for the alcoholics.
It's not an "in your face" thing - I'd much rather that they hadn't been such blabber-mouths. Just like it would have been nice to have been able to help someone on slashdot w/o being exposed - but it's all for the better. (at least that's what I keep telling myself :-)
I don't care what your gender is or was, but this whole section below marks you strongly as a sexist.
Of course, these same people couldn't do what we have to do to be ourselves - not for one day, never mind for a lifetime. Could you picture one of them even pretending to have "the talk" with one of their friends? Heck no! They'd volunteer to have their appendix removed without anesthesia first. That's "manly". Same as not asking for directions, leaving their dirty clothes on the floor, and not changing the toilet paper roll when they finish it - or leaving half a square neatly balanced on the roll so they can say they didn't "really" finish it. Come on you guys reading this, fess up, you do this all the time, and it bugs us that you think we're that stupid. It's 3-ply paper, and you leave a one-ply half square sitting there like an orphan, and you're hoping that when we open the door the draft won't blow away your sorry "excuse" for not changing it. You dissect the toilet paper, and then walk around all day making skid marks in your formerly-tidy-whiteys, rather than change the stupid roll of toilet paper.
None of those things are inherently male. They are all either signs of not giving a shit, or insecurity. I've know plenty of women that do the same thing.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...