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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."
"Mais oui! The name of my village in France is indeed Goatse! We even have a... how you say... website!"
Trolling is a art,
Obviously they would Bing it
The summary stops a bit short... they already unsuspended him, the article even says so at the end.
He must have said he was from a Gay Fort....
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Now I've just rendered every post after mine redundant. Have at it, mods.
What's microsofts problem with stuff that's gay? Do they hate gay people?
You find mainly articles on this story now.
So, umm, how about Bangkok residents? Or folks from Palmer's Head? Or Fort Dix? Morehead? Red Lick? Boone's Blow? Phuk?
Sorry, but I've been on both sides of this issue, and as much as it feels like a violation of the user's freedom of speech, AUP (read: rights of the community) always trumps individual rights.
If the community does not want people to flame based on sexuality (actual or imagined), they have to clamp down on references to certain terms. If they allowed it, suddenly "you live at Fort Gay" would become the insult du jure to replace banned phrases like "you're a homo."
Microsoft sure pulled a boner this time.
And I find myself wondering just how many people will suddenly be registered as coming from Fort Gay, WV. Certainly more than the 800 people who live there, I imagine.
Never underestimate the potential of Human stupidity. -Heinlein
...a user from Fucking, Austria would have...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
LOLOLOL u so ghey that I heard you live at Fort Gay.
Well, that's gay.
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Maybe Microsoft needs to get aids to look up subscriber locations to ensure they're real?
Lets not forget Dildo Run, Newfoundland. Maybe Hell as well?
The same happened to my wife on some social network when we lived in Cumming, GA.
So a location based story about Microsoft can't get right the name of the city Microsoft is in? Ah, what a life being a /. editor must be.
Dildo; Newfoundland http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=21&jsv=274a&sll=47.573399,-53.558478&sspn=0.02018,0.044804&ie=UTF8&geocode=FeHa1QIdO8nO_A&split=0
Dildo and South Dildo can be found in Newfoundland not far from St. John's, hard by Dildo Bay. Sadly, the first church built in Dildo, in 1878, had no tower, though it should be noted that two stoves providing heat shared a long chimney.
South Dildo's claim to fame for many years was a life-size wooden humpback whale head.
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Almost as good as when my local paper reported on the football matchup between Virgin Valley HS and Beaver High: "Virgin Pounds Beaver".
What if he was from here.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Come on Microsoft. Banning someone for their city name is so... well.. GAY!
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Screwed if you live there
Virginville, Bird-In-Hand, Intercourse, Climax, Big Beaver... the list goes on
I Guess this explains the complete lack of Gaming , not far from me in Knob Lick, Missouri...
And Big Bone Lick is just next to beaver road!!! Hahahaha,
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Big+Bone+Lick,+Walton,+Boone,+Kentucky&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.871902,77.607422&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FUldUQIdasPy-g&split=0&hq=&hnear=Big+Bone+Lick&z=15
not while there's still 'enemIEs', no? if there's not a 'real' one, one can be made up with the leftover hate from the last. how gay does it get? enola gay eponentialized?
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boeing, boeing, gone.
I'd like all my British friends to light up a fag in honor of Microsoft.
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Doesn't say much about an IT company when they can't even figure out basic information technology tools, including their own:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=fort+gay
Bibo Ergo Sum.
You might not realize this, but your sig is hostile and transphobic, even if it is a quote by Carlin. It's inappropriate to refer to a trans woman as a 'transsexual guy'
Don't whip out your punishment too quickly. Oh, and always sleep on your back when you're stopping over in Fort Gay.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
However, the Microsoft representative was having none of the Fort Gay talk
I lol'd.
I live in Chicago. For some reason, Microsoft wouldn't let me update my city, because my "location contains a word of phrase that isn't allowed. Please try again."
But, I spelled it right... I'm so confused.
What if I'm from Climax Springs, MO 65324?
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?
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Big Bone Lick State Park (KY!) is located on Beaver Rd. No kidding.
Well, he could have been from Fucking, Austria.
Why is it that most of the people that I encounter seem to have been shat from the Sphincter of Mediocrity?
Wonder if Intercourse, PA has created any trouble for them.
Let me see, you worked both construction *and* demolition? Seems like a pretty smart way to keep permanently employed.
Sergeant: I can get you delayed entry, your own uniforms, grenades, and ammo. I can probably get you stationed over at Fort Dix.
Butthead: Fort Dix? Is that anywhere near Fort Nuts?
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.
Or from Intercourse, PA
Anyone traveling across the border may be familiar with Gaylord, Michigan. Canada has a lot of odd names if you google up "weirdest Canadian town names" and I'm sure every country has their own share of oddball names. For a company who created Bing Maps, you'd wonder why they would even have a problem with city names.
...I can only assume that gamers from Phuket, Thailand get the same treatment.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
If you were from Scunthorpe, it used to cause all sorts of problems here in the UK; Hotmail, AOL, AIM, ICQ... back in 1999 they all hated Scunthorpe.
Couldn't think why...
Would it kill them to add an e? Fort Gaye. That sounds real lol. And maybe even Big Bone Licke.
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I grew up near there and for awhile there was an area named 'Big Ugly' about an hour away. Not sure why they renamed it.
Fort Gay isn't all that far from Lovely and Beauty, KY either. People magazine did an article on the area back in the 90s and mentioned Fort Gay as well.
"Powers. I have them."
Big Bone Lick is actually a state park, not a town. "Home of North American Vertebrate Paleontology". A salt lick with mammoth bones, hence the name (even knowing this, I still laugh when I pass the sign...)
There are those from a nearby town though who can claim to be from Big Bone.
However, Big Bone Lick is right near Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash (yes, named after a food, and the town is famous for having a dog for a mayor).
All kinds of fun places here in Kentucky!
Sincerely,
Just down the road from Big Bone.
Microsoft did something incredibly stupid. Tell me something I don't know.
You think this is bad? Poor bastards in Fucking, Austria get banned from everything all the time.
Whoa, whoa! Slow down there, maestro. There's a New Mexico?
The travel company I work for just deleted Fucking, Austria from their database because they figured it was better not to offend someone than to allow them to travel there. The only way someone would have actually seen the name is if they searched for it, so it seems rather stupid, but I could imagine some complaining that they searched for Fucking and found what they searched for.
You would have been more correct saying Big Bone,KY
So, it is a feint and I don't have to parry, you had me worried for a moment.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Damn, so now if I hear about someone being the Gay Lord of Gayville, it may actually be about the mayor of a town in South Dakota. Spoilsport.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Mr. Richard Gaywood sends his regards. They've done this sort of thing before.
That's Big Beaver Road, exit 69, dude!
Okay, if you google Big Bone Lick State Park... you find the address is 3300 Beaver road. No, really!
The best story is when I worked for Windows Live Search a few years ago. Make a long story(which shouldn't have been long) short, some very big client was trying to run ads in Arkansas, Alaska...As this somehow did not quite compute, I showed my manager the map of United States, an atlas, and even the goddamn encyclopedia brittanica to illustrate that not only is there no town/ city in Alaska named Arkansas but that they were in fact 2 completely different states. I seriously got pulled into a 4hr long conference call to go over where on earth I could have possibly come up with this notion....
/true story
//fired 1 month later
//Bing wins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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This is simply ridiculous. If the place is real and he claims to be from there, there should have been no problem. It is not for Asshats at Microsoft to make judgements like this and then refuse any evidence to the contrary. I would be beyond pissed off. I would demand a written apology from Microsoft for the incident for both myself and the entire town of Ft. Gay.
I had a similar problem when I tried to sign up for hotmail years ago. It didn't like my last name - so I made one up, who gives if they had something in their TOS forbidding using a pseudonym.
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I ran into this problem when attempting to complete my XBOX Live profile - it didn't allow me to enter my location using my city of Tecumseh, MI; apparently I was attempting to allude to ejaculation by doing so. I even tried it Roman-style, with a "v" for the "u", but they denied that, too. My question is - how the heck did the guy manage to get it into his profile in the first place? My experience is that it denies you up-front as you attempt to save that entry in your profile. Did he just have it in there from before they implemented their censorship?
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...what they don't tell you on that site is that in Pennsylvania, you go through Intercourse to get to Paradise
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
My uncle hasn't had an easy life...
I've always thought of registering a nick in http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gay+head,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.643082,61.347656&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Gay+Head,+Dukes,+Massachusetts&ll=41.351557,-70.814781&spn=0.025514,0.05991&t=h&z=14&iwloc=A
Remember, you can't give offense, you can only take it.
has been taken away from us by the homosexual male community, IMHO. What about a lot of Christmas carols and the Flintstones theme song? They use "gay" in a non-sexual, happy context.
I think most people would agree that there's a significant difference between a predisposition (an addictive personality), which can be overcome... and gender identity issues.
No I don't think that most people would agree that there is a big difference. I would argue that those with gender identity issues are very similar to addicts and they likely could be "cured" in the same way by learning to live with their condition. However like addicts this would result in a lifelong struggle against the predisposition. Addicts do this because they have no choice: it's either resist or die. For those with gender identity issues the choice is resist or take hormones/surgery and deal with society's reaction....but given that reaction it is certainly not a choice I envy them.
Since changing your external genitalia has no impact on your ability to reproduce as that gender, disfiguring yourself this way is just psychotic.
Think it through. If you just want to wear dresses, go ahead and do it. Changing your genitals to match your screwed up head has no impact on anything.
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I wanted to see a sign welcoming me to the town, but none existed.
there was an old grain silo there, i guess that was sufficient.
When I was visiting friends in California, everyone thought I was a nudist when I told them that I liked to go fishing at Cummings Beach (Stamford, CT).
Arcadia University in Pennsylvania used to be called Beaver College. It doesn't mention this in the Wikipedia article but I recall newspaper articles at the time claiming that, because of web filtering software, High School students were having trouble accessing the college's web site for application and other enrollment information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_University
Ouch, he told *Microsoft* to Google it? He might have had better luck if he told them to Bing it, no?
But I used to ride past Dix and Gays all the time with the occasional jaunt to Brownstown, but I avoided it when I could.
It generally stank in the summer time heat, so I was happy to make it to Mound, (Effin' fuckin' ham) then to Paradise before landing in god awful
hamlet that is Gays.
http://tinyurl.com/2e56es9
... anyone from Scunthorpe?
I can not believe that when contacting MS directly with an actual person on the other line, that they would not take the time to review any maps (or streetmaps that THEY created) to check if what he was saying was true. Seriously, what duchebags.... I can't fathom how this company has not gone bankrupt yet.
Considering that there has been websites out there that have had the word "breast" censored from their site, even when that site was about breast cancer it really doesn't surprise me of the foolishness. I mean I have heard that my country's national animal the "Beaver" is banned in many places, because somehow people think a big swimming rat that builds things is lewd. Also considering the XBoxLive is largely populated by 12-14 year old douchebags, it doesn't surprise me at all.
MS not doing its homework, and then trying to stick by the decision is disappointing, but then again its Microsoft, what do you expect. Remember they tried to sue a guy called Mike Row about his website "MikeRowSoft", sometimes big corporations go off the rails and it takes a while before common sense can kick in.
Before everything was bookable from internet there were plenty of people who had problem spelling their name in their bad English..
R-U-O-K-O-L-A-H-T-I
Typical answer is: Yes, are you ok?
My hometown in Quebec, Canada is called Châteauguay, which is litterally "Gay Castle". I'd like to meet this guy on XBL and become his friend lol. We kinda share something special after all!
Microsoft Denmark has just informed the world that they simply love gay people.
I'm not gay, but if I was I would reconsider my sexual orientation... I'm simply not prepared for Microsofts love.
they will not even let me type Grapevine Texas in the location field, because Grape has rape in it. true story, when i bitched about it on the phone they were like "oh well".
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