Be Excellent To Each Other

I want to carry out a gamertag experiment. I want one person to register a new account with a new tag, with a name I will supply, and the other person to complain about it, then we'll see what happens. Anyone up for it?

If I can sign up for it on the LIVE website then I'm in. If I need my Xbox, then I'm out.

No, you'll both need to be on the Xbox and in the same game together, I don't want the complain to look suspicious -- it needs to be from a real game.

Then no, sorry. I can be available from 4, however. I'm sure you'll be sorted by then, though.

This sounds deeply suspicious.

I like it!
Sadly I can't help, as I am at work, and they have yet to allow me to play on my xbox at work.

Dimrill and Mr Dave are your best bets.

Ah, so you are the richardgaywood that was on Kotaku. I knew if I procrastinated long enough I wouldn't have to ask.

How many other people are going to be called Richard Gaywood on Xbox LIVE???

Duh

One doesn't like to presume.

It makes a pres out of you and me.

In fairness, whilst we talked about the article and name-banning on here, it was exclusively within the Call of Duty thread. Perhaps we should split it out for a wider audience?

Is the owt we can do to get you your name back?

Surely if thereismore complaints at the banning than at the name, they'll everse. Threaten to close accounts? Also, did they not teach Americans that GAy ever meant anyhting other than bumsexual, particularly as an adjective to describe a tree-coverd area pleasing to the senses?

Etymology, Uncle Sam, etymology.

/edit sorry for speling rushing towork

OMG WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT EARLIER????!?!111

Because you suck?

No, I was being sarcastic. Obviously my gentle prodding in that thread went unnoticed. Not that you'd have read it anyway, having 'moved on'.

Are we having a problem?

Also:
http://digg.com/xbox/Xbox_Live_Bans_A_G ... n_Gamertag
Goodness.

I really really despair at the state of the world when reading those comments. And listening to most people on live.

Crikey, those comments are beyond retarded.

Oh Noes!

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To be fair, nobody there has mentioned whelks yet.

This reminds me of the time that yahtzee said that the xbox community were a load of hooting dickholes. Seems accurate to me.

You're a self fulfilling prophecy when it comes to whelks, CUS. I think you've got a whelk problem.

I understand they don't have whelks in the US, though, so salvation may be at hand.

It still stings...

I wonder if "ISmokeFags" would be allowed as a Gamertag?

You've made El Reg, Richard!

Did they actually contact you, or did they just copy and paste your comment from elsewhere?

Only a forriner would talk like that, though. Are you an immigrant?

Mr Chris eyes AceAceBaby suspiciously over the top of his copy of the Telegraph

I emailed them last night. The Inquirer has just put it up too though -- once you get on three sites it becomes self-propagaing.

I'm still looking for volunteers for skullduggery.

Also, the Digg commenters are being a lot nicer than most of the Kotaku ones.

I'm around from 4ish, as I said previously. Give me a shout later.

Erm, I think someone missed the point a little!!

(We need a "whoosh" smilie)

Christ, what a cock.

Blimey, I've made the front page of Digg.

Yeah, I mentioned that this morning.

It pains me immensely that none of this is resulting in any kind of advertisement-revenue-related benefit for you.

I saw the link to the story, which was up from yesterday, but I didn't know it had made it to the front page.

Yeah, I pondered that yesterday before emailing all the news sites but I couldn't figure a moneymaking angle in.

If you work out a money-making angle, I demand to be cut in.

My friend in Australia heard of this over the XBMC RSS feed, whatever that is!

My surname is Wilcock, I wonder if that would get banned. Probably not. I'd probably have to be called Gaycock, or something.

Some geniuses at school, who are now either dolers or dead-enders came up with all kinds of hilarious permutations for my surname, hohoho. Less funny of course when I'm mashing their heads against an angle-grinder.

I don't know any 'Wilco' jokes.

Are you kidding? It has COCK in it! ho!

Actually it's what I like to do when people can't spell my name correctly. They try to spell it with an x, or an xs, or a cks at the end. So I usually just say 'Wilcock, as in, you know, COCK'.

Xbox Media Center I imagine, the all-codec-playback software for the original Xbox. Their site has a community news bit, it probably came out from there.

I was keeping track to various articles reporting on it but I've just lost track now, there are too many.

The RSS reader in Xbox Media Center is set up by default to slurp headlines from http://www.xbox-scene.com and display them in a scrolling ticker.

But are you making any CASH out of it? Notoriety is fine, but what about CASH?

You should marry Richard and both go double-barrelled.

With a simple change to my first name I could be RockHard Gay Wood Will Cock.

We can call our kids 'Twat' and 'Cunt'.

It's days like this that make me question how come "the Internet" is always listed as one of mankind's greatest inventions.