Guild Name Change

[MnaSidhe]

In the light of changes to MyDDO and the coming forum changes, I am posting this here so that I can link it in my Bio... so that I do not have to keep answering questions about it! I hope that the post survives!
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Posted On: March 26th, 2013
Posted By: MnaSidhe
Posted in: Uncategorized


I’ve had increasingly more questions about our guild name, and the name change (mentioned in my bio). This is probably because my TR-partner is pressuring/persuading me to do more grouping/pugging.

Well it went like this:

We were called “The gay hobbits”.
I wrote it in my character bio.
I noticed that the word “g a y” was censored.
I filed a ticket about it.
The GM that responded informed me that I had breached Turbine’s rules… and that he would change the guild name. I asked him to change it to “The Merry Hobbits”.

He wasn’t at all concerned that Tolkien himself described Hobbits as “a gay folk”. The GM was not at all concerned about what the word “g a y” actually means in the english language…
The GM was only concerned that the word G A Y would be connected with hate speech.

That is the story of the name change of my guild. It is actually my own fault.

[FranOhmsford]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7PIyIcCro

Song starts at 0.50 seconds.

The Last time that word meant what it used to mean!

[AlmGhandi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7PIyIcCro

Song starts at 0.50 seconds.

The Last time that word meant what it used to mean!

Still sucks getting our guild name changed because of this. However in the light of recent events... I can understand it, and sympathise.

[Tscheuss]

Still sucks getting our guild name changed because of this. However in the light of recent events... I can understand it, and sympathise.

This is what happens when we allow hateful people to redefine our language.

[AlmGhandi]

This is what happens when we allow hateful people to redefine our language.

I know.

I even wrote to Cordovan about it.

[JOTMON]

Still sucks getting our guild name changed because of this. However in the light of recent events... I can understand it, and sympathise.

Guess you got lucky, at least the GM was willing to change the name to something else you wanted..
Unlike many historical guilds that had their guild names force changed to something completely random then told the only way to have it changed to something else was to buy a guild name change from the DDO store.

[AlmGhandi]

Guess you got lucky, at least the GM was willing to change the name to something else you wanted.. ...

I got the impression he felt sorry for us.

[C-Dog]

Try talking about Oliver Twist, and the classic, iconic character of Fagan, one of the first "Thieves Guild" figures in modern literature! Yeah, see how that works in a lot of forums. :P

[Tscheuss]