I worked on a map for a couple of week early summer of 2011. I just got on today and finished the decorations, (I just have to finish weapons and power ups.) When I went to save my Map titled “Outer Zone” It told me that was not allowed to display such filth online and it would appear as BLAM!. I need MODERATOR or MICROSOFT or 343 INDUSTRIES help here. I wasn’t looking to offend anybody, just make a map.
The person who manages the filter is absolutely incompetent. Among the so-called obscenities that it blocks are “epic”, “glitch”, “basic”, “poop”, “basement”, “puzzle”, and “mystery”. If I had to guess, I’d say the word “zone” is probably being blocked in your case.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing anyone here can do. Microsoft runs the filter, not 343 or Bungie, and Microsoft’s tech support doesn’t even seem to know about the filter’s existence.* Just be glad your gamertag doesn’t contain any of these horribly-unspeakable vulgarities – if it did, you would have to waste cash to change it, and you wouldn’t be able to upload anything until then.
Until this problem starts costing Microsoft money, they’re not going to give even half a crap, and they’re certainly not going to spend effort fixing it. If anything, this problem only makes them more money – the money they con out of people that are forced to abandon a perfectly innocent username, sometimes even if they’ve used it for years without any trouble.
- Like, seriously. Some peoples’ gamertags are flagged by this idiotically-mismanaged filter. They call Microsoft tech support, and the tech support refers the players to 343 because -Yoink!- doesn’t tell support about the filter. 343 doesn’t run the filter, so they send the players back to the brainless tech support. And round and round it goes, until the players are forced to give in and let themselves be conned out of their cash.
Wow. Microsoft needs to keep it’s act together. Has anybody started a petition? I agree with you, I am not out wright wronged like the way it wrongs gamertags. They fixed the xbox live auto-renewal shut off so you can do it on the browser instead of the phone.