#14 - March 29, 2013, 4:40 p.m.
I don’t think ANet has the implemented tech to allow you to change the name of your guild. They, thus, have two options:
- Allow the guild to persist as-is in an offensive state
- Delete the guild
I can see why they chose option 2, honestly, as the burden is really on the guild players to make sure their guild name/tag follow the EULA.
Thank you for understanding and for explaining our options so clearly.
We had about 40 reported guilds. 21 were actioned, the worst offenders, names that truly, cannot remain in the game. Whatever the motivation to naming a guild for sexual acts, racist beliefs, hate mongering, etc., the fact is: Names cannot be filtered. So even the filter — which is not designed to give anyone a “License to Swear” — is not going to help people avoid seeing the most flagrant and offensive of names. (And I saw them all, and some of them were really, really bad.
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Flout: to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety. If you choose the flout the Naming Policy, the UA, and/or the Rules of Conduct, expect there to be consequences.
We love our players and our guilds, but we must uphold certain reasonable standards, for the very benefit of the players we care about.
