I tried putting the name on my Microsoft account as “FUCK MICROSOFT” but it said “Your name can’t include special characters.” changing it to “Fuck Microsoft” gave the same issue. Only when I made up a fake name did it accept it.

Not sure if this is a bug or if it blocks swear words. If anyone knows why it does this please leave a comment.

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I have some friends with the last name Raper. The oldest brother was able to make an account on Hotmail that was firstnamelastname@hotmail. A few years later I was with the middle brother when he tried to setup the same for himself but was told it had disallowed words. Although he used his middle initial C in the attempt which put “crap” in the username, I don’t think that was the disallowed word.