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Reddit user:"Sony Banned me for a common nickname in my culture."
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In English, in America. That doesn't take priority over all other languages and their use of the same sounds to mean entirely different things.
Look at the OP screeshot. Not the quoted one. I assume that the screenshot posted in Reddit. It has a clear approximation to "[email protected]". It is pretty clear. So much denial, now I'm wondering.
This is the most idiotic thing I've read from anyone on this board so far, so congrats?
I'm really quite surprised how many Era users have this mindset.
Wrong, the accent in the word "kike" is in the first syllable, so you shouldn't write it with an accent.
User Banned (5 days): Trolling over a series of posts.
Nice. Got a link?
Im sorry, as a mexican myself, let me tell you that expecting people, specially teenagers, gamers and users of the internet, to properly type with all the correct punctuation and accents is incredibly unrealistic and no one does it unless it's a formal communication in a work environment.
It's like expecting a teen girl to not write her texts like "r u ther hun?"
kiké?
but kike comes from enrique, if anything it would be kíke but due to gramar rules you just write the í as i
I'm quite mad some people here are like "fuck your feeling, Jews - we want to use this very specific nickname, even though it's a well recognized racial slur all over the internet" and then calling us insensitive and that we need to understand multi-culturalism. It's not like the word means dick it Bobb or something harmless - it's a very hateful racial slur and I think it's very understandable that Jewish people would never, ever want to encounter that word. Sorry for that Enriques, but I guess you'll just have to go with Queque or something online, very sorry for your great loss.
To make it clear: I'm not American. This is not an American slur.
To make it clear: I'm not American. This is not an American slur.
Well, yeah I do think it's too much work, especially for a cause that I just don't think is that important in the grand scheme of things. All good if you feel differently.
The 'just buy physical' strategy is working out just fine for me right now so I will stick with that. I'm using it in conjunction with 'don't buy from dodgy videogame retailers' strat.
Thanks for fighting for my digital rights though, good luck and please let us know how you get on!
It's not kiké. It's kike. No single Spanish speaker says "kiké"
Do you even speak Spanish?
That's an R. The typeset between the R and N aren't similar enough for you to have this much of a stick up your ass about it. The n takes up significantly more space; Unless you're going to go on about how the dude erased a chunk of his email address.
You're bonkers.
That would make it sound "ki-KÉ" instead of "KI-ke"
And of course I'm sure, Spanish is my native language.
i wouldn't have a problem if they apply this to english words with offensive meanings elsewhere. even english words with different meanings in english. if "bigdick" gets banned, well, sorry richard
uh ok
User Banned (1 week): Trolling, history of similar infractions.
But you don't understand. What is important is whether or not it is offensive to the glorious UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, aka the center of the world and the universe. Every decision every person in the world makes should be based on whether the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA would find it acceptable or not. If it's not acceptable for people in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA then fuck you go away and never come back. Who cares if it's offensive in India tho lol fucking irrelevant country they are not the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Anyway sorry about your loss lol sorry that's what you get for not having the opinion of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA constantly on the back of your mind lol fucking mexicans thinking they can make decisions based on their own culture haha lmao pathetic
I will say this once: Everyone who thinks the user here is wrong or at fault is being racist. Sorry if you don't like hearing that, but it's the truth. :^)
That makes no difference. Plenty of people spell it without the accent so I don't know who defined it as the one true way to spell the nick name. The assumption that the accent is the definer of what makes it a slur or not is silly. Particularly when not everybody has the means to type accents on words easily unless you have a Spanish auto correct for some word to give you a hand.
Hell I can't even remember how to write them regularly on windows. I think you need to type the letter then the ' symbol and press space.
Kike is a very common shortname to Enrique like Quique and Kiko. Its also used as a real name since a while ago, like many other "long" names have abbreviated forms also becoming born names (Anton for Antonio, Paco for Francisco, Alex for Alejandro...).
What accent? There's no accent in the name Kike.
No spanish-speaking country has anyone called Kike because of anti-semitism, its because its a normal name.
Wrong, there is no accentuation in the spanish word Kike because it would mean that that "ké" would be the predominant accentuated part of the word which is not the case. Kike in spanish has the strongest accentuation in the first part of the word (Kee), unlike french for example where accents change the pronunciation of the accentuated letter, in Spanish accents are there to point out what part of the word you should place the intonation. A word with no accents are implied to have the intonation on the first part of the word.
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okay i just googled it as "kiké" and it seems to only be used for Kiké Hernandez. He probably choose to spell his name like that (you can bend gramar rules for names).
But thats the only use i can find, generally its just Kike with the focus on the first syllabe which means no accent
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According to wikipedia
"His nickname is Kike (/ˈkiːkeɪ/ KEE-kay),[2][3] sometimes spelled Kiké during English-language television broadcasts to prevent it from being confused with a derogatory slurthat "
so the change in spelling is on purpose
Wait they banned his account and told him he could get it back maybe when name changing gets implemented? Man fuck Sony support.
Just to be clear, I was simply saying it's not against the rules, not commenting on or making any sort of implication regarding the post-exodus state of GAF. If you believe that's too lax and the site should be added to the URL blacklist, then by all means, contact an admin.
That's within the context of avoiding inter-forum drama. Linking to GAF is discouraged but not the point that it's disallowed entirely.
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Can I ask you to stop trying to guess this guy's email address? They've specifically blocked it out. Let's stop it.
So the only way to deal with a bad PSN name is to ban the entire account, blocking them from both online and nullifying all their purchases?
Did anyone with a brain participate in the design of PSN's infrastructure?
How are they decades behind XBL and Steam, both of which existed before PSN?
Why wasn't "kike" in a "banned words" list? It took until 2018 for Sony to discover a slur that has been around for decades/centuries?
Did anyone with a brain participate in the design of PSN's infrastructure?
How are they decades behind XBL and Steam, both of which existed before PSN?
Why wasn't "kike" in a "banned words" list? It took until 2018 for Sony to discover a slur that has been around for decades/centuries?
Basic Spanish grammar. Kike is a two syllables word. Since it doesn't have a title, the accent is in Ki. This is called a Palabra Grave. These kind of words only have a tilde if the word doesn't end in a vowel, n or s. In this case, word ends in e, so no tilde.
If the accent was in Ke, it would be Ké and that would be a Palabra Aguda.
100% positive.
It's actually insulting, you telling us we don't know how to spell our own names?
It's like wtf
User Banned (Permanent): inflammatory false equivalencies surrounding antisemitism; history of inappropriate comparisons
Tell someone in Spain to call you Kiké. They'll be laughting at you nonstop for hours
It's Kike.
Yeah, a name may not mean something to you, but for a lot of people does.
This can go on forever. We spanish have already admitted it IS a slur and out of here sure is wrong using it.
But we Kikes are kikes.
Do you imagine spanish fat people going agaisnt Bandai Namco for calling one of their characters Eddie GORDO?
No, we are not positive. Please enlighten us on how to speak our own language.
alright Im sorry guys, I made a mistake what I was remembering was specifically made to differentiate the slur and the nickname to eng speaking people, please stop the dog pile.
How words work depending on the language.
Was watching yesterday Castle in the Sky, and a particular place was called Laputa.
Needless to say, saying that in Spanish sounds so weird, especially since if you remove la, it becomes an offensive term. I wonder if they ever replaced that word in a Spanish dub.
No, just a troll trying to derail the thread with unrelated politics.
The Enrique guy himself was trying to post his Twitter post on Reddit earlier (to get it shared and noticed), but he couldn't because of Reddit limitations:
This is actually bullshit on the account of the sony support guy, because to my understanding they can change your name if it's offensive somehow (suck_my_dick or whatever) but not not offensive enough to warrant a ban.
So they sony guy was making shit up
Sony customer support is ass anyways. They banned me from chat support when I requested a refund for no man's sky. And it's not like I came in complaining, I've never been an ass to customer support and have always been professional and calm with every interaction since I know it isn't these people's fault. It's hilarious.
Kind of missed what was going on in that thread didn't you.
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