Violate
Violation
Ravioli
Eta: oh, too many letters.
This would be my guess. After the usual “bad word” reason for ban, it’s usually because it’s the name of something in-game already.
EDIT: There’s been some GameFAQs posts on the same subject, and someone mentioned there’s a customer in the game named Violet.
You know what your daughter can do for the 3DS to not flag her name as offensive? Okay, tell her this. First, tell her to name her Mii Violet (and creator name, as well), secondly, remove the o’s in both the nickname and creator name, and lastly, go to the section labeled as “More” and use the o letters in said section. That’s basically it. Once you do that, then she can save, and it will not be flagged as offensive. Sound good? Try it.
You’re missing the point. The point isn’t that the French would find “violet” offensive because it has “viol” in it (we, of course, don’t, btw). It’s that the spell-checker registers “viol” as one of the forbidden words on its list and that’s as far as its tiny little silicon reflexion goes. It’s called the Scunthorpe Problem.
You know, considering some of the new posters we’ve had over the years, I kinda miss The Grapist.
So it stops some innoccuous names in order to block names like RapeXX.
Exactly.
What ever happened to the Grapist?
Unrelated to Nintendo, but potentially relevant subject matter: WoW’s profanity filter used to mask the word “grape.” Not sure if they still do, I turned my filter off long ago.
I would hope they resolved the problem 10 months ago and aren’t still waiting for an answer.
Also, Welcome to the World of …the SDMB.
The linked article says,
I was the billing systems development manager at Network Solutions at that time, and we called it the S-H-I-T problem. There were many Japanese site requests containing this string. Later the restriction was lifted.
One more thing. If you type in “Grape”, the offensive word message will not show because the word “rape” is only considered offensive if left alone, but if you said “rapist”, the offensive message will always show up, even if it was put with other stuff. Admit it, Nintendo (especially Iwata) is a complete jerk.
My son just ran into the Nintendo filter in Pokemon X. He tried to name a Bidoof “JustinBeaver” and it objected to the beaver part. Despite being in middle school he’d never encountered the slang definition in his 13 years and couldn’t figure out what was wrong until I told him.
We then proceed to try all sorts of obscenities and slurs. Most got blocked, but it would have allowed Pikajew. Granted “jew” by itself isn’t a slur, but it could easily be combined with other words into something offensive.
Heh. That reminds me of the prehistoric days when my kids were young and the first Nintendo was out. There was one game (possibly not Nintendo - but it was an old box) that allowed kids to enter commands at certain points in the game. If you entered a command it didn’t know, it would reply, “I don’t know how to _____.”
I heard giggling and went to check on them. They said that the first bad word had been entered in frustration when three tries at a command hadn’t worked.
Allegedly an actual text as processed by one of these filters
No, it’s not. The parent companies are Japanese, but both Nintendo of America and Natsume inc are separate, US-based entities with their own rules about what is and isn’t acceptable that aren’t the same as the Japanese divisions.
It’s just like with the word “basement”, to where it’s rejected, because of the “semen” part.
Um, just so you know, if you type those words, neither of them will get rejected.
My daughter did eventually try to name a chicken “Grape” and it was accepted. I don’t even think she’s playing this game anymore.
Does Pokemon still have the problem of not being able to trade certain non-nicknamed species of Pokemon because their names contain “naughty” words, like Froslass? Nintendo created species of Pokemon whose names violate their own rules.