"The username violates our guidelines"

Anonymous
2021-12-28T21:56:04+00:00

I tried commenting on an article for the first time today. When i went to sign up and agree to the terms a window said in red letters "The username violates our guidelines"...

my username is my first and last name so I don't understand why I'm seeing this. There is no option to dispute on screen https://account.microsoft.com/profile?ocid=msedgntp

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-06T20:03:13+00:00

    Hello, I am a Democrat and it is doing the same thing to me. I don't think it is an attack on your party choice. That being said I was wondering what else we all have in common with are accounts. People use their real name all the time so I don't think that is it. On the other hand my account is quite old, in fact it is a Hotmail account. I wonder if maybe that is it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-03T00:56:14+00:00

    This is literally the only way to get around this? Is this a bug or something?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-08T02:12:35+00:00

    All I see is this with absolutely now help in how to fix it. And this doesn't even make sense?

    "This is the name from your Microsoft account. It will appear next to any of your posts." Right? I assume my "Name" is supposed to be where that blank under my picture is? So it seems like it's blank? It seems like everything is filled out on my page. All I wanted to do was to like someone's comments. It shouldn't be this hard.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-09T21:11:48+00:00

    In addition you get that message before you can even comment, so how would they know if you are a conservative or liberal? Trying to say it is an attack on conservatives just sounds plain stupid to me. In addition, I see plenty of comments by both conservatives and liberals. Do you really think they stalk everyone to learn their views? Some very sophisticated programming going on there if they do. I read articles from both perspectives and have commented both ways before also. But Microsoft needs to get this fixed, I have found no way around it either.

    I've never been able to comment anywhere because "The username violates our guidelines". Changing my name to anything doesn't fix it. I'm a leftist, so they're not "censoring conservatives" with this, since I'm not one. I've never been able to express any viewpoint at all though, since I've never been allowed to comment on any news stories due to my "username" "violating" some guideline that seems to be just literally any name.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-05T02:29:42+00:00

    Thank you for posting back,I tried to find the rule of MSN's naming method,but I didn't get the appropriate answer.I think the first and last name should not be forbidden by the rule,maybe it's a bug and I also sent a feedback to MSN and ask them to make the naming rule clearly and repair the bug(if it is).

    Best Regards,

    Antonia | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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