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by BoorishBears 1297 days ago
You seem to be confusing when two systems don't mutually support certain names due to technical limitations, with what happened here.

It's not a bug that a filter caught names that the merged companies now collectively do not allow in their collectively owned games.

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The only miss here is more of a UX issue: they handled username bans the same way they handled all bans, with a shadowban.

Shadowbans are great for most infractions since you burn some time of the offender before they start again and give them little information to find loopholes with... but for something rectifiable there should be a way to nudge and explain why they're banned.