"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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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-22T20:08:02+00:00

    No need to be hysterical. It's a bug. Microsoft does this all the time and ignores most bug reports. When they are too lazy to fix them, they just close the support request as "by design".

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T00:42:18+00:00

    Brand new account here and having the same issue

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T00:50:34+00:00

    I literally just stumbled on solving this for myself. I signed in on my phone in order to reply here. Told me my name was already in use and suggested adding the 835. So I did and it excepted my name in my mobile. So I signed out in my desk top. Signed back in and then edited my name to include the 835. Microsoft accepted.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T01:08:05+00:00

    I totally understand what you are saying. I only mentioned possible censorship because it is an actual (read: real) and ongoing issue among many mainstream forums and websites. Regardless of what some might say something that is proven fact is not a conspiracy theory. I brought it up because I felt there was a chance it was part of what was going on here. It was some other guy who then took that as an attack on them personally and gave the typical troll response.

    Regardless, I still haven't found a solution and have given up on Microsoft's news aggregation feature. Way too many options out there to have to deal with this (and also the Microsoft fanboy trolls...who knew?).

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