So, apparently 'rainbow' is blocked by the Black Ops profanity filter?

[cairocat]

Just now, I decided to try out the new 'theater' mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops. I loaded up one of my better games and started to play around with the 'free camera' mode. It just so happened that my opening move was walking out into the Havana streets and getting shot in the face by a quickscoping sniper. Normally, this would just be a standard CoD-style frustrating death, but in Theater it is a wealth of humorous ragdoll facial animations. In this particular freeze-frame my character was staring up into the sky with a blank yet awestruck and slightly confused expression. This opportunity was not one to pass up, so I snapped a picture (it'll last longer) and tried to think of a name. Immediately, something came to mind that should make sense to all of you:

"Double Rainbow all the way! Woah..."

So, that's what I was going to call it. Conforming to max-characters, I painstakingly typed in 'Dbl Rainbow Reaction' into the 'title' bar and pressed start. This action greeted me with an odd error message: "Your title has been removed due to use of profanity". Confused, I went back Is Dbl slang for something? I wondered. Alas, Dubl Rainbow Reaction met me with the same results, as did Duble Rainbow, Double Rainbow, and Rainbow Reaction. Dumbfounded, I naturally went on The Escapist to post about it and ask others' opinions.

So, what gives with this? Ideas? Is Treyarch anti-weather?

TL;DR: WTF I can't name a file 'rainbow' or anything including that word. Help?

EDIT: And yes, I tried it with only 'whoaaa...' and it worked fine.

 

[AcacianLeaves]

I honestly can't think of any reason that Rainbow would be censored. I mean it could be associated with the gay community, but that's hardly a reason to excise the word from the game. Maybe they don't want people to talk about Rainbow Six?

 

[RatRace123]

RAINBOWS ARE GIRLY! And Call of Duty is rated M... FOR MANLY!!!

 

[Bon_Clay]

Jealous colourblind videogame developers? Maybe that would explain why games are all shades of brown and gray these days...

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Because they hate Tom Clancy. That is all.

 

[Kruxxor]

Because they hate Tom Clancy. That is all.

Chances are that Raziel is right, they don't want people saying "This is like Rainbow Six", just think, how much sense would it be if you said "This is like Six"

 

[Signa]

If you type Banana into your Xbox LIVE quote, it's fine. If you type Banana! or Banana1, it gets blocked.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Ehh, just like the word "Ass" is blocked from use for "profanity", yet "Arse" isn't.
So I don't have my normal Assault class on Black Ops like every other game, I have my "Arse-salt" class. Which it accepts.
Because an arse is less insulting than a donkey `,:\

 

[Blanko2]

If you type Banana into your Xbox LIVE quote, it's fine. If you type Banana! or Banana1, it gets blocked.

... that... what.. how..
*facepalm*

somewhat offtopic interjection: freelance astronauts Ustream chat: bacon is a ban word.
also: "hey, it's that dog" and several variations thereof.

 

[Ashcrexl]

i have a theory! RainBOw contains the letters BO and treyarch is afraid people will start insulting other players' personal hygiene!

what? like you could come up with anything better.

 

[MR T3D]

If you type Banana into your Xbox LIVE quote, it's fine. If you type Banana! or Banana1, it gets blocked.

because its anal (XBL disapproved word) with ban infront of it, just in a little !337speak.
"Rainbow" being blocked..... not so sure, maybe trey didn't want a million fileshares being "LOL double rainbow" and just being a pic of nuketown's skybox.

 

[Death God]

Double rainbow anyone?

OT: That is stupid design fault. I can't see anything wrong with it. Maybe it is a glitch or something.

 

[Signa]

If you type Banana into your Xbox LIVE quote, it's fine. If you type Banana! or Banana1, it gets blocked.

because its anal (XBL disapproved word) with ban infront of it, just in a little !337speak.
"Rainbow" being blocked..... not so sure, maybe trey didn't want a million fileshares being "LOL double rainbow" and just being a pic of nuketown's skybox.

NICE! I never noticed that. Well, try finding this logic in this one: "office." The only reasons I could see is if they don't want people using it to replace orifice, or because Microsoft Office is copyrighted somehow on their own gaming system...

 

[The_Splatterer]

Maybe they just have weird weird guidelines?
well my fellow gamer 'Fabio' couldn't put his name in his Xbox Live Name...