08-25-2007, 05:06 PM
Quote:E-mail to Blizzard Support:
kend.support@blizzard.com's reply:
Nuts. I guess it's dotBarnaby[WM] then...the whole interweb devolved a little today.
This change is not particularly recent. It was made because people were creating names that used special characters excessively, such as ]{i||er|}]{ (loosely, KillerDK). Responding to such names, and in particular trying to kick/ban such names, was a nuisance.