The Very Important Announcement Thread Of Stuff That's Important But Kind Of Not...

Can I ask if a new account is made by someone and he chooses a username, do the mods check briefly if a username is offensive or not?

Maybe if usernames are checked by mods before the account is activated by someone then this type of situation won't happen again?

Has anyone got any proof that this is a racist term? It's all very well making indignant posts about how awful it is, but a quick internet search shows that horrie the wogdog is a famous military mascot and the fairy wogdog is a character in the novel Watership Down. The same word is also used on facebook and twitter without any apparent complaint and elsewhere on the internet too. Most people who have posted in this thread seem quite sure of themselves, so perhaps someone could explain to me how they are so positively sure it's a racist term.

Following trevor's lead, I've found the following accounts on twitter:

@wogdog
@wogdog11
@wogdog89
@wogdog420
@wogdog99
@wogdog1
@wogdog83
@wogdoge
@wogdogsR8
@_wogdog_
@wogdog2nv

I've also found the following names on facebook:

Wogdog
Waugla Wogdog
Efe Wogdog
The Big Wog Dog
WogDog's Absolute belters
Craig Wogdog
Marissa Wogdog Thermos
wogdog's brothel
Stephen Wogdog Sideras
Alex Wog Dog Dimitrievski
wogdog's house

As twitter and facebook have no problem with accounts using the word wogdog, and the same word is used as a username on many other sites too, can anyone offer a reason why it should not be allowed here?

(10-12-2012 22:46 )trevor format Wrote:  It's all very well making indignant posts about how awful it is, but a quick internet search shows that horrie the wogdog is a famous military mascot and the fairy wogdog is a character in the novel Watership Down.

A "quick internet search" (the third result on google) brings up this:


1. Wog Dog
A derogatory term used to identify and dishonour those of ethnic decent, residing in a mainly non ethnic population.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...=Wog%20Dog

And another "famous military mascot" was called "N*GGER", just because it was an acceptable name for a dog 50 plus years ago does not mean that it is not racist in the here and now.

(10-12-2012 23:39 )MONEY BANG Wrote:  1. Wog Dog
A derogatory term used to identify and dishonour those of ethnic decent, residing in a mainly non ethnic population.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...=Wog%20Dog

The Urban Dictionary has been ruled to be unreliable in the US as it includes user contributions and contributed definitions "do not always reflect generally accepted definitions for words and cannot be held to be reliable."

The U.S. Supreme Court said that "a reasonable mind would not accept the Urban Dictionary entries alone as adequate to support a conclusion" and that "while the Urban Dictionary might be an entertaining website about the English language it's not a reliable source."

(10-12-2012 23:59 )tony confederate Wrote:  The Urban Dictionary has been ruled to be unreliable in the US as it includes user contributions and contributed definitions "do not always reflect generally accepted definitions for words and cannot be held to be reliable."

Try this out, walk into an ethnically diverse area and shout "WOGDOG, WOGDOG!" and see if people are offended. You are losing the plot if you can't see that it causes offence.

All cool, the admin has made his feelings known, if WOGDOG is an acceptable name on twitter and facebook then he doesn't see why it is not ok here.

Over to you admin.

(10-12-2012 23:36 )admin Wrote:  Following trevor's lead, I've found the following accounts on twitter:

@wogdog
@wogdog11
@wogdog89
@wogdog420
@wogdog99
@wogdog1
@wogdog83
@wogdoge
@wogdogsR8
@_wogdog_
@wogdog2nv

I've also found the following names on facebook:

Wogdog
Waugla Wogdog
Efe Wogdog
The Big Wog Dog
WogDog's Absolute belters
Craig Wogdog
Marissa Wogdog Thermos
wogdog's brothel
Stephen Wogdog Sideras
Alex Wog Dog Dimitrievski
wogdog's house

As twitter and facebook have no problem with accounts using the word wogdog, and the same word is used as a username on many other sites too, can anyone offer a reason why it should not be allowed here?

As Twitter and Facebook are american doubt they would know what the term meant as the term has more to do with the indian sub continent its the same with Wanker wouldnt get away with broadcast in the Uk before the watershed but its been used in a episode of the simpsons. you know the saying we are 2 countries seperated by a common language

(10-12-2012 23:39 )MONEY BANG Wrote:  1. Wog Dog
A derogatory term used to identify and dishonour those of ethnic decent, residing in a mainly non ethnic population.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...=Wog%20Dog

I note that this Urban Dictionary definition was contributed by someone called ShannonJamesHopeCoolGuy69. It's his only contribution to the dictionary, so possibly not really an expert, and he offers no evidence in support of the definition. A different Urban Dictionary page claims that wogdog means rottweiler.

The word "wog" is racist. It's as insulting to a black man as being called a "nigger". So for me the username "wogdog" shouldn't be allowed.

The Truth said in his post " if your a person of colour, keep it to yourself" Sounds to me that someone has said something to him and its not just the user name he's annoyed about? He said a few weeks back that he was black.

Look up the word Wog instead of the whole word Wogdog.

I found this on wiki

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&e...3Ac2LJU81A