{"id":31227,"date":"2012-01-23T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31227"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:46:33","slug":"swotr-player-banned-because-bioware-doesnt-know-its-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31227-swotr-player-banned-because-bioware-doesnt-know-its-memes","title":{"rendered":"SWOTR player banned because BioWare doesn&#8217;t know its memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11869-BioWare\">BioWare<\/a> HQ, everything is serious business, which might explain why their forum mods don&#8217;t know about non-serious things like internet memes and permanently banned a user for posting one. That&#8217;s not just a forum ban, mind you, but also a ban from playing Star Wars: The Old Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s read the ban notice together.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You have received an infraction at STAR WARS: The Old Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reason: Terms of Service violation (Underage User)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your account was permanently suspended for violating the Star Wars: The Old Republic community Terms of Service, specifically being under 13 years of age.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Due to your statement on our forums that you are under 13 years of age, we have permanently suspended your account for violating our Terms of Service.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what was the offending post?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/im-twelve-years-old-and-what-is-this\" target=\"_blank\"><em>I&#8217;m 12 and what is this.<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously. Somebody was actually banned for posting a two-year old meme. Of course, that might be grounds for a permanent ban in itself, but that&#8217;s obviously not what happened here. Oh, BioWare, I bet Chuck Norris is going to bust your ass.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/bioware-is-clueless-banned-a-user-based-on-a-meme-220094.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">Destructoid<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WHAT-IS-THIS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31269\" title=\"WHAT IS THIS\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WHAT-IS-THIS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WHAT-IS-THIS.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WHAT-IS-THIS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/WHAT-IS-THIS-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this I don&#8217;t even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,171,427,1153,1494,1377],"class_list":["post-31227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-ban","tag-bioware","tag-fail","tag-star-wars","tag-the-old-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31265,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31227\/revisions\/31265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}