Ever had this happen or did you report someone name in-game forcing him to change?
I will admit to something. One time I did TBC dungeon with my alt. One DK had a name to hard drug, he changed letter o to o’ and went with that name.
I reported that name, and the guy immediately DC. When he logged back he had different name.
It was kewl.
Yes, my DH’s name was Rileyraid in Legion and a guy in my guild who disliked me reported my name with several others so he can take it for himself. He managed to do it, i was forced to change it but i reported it and he got himself and those other dudes supsended for atleast 2 months.
Oh yes, this happened to me for the name Niggles.
A forced name change by players, not Blizzard, with a 1 second ban to kick me out.
Someone else then stole my name and Blizzard, after 5 tickets, said my name wasn’t against the rules but since someone else had it I couldn’t have it back.
I got an apology and a free tree pet, surely giving me a free Dottie would have been more appropriate.
D:
not fair.
Somebody report my name!
I got reported for naming a character Harjatan, which is a boss in game just I just really like how it sounds. I reported an “adolphHutler” or something similar yesterday.
kewl brother 
no. Not even when i have character with NPC name from wow, just in different language.
I have self reported names based on drugs and racial slurs. Have had guildie got on my way too. They bragged in guild chat that blizzard wouldnt get them because references were not in English. Well Blizzard takes on consideration population of realm it seems. That person had to name change despite slur not being in English.
Also other jester thought they can have a reference to sexual act in non English. Nope, no - that guy had to change name too.
I do not know if they’d change such names in all realms or just because particular realm having larger community speaking the language, but hey … least it worked.
asmond still have a gnome in classic named Freehongkong wierd his allowed to keep that name lolz
I’ve never been on the receiving end of a rename but I have reported inappropriate names.
i have a rp name becourse i play on RP server 
Nope I’m a good girl but I report names like no tomorrow. Usually incredibly disgusting ones.
Once reported someone for naming themselves after a part of the female anatomy (name started with a ‘V’ and ended with ‘gina’), reported the name and a few minutes later they DC’d and came back with a new name that started with an ‘L’ and ended with ‘bia’. Needless to say that got reported, anothe DC and we never saw them again.
oh yeah , years back i tried such names in my language. I actually was forced to name change rather quickly.
They are pretty quick with forcing name changes
i actually saw people named like that recently
My old name was Ladiescorpse on a female undead on an RP realm (Yes, I’m aware of grammatical errors). As I often chatted in trade channels in a similar fashion as I do here, I had quite a few people that disliked me.
Some of them decided to report my name, to which it was flagged for a name change around 3-4 times before I contacted a GM. The GM ruled that my name wasn’t a breach of RP naming rules, however I’m likely to upset the RP community if I keep it.
I politely told him that the RP community can go duck themselves and I kept my name. After that, any and all reports regarding that character’s name was immediately discarded.
…Too bad I faction changed that character, she’s Miylee now.
I myself don’t often report names, unless the player with the offensive name is being a prat.
In Rp realms I will report the dumb names like Pissman or Fartsniffer whatever.
Can’t a Deviant RP?! 
I grassed myself up once.
Made an Orc Affliction Warlock called “Aidsgiver” and used a boost on it.
Sobered up the next day and realised I couldn’t just delete it as I’d lose the boost.
So I grassed myself up via ticket and got a free name change
I’ve had characters called:
Cretin
Jerk (Druid that is featured in the story below)
And a variant of the word “abuse” in another language.
I think only “Jerk” gave me a ban within 24 hours because I was in Stranglethorn Vale ganking rebel camp for 4-5 hours on a weekend as a good geared resto druid at the time. 
Edit: I also taunted the quest givers in Rebel Camp onto me (this was in Legion) because in bear form you would sometimes get a free rejuvenation on you as a resto druid with a PvP talent.
Took the quest givers camping behind a tree in the mountain and went AFK for 2+ hours, came back at full health and a ton of Alliance players not being able to hand in quests.
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