[2022] Add "1488" to the username badwords

Hey @Maisie

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, this is one I am aware of but I have passed this onto the team to work on getting it added to our censored terms!

Jeto (she/they) - Support Human

We take references to white supremicism, nazis and Hitler very seriously.
This is usually taken incredibly seriously by game studios in general.

Prior to working for IP2 I worked for a German game publisher and so I learnt a few things.
One of those things is that not only is neo-nazism and white supremecy disgusting (which we all already know obviously), but certain symbols, words and numbers and the way they are used can be literally ILLEGAL.

As a game that welcomes players from all backgrounds and as a company that does not tolerate racism we will not mess around with names that are clearly referring to nazis.

We are not apologetic to neo-nazis or any kind of racist, and we will not give them the benefit of the doubt. We have a hard stance on it. We are not apologetic about this stance.

We also offer our game to German speaking players who may be residing in Germany where, as I mentioned, some references are literally illegal in some contexts, so this is especially important.

My people, mark up is hard. We tested ALL sorts of combinations before pushing this live… we didn’t share a team code with a “1488” ID in it though because I wasn’t thinking of that.

I will see about getting this fixed, if it can’t be I’ll ask for ‘1488’ to be uncensored.

I am very happy that some people here have so little interaction with neo-nazis that they don’t realise that any time a gamer uses the numbers ‘1488’ in their game names they are always referring to nazis.

Let’s not defend it for the sake of other, more innocent things like discussions about Putin or American Presidents, or other historic dates and symbolism. There are some very straight forward references that are commonly used by neo-nazis, and almost never by anyone else in games, pop culture or the mass media and this is one of them.

If you didn’t already know that, I’m sorry you had to learn here
It’s a sad state of the world we live in when this stuff is still all around, including in a match 3 game.

Gotta pop in and remind everyone to please keep it civil