#STORMFRONT Battlegroup (DUNE) is named after a racist hate group. Please change the name.

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boreal lintel
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The message below (with some edits) was sent to GPORTAL's helpdesk as well, but I'm not sure it will be handled appropriately so I thought to post here as well.

Hello,

The name of the STORMFRONT battlegroup should be changed. Several mambers of our server have pointed out that this battlegroup's name is the same as a notorious white-supremist group. STORMFRONT was one of the first hate websites on the internet, dating back to 1995. You can read about what I'm referring to here on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/stormfront/

This battle group was chosen for us to host our private server because we thought the name was "cool". At the time, we didn't know the name was associated with one of the most notorious hate groups in the United States unfortunately. Our guild community does not want to be associated with a racist, white supremist group either - but now we have many members that are approaching max level. We have many members of our Discord community that would also join, but they will not unless the name of our battle group is changed. This also may explain why the SF battlegroup has such a low population.

Can you please bring this to your managers and let them know?

If the name cannot be changed - can you please move our private server to another PvPvE battle group with a higher population?

I've been a customer for GPORTAL for a LONG time - hopefully that counts for something?

Thank you.

Southern Poverty Law Center
Stormfront

Created by former Alabama Klan boss and long-time white supremacist Don Black in 1995, Stormfront was the first major hate site on the Internet. Claiming more than 300,000 registered members as of May 2015 (though far fewer remain active), the site has been a very popular online forum for white nationalists and other racial extremists.

wooden ibex
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Hi! Thanks so much for bringing this to the forefront of our attention. I am forwarding this up the food chain

dapper lodgeBOT
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👷 Hi, it seems that the issue of this post is now resolved. Due to we've added the ✅ Solved post tag.

🔧 Edit: @boreal lintel has opened the post once again. Please let us and other members know why you still need help here.

boreal lintel
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Thanks - this is not "resolved"

lapis bison
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it is. as in it has been forwarded and will be looked at 🙂 appreciate you bringing this up to us, but i am closing this post

dapper lodgeBOT
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👷 Hi, it seems that the issue of this post is now resolved. Due to we've added the ✅ Solved post tag.

lapis bison
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no thanks for sending this over. we'll change the name!

boreal lintel
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OMG - that would be great. This is how you win loyalty from customers - thank you very much.

river shoal
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Stromfrontier then its still similar 👀 or im assuming all the sub servers would get a notice of the name change

signal root
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Thank you, greatly appreciate the name change.