The name graveyard

[Uaellaen]

If a name was allowed on Live, where they have a lot more rules regarding acceptable names, then common sense indicates the name should be allowed on P99, where the only rule is "it cannot be offensive".

No, just because no one ever reported you on live / never been seen by GMs on live, does not mean that your name was not against the policy, wich if you had the same name, 100% was against the policy ...

your approach is basicly "oh well, if they dont catch me robbing the bank, its no crime" ... wich is just LOL, dont even want to use the words that pop into my head for this ...


EDIT: and oh, they sayd multiple times now that there is a better wording for the rules in the making, and you probably did not notice:

NOTE: This is an older draft of the rules. When we switched forums somehow the new draft of rules was lost. We apologize for not having them up on the forums. Just something that kind of got forgotten/left behind during the move.

[SchadenFreude]

Originally Posted by Uaellaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No, just because no one ever reported you on live / never been seen by GMs on live, does not mean that your name was not against the policy, wich if you had the same name, 100% was against the policy ...

your approach is basicly "oh well, if they dont catch me robbing the bank, its no crime" ... wich is just LOL, dont even want to use the words that pop into my head for this ...


EDIT: and oh, they sayd multiple times now that there is a better wording for the rules in the making, and you probably did not notice:

I know my name was acceptable on Live because I petitioned and ASKED them when I created the character. I had been through this sort of hassle before. A character should not have to have twice as many vowels as constants to be "acceptable".

How the heck do you pronounce Uaellaen, anyway? How may syllables is that? Two? Three? Four? Six? Seriously, I have absolutely no idea how you pronounce that atrocity of vowels you consider to be a name. I am offended by your idiocy. QUICK! GUIDE! Change his name for being offensive!

[veldamirx]

Originally Posted by Uaellaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No, just because no one ever reported you on live / never been seen by GMs on live, does not mean that your name was not against the policy, wich if you had the same name, 100% was against the policy ...

I was Veldamirx Iz^Drunk... I had a GM rename me to Veldamirx Iz^Kinki. No one reported is right. The GM's didn't care as much as you think, unless someone reported it. I heard of very few name changes that weren't a result of a blatantly offensive name, or an in game arguement that resulted in petitions being thrown around.

[Xenephex]

Originally Posted by veldamirx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was Veldamirx Iz^Drunk... I had a GM rename me to Veldamirx Iz^Kinki. No one reported is right. The GM's didn't care as much as you think, unless someone reported it. I heard of very few name changes that weren't a result of a blatantly offensive name, or an in game arguement that resulted in petitions being thrown around.

I created my long time main on Test Server in about 2003; named him Ancient, which was intended to be an allusion to Ancient Pistol, a character in Henry V.

I logged in for the first time, and about 20 minutes later a GM told me my name was not allowed and changed it to Anciente (after some discussion). I'm pretty sure that was not the result of a petition, and I'm pretty sure it was not offensive; it just violated the letter of the naming conventions at the time.

So somewhere, sometime - there were GMs who cared (even though I disagreed with them).

[veldamirx]

Originally Posted by Xenephex [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I created my long time main on Test Server in about 2003; named him Ancient, which was intended to be an allusion to Ancient Pistol, a character in Henry V.

I logged in for the first time, and about 20 minutes later a GM told me my name was not allowed and changed it to Anciente (after some discussion). I'm pretty sure that was not the result of a petition, and I'm pretty sure it was not offensive; it just violated the letter of the naming conventions at the time.

So somewhere, sometime - there were GMs who cared (even though I disagreed with them).

Crazy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I stand corrected... I guess some where Gm's did care... Not on Nameless when I got the name change... lol :/

I think it was probably fairly arbitrary, and in 90% of the cases I think the name changes were fair.

[Uaellaen]

How the heck do you pronounce Uaellaen, anyway? How may syllables is that? Two? Three? Four? Six? Seriously, I have absolutely no idea how you pronounce that atrocity of vowels you consider to be a name. I am offended by your idiocy. QUICK! GUIDE! Change his name for being offensive!

Oh i know how to pronounce my name, thou i would not expect someone like you to be able to as well [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Barkingturtle]

Honestly, though, I think four vowels in a row is kind of offensive. It's just pornographic.

[Uaellaen]

I am glad i turn you on, i dont swing that way thou, keep it to your self =)

[Taxi]

Can we try to keep this thread clear from arguing, i honestly started this thread as a mean to be able to track who lost their names and what is their new one, not to troll or anything else. If you wanna discuss naming policy theres another thread for it.

[Beau]

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can we try to keep this thread clear from arguing, i honestly started this thread as a mean to be able to track who lost their names and what is their new one, not to troll or anything else. If you wanna discuss naming policy theres another thread for it.

I'm sorry but changing people's names when they are not offensive is just kind of ... well... dumb.

They were left alone in classic for a reason. It was a pointless waste of time to change them, especially after a player already reached certain hallmarks. So they were left alone, unless of course they were grossly offensive. To just change names in mass here because one person complained that they didn't fit their personal role play is ... well... dumb. Pointless would probably be a better word. But yeah I am curious what the new names are, since I will probably see changes for more than a few friends!