The naming policy IS DUMB

[The Clowns Pocket]

Would I get booped if I named my ligger "Fucks-That-Ass" ?

yes

Then at WHAT POINT are ligger names "Too silly"? Because I thought X the Y names were okay, but now I am being told that this name is "Too hardcore for the ERP server"

Peanuts!

who made you this way

Oh but a name like "Ostrova of Nanotransen" is fine though

So "X of Y" names are fine, does that mean I can play as "Smith, Human of TGstation"

This name policy is stupid!

[somerandomguy]

Would I get booped if I named my ligger "Fucks-That-Ass" ?

yes

Then at WHAT POINT are ligger names "Too silly"? Because I thought X the Y names were okay, but now I am being told that this name is "Too hardcore for the ERP server"

Peanuts!

who made you this way

He was bitten by some radioactive poop.

snip

Oh but a name like "Ostrova of Nanotransen" is fine though

So "X of Y" names are fine, does that mean I can play as "Smith, Human of TGstation"

This name policy is stupid!

>capitalizing /tg/

[Shaps-cloud]

X of Y can totally work fine as long as you can come up with a good reason to justify it and don't put the server name in IC

[The Clowns Pocket]

Do Clown names need to follow the naming policy? I feel they should! We should not have some SNOWFLAKE running around the halls with names like "No No Word" or "Beat the Clown"! My immersion is ruined!

[Grazyn]

As I said elsewhere, IRL we see kids everyday with names that only 10 years ago would've have looked outrageously silly. SS13 takes place more than half a millennium from now. Who knows what kind of zany names will people have by then?

[somerandomguy]

As I said elsewhere, IRL we see kids everyday with names that only 10 years ago would've have looked outrageously silly. SS13 takes place more than half a millennium from now. Who knows what kind of zany names will people have by then?

[SpaceInaba]

my personal opinion is that if your name
1) aligns with lore
2) doesn't make multiple people cringe from reading it
3) has something to do with your gimmick (that is actually creative)
4) is actually a fucking name to some degree
it should be fine

also sidenote dumb post: ostrich of nanotechnology is a stupid fucking name because it's not a name it's a title, you wouldn't call your local security worker "JOHN OF WALMART" would you?

[Lazengann]

I would absolutely call a fat mall cop "JOHN OF WALMART"

[Arianya]

Would I get booped if I named my ligger "Fucks-That-Ass" ?

yes

Then at WHAT POINT are ligger names "Too silly"? Because I thought X the Y names were okay, but now I am being told that this name is "Too hardcore for the ERP server"

Peanuts!

who made you this way

Oh but a name like "Ostrova of Nanotransen" is fine though

So "X of Y" names are fine, does that mean I can play as "Smith, Human of TGstation"

This name policy is stupid!

much like your posting

[Nilons]

my personal opinion is that if your name
1) aligns with lore
2) doesn't make multiple people cringe from reading it
3) has something to do with your gimmick (that is actually creative)
4) is actually a fucking name to some degree
it should be fine

also sidenote dumb post: ostrich of nanotechnology is a stupid fucking name because it's not a name it's a title, you wouldn't call your local security worker "JOHN OF WALMART" would you?

ss13 =/= real life

you should know this

[D&B]

Either set a hardline or let us enjoy when the nepotism and favoritism run amok past their dark cloaks and stupid threads like these are made because of it.

[Shaps-cloud]

Sorry corporate adoption is sick lore and Ostrava stays

[SpaceInaba]

my personal opinion is that if your name
1) aligns with lore
2) doesn't make multiple people cringe from reading it
3) has something to do with your gimmick (that is actually creative)
4) is actually a fucking name to some degree
it should be fine

also sidenote dumb post: ostrich of nanotechnology is a stupid fucking name because it's not a name it's a title, you wouldn't call your local security worker "JOHN OF WALMART" would you?

ss13 =/= real life

you should know this

yeah ok orangutan of namibia

[SpaceInaba]

my single most favorite name of any character I've ever seen is "Adopted-For-Tax-Reasons" which is a human and it's hilarious to me

[DemonFiren]

my single most favorite name of any character I've ever seen is "Adopted-For-Tax-Reasons" which is a human and it's hilarious to me

reminds me of Raised-By-Lizards and Actually-A-Human

[EvilJackCarver]

I think I know what my next gimmick human name is going to be for a couple of rounds

[iamgoofball]

my single most favorite name of any character I've ever seen is "Adopted-For-Tax-Reasons" which is a human and it's hilarious to me

holy shit that's good

[Atlanta-Ned]

Sorry corporate adoption is sick lore and Ostrava stays

[MathFan]

When I was first born, I was different. I was more aerodynamic than the other babies. More slippery, too. When I left the womb, I came out flying. Apparently I was also bouncier than the other babies, because I then ricocheted off of the walls for what my parents recall as "a good five minutes." This of course left me horribly disfigured, as a baby should not suffer that many high velocity blunt impacts. My face was comparable to that of a bowl of mac n cheese, and still is to this day. I was undateable. Unfriendable, even. My face was so incredibly revolting that in a last ditch attempt to look cuter I decided to have genetically modified cat ears and a tail grown on me. However, I also happen to have suffered severe brain damage, which has caused me to become incredibly mentally deficient, and in my haze of stupidity I overlooked the fact that cat ears do not make the face look better. They do not even draw attention from the face. I have since suffered many hardships due to my various and incredibly revolting disabilities. If you asked what the hardest one was, though, I'd tell you it was when I started to get called Nyanaroni An'Cheese.

Glad you understand... This is the deep backstory I'm going for here, Nyanaroni DOES and always has suffered from crippling disabilities...

[MathFan]

Also

>2003

We know morty is 15

We know he used accounts like Futafan

2018-15=2003

Hello morty?

Don't know what you're getting at but my Byond username is intentionally VERY shitty including the "2003" thing

[SpaceInaba]

i hate your avatar so I hate you too sorry

[MathFan]

maybe they play a catgirl

maybe Mac is a boring name

It's supposed to be a non-pun.

[Digdugxx]

TFW someone actually tries to defend your degenerate ass old name

[oranges]

The entire problem of this policy was enumerated, it's not enforced by the majority of the admin team because (speaking personally) it's a horrible policy and I won't ruin peoples rounds just because they have a funky name. (Excluding those who name themselves hitler or stalin, like come on it's been done, although there’s' RP potential to play someone unfortunately named Hitler).

Only admins I ever see enforcing this are the "/tg/'s RP needs to be higher group" who are bananas god rest their souls

The headadmin team seem to realise this but don't appear to care, or only plan to double down which seems insane to me.

[Armhulen]

I'm ready to wrap this thread up but discussion is still underway so just complain for awhile longer until a decision is made ty

[Saegrimr]

The only thing worse than having a garbage name like nyanaroni or cup cake is trying to justify it with "BUT MY DEEP BACKSTORY WHERE MY PARENTS HATED ME..."

[The Clowns Pocket]

Yeah! Clearly our name policy isn't deep enough!

We should either force random names or have you fill out an ingame birth certificuit to play characters with names, and then INSTANT BAN players who dare step away from the name policy!

Then say that we let the name "Cup Cake" slide as a joke!

[OhChildflayer]

What about flypeople? We literally eat vomit, so I feel we should get extra slack on shitty names.

[CitrusGender]

The entire problem of this policy was enumerated, it's not enforced by the majority of the admin team because (speaking personally) it's a horrible policy and I won't ruin peoples rounds just because they have a funky name. (Excluding those who name themselves hitler or stalin, like come on it's been done, although there’s' RP potential to play someone unfortunately named Hitler).

Only admins I ever see enforcing this are the "/tg/'s RP needs to be higher group" who are bananas god rest their souls

The headadmin team seem to realise this but don't appear to care, or only plan to double down which seems insane to me.

Why would the man who says that headmins shouldn't step into policy that is enforced inconsistently say that?

You've literarly said before that headmins shouldn't step into policy because they will inevitably make inconsistently enforced policy.

[EvilJackCarver]

... we should get extra slack on shitty names.

Childflayer I swear to fuck

[CitrusGender]

This post was deleted by CitrusGender on Thu May 03, 2018 11:33 pm.
Reason: Come back and post whenever you want to post in good faith

[Cobby]

We offer a lot more flavors that aren't naming policy here at the /tg/ ice cream parlor...

[OhChildflayer]

... we should get extra slack on shitty names.

Childflayer I swear to fuck

[oranges]

The entire problem of this policy was enumerated, it's not enforced by the majority of the admin team because (speaking personally) it's a horrible policy and I won't ruin peoples rounds just because they have a funky name. (Excluding those who name themselves hitler or stalin, like come on it's been done, although there’s' RP potential to play someone unfortunately named Hitler).

Only admins I ever see enforcing this are the "/tg/'s RP needs to be higher group" who are bananas god rest their souls

The headadmin team seem to realise this but don't appear to care, or only plan to double down which seems insane to me.

Why would the man who says that headmins shouldn't step into policy that is enforced inconsistently say that?

You've literarly said before that headmins shouldn't step into policy because they will inevitably make inconsistently enforced policy.

The point you should have taken away from that discussion is that policy will never be consistently enforced because admins are only human, that is why it's very important to have a robust appeals process (which we do) and that trying to overly heavily handedly prescribe policy (like say the naming policy) will only cause trouble.

[Qbopper]

I still fail to see why Ostrava of Nanotrasen is a bad name, he could have gotten that by being some orphan who was corporately adopted by NT, is it just that one person didn't like it any everyone else piled on it?

But yes the name in the OP is pretty bad

it seems a bit egregious when pretty much every other person in the game tends to use a firstname lastname/verbs-the-noun and it sticks out

[OhChildflayer]

I still fail to see why Ostrava of Nanotrasen is a bad name, he could have gotten that by being some orphan who was corporately adopted by NT, is it just that one person didn't like it any everyone else piled on it?

But yes the name in the OP is pretty bad

it seems a bit egregious when pretty much every other person in the game tends to use a firstname lastname/verbs-the-noun and it sticks out

In all seriousness, who fucking cares? Honestly, if it sticks out, so what? I get why "Alecifnarlyoistarian Jasmeorlamphromatosis" is not OK. I get why "KILLALLTHEJEWS ALLTHETIME" is not OK. But, why does it matter if someone wants to be called Cup Cake, or Ham Burger? I'm really not trying to be an ass, but we're on a space station where wizards and shit are the norm, it just seems like this is needlessly splitting hairs.

[DemonFiren]

would you accept someone who calls himself PIZZA DOG (all caps included)?

point being, the problem is finding out the exact line between acceptable and unacceptable and the closer we get to it the more likely the thread is to devolve into shitposting
judging by the last few times this kind of thread has popped up usually initiated by people on the naming rules are for cucks side, presumably to leave the status quo unchanged

also I googled the more interesting name in your post on a whim

[OhChildflayer]

would you accept someone who calls himself PIZZA DOG (all caps included)?

point being, the problem is finding out the exact line between acceptable and unacceptable and the closer we get to it the more likely the thread is to devolve into shitposting
judging by the last few times this kind of thread has popped up usually initiated by people on the naming rules are for cucks side, presumably to leave the status quo unchanged

also I googled the more interesting name in your post on a whim

I don't care if someone names themselves PIZZA DOG. If I have to mention them over the radio, it takes almost zero extra effort to say their name. Side note: What about the more interesting name? Was it because it was mine?

[Grazyn]

Geez the line is really thin and rulings are inconsistent if admins are warning people named NYANARONI AN'CHEESE

It's all or nothing folks, don't dare call yourself Brad Wurst because there's zero tolerance for food names

also

Why do people immediately jump to "YEAH WELL ILL PLAY A GUY NAMED BIG FUCKING IDIOT IF YOU DONT MAKE STRICTER POLICY" every time one of these threads happens

[PKPenguin321]

would you accept someone who calls himself PIZZA DOG (all caps included)?

Pizza dog
Pizza dog
Put him in the oven and watch him grow

[bandit]

literally how hard is it to choose a name that sounds like a name and not an aol instant messenger handle

[D&B]

literally how hard is it to choose a name that sounds like a name and not an aol instant messenger handle

Sure, that's not hard. At what point do you guys define aol instant messenger handle?

[SpaceInaba]

It's all or nothing folks, don't dare call yourself Brad Wurst because there's zero tolerance for food names

this is bait right

[Grazyn]

Conchita Wurst is an actual name. It would get you banned on /tg/ if the zero policy folks had it their way.

How about admins use common sense instead of trying to regulate everything because otherwise some dimwit will join the server as TurboNigger69 to make a point?

[Dax Dupont]

Conchita Wurst is an actual name.

That's a drag queen stage name.

You're talking about Thomas Neuwirth.

[Grazyn]

Whatever, it's a first name last name and only the last name is a reference to food. The sexual innuendo is also lost if you don't play an actual bearded female character. Banning it because FOOD NAME as someone is suggesting here is some zero policy bullshit that shouldn't have a place on this server.

[SpaceInaba]

you remind me of op because your avatar sucks so I'm going to not respond to you anymore because you're dumb

[The Clowns Pocket]

And what about Clown Names? Sure, "DICKFARTPISS" shoulden't be allowed, but how about food names for clowns?

Or should clowns just use the randomly generated names?

[Alipheese]

Well shucks, seems we need a review of naming policy. But hopefully admins actually collaborate and speak with eachother and players to get an easy and defined policy.
Oh wait i tried that once and it was laughed at.

[WarbossLincoln]

I should change my name to Affirmative-Action-Hiree